Question:
Oooooh, as I sat here tip-tapping away the T.V. news reported that
smoking causes gum disease. While they wrapped up the bit they showed
two elderly women smoking and eating at a diner.
Answer:
Those caps are anchored on tooth roots that are attached to your
jawbone and held in by the gums.
Get gum disease from smoking and those expensive caps are trash.
Sure! It's all "MAY" and "MIGHT".
But there's no doubt whatsoever
how badly Watson's teeth will be
damaged if they so much as even
touched a smoker's fist.
My favorite nanny/gum story is an acquaintance (not a friend) who has
the imaginary disease MCS, and everything else she's ever read or
heard about. She claims her dentist told her she had gum disease and
she flossed so hard she got carpal-tunnel syndrome.
So when I lose my teeth at the age of 65 or 70 it'll be because of
smoker's gum disease??????? Not old age, huh? Smoking 22 years and
counting. Nothing yet here.
Isn't gum disease caused by chewing gum? Gee, and all those years of NOT
chewing cause of that little misunderstanding...buy shares in Wrigley's,
cause I'm gonna CHEW....
At one point in my life I would have said "Really?", but after seeing the
posts here and experiencing some "second-hand-stupidity" in the real world,
I just gotta say "ROFLMAO"
loss of teeth doesn't have very much to do with dental care at
all. Dental care is mainly to prevent diseases. Loss of teeth in old
age is perfectly normal and no dentist is going to tell you anything
different. Plus, a lot depends on your genetics. If you have bad
teeth, you have bad teeth -- nothing you can do about it.
The increase in need for bloodstream Vitamin C (because, as with coffee,
stimulants increase the rate of excretion), for example, has NOTHING to do
with what happens in the mouth. And tooth and gum disease have been
prevalent without smoking, indicating that said "defenses" are actually
NOT much THERE, alt.bonehead. Sugars especially stimulate bacteria that
dissolve enamel, for example. And that's why they teach children to
brush.
