We have been hounded that smoking is hazardous to our health. It causes lung cancer, increases your heart rate and affects your oral health in a negative way. There are other health concerns that have not been advertised as heavily.
Smoke causes a decrease in bone density
One of which is a decrease in bone density and bone loss from smoke. The National Institute of Health Osteoporosis and Related Bone Diseases admits that it is hard to determine whether a decrease in bone density is due to smoking itself or to other risk factors common among smokers. For instance, smokers are thinner than non-smokers, drink more alcohol, may be less physically active and have poor diets. However, smoke does have a direct relationship with decreased bone density.
Cigarette smoke is tied to bone loss around titanium dental implants
There have been a couple of studies, however, that have tied the actual smoke to bone loss. The aluminum oxide blast surface treatment may increase the degree of bone-to-implant contact but cannot overcome the detrimental effect of tobacco smoke on bone around titanium implants according to the Department of Prosthodontics and Periodontics, Division of Periodontics at the Piracicaba Dental School in Brazil.
Smokers have poorer development with their spine and hips
The Centre for Bone and Arthritis Research, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Sweden states that men who start to smoke in young adulthood have poorer development of their areal bone mineral density at clinically important sites such as the spine and hip than nonsmokers, possibly due to augmented loss of trabecular density and impaired growth of cortical cross-sectional area.
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