CLINICAL AND DENTAL SIGNS AND CHARACTERISTICS OF NICOTINE STOMATITIS IN SMOKERS.

 Smoking is a risk factor for the development of various dental diseases. The mucous membrane of the oral cavity, tongue, gums of a smoker is exposed to several unfavorable factors: high temperatures, irritating combustion products and toxic resins. Tobacco smoke contains about 200 harmful substances (43 carcinogenic), including carbon monoxide, soot, benzopyrene, hydrocyanic acid, arsenic, ammonia, radioactive elements, nicotine. Carbon monoxide, or carbon monoxide, binds the protein hemoglobin, the resulting carboxyhemoglobin is unable to carry oxygen, as a result of which tissue respiration processes are disrupted.