Periodontal disease is difficult to successfully treat in any dental patient. One patient type that can be especially challenging is smokers. Smokers are up to 6X more likely to experience periodontal destruction compared to non-smokers And it's been long recognized that smoking impairs healing following non-surgical periodontal treatment.
A new study has found that smoking may pose yet another hurdle.
In patients with moderate-to-severe chronic periodontitis, researchers found that smokers consistently demonstrated lower levels of health-protective bacteria and significantly higher levels of disease-related bacteria below their gumlines. These included higher levels of the red complex Treponema and Tannerella species, which have been linked to more severe and refractory periodontitis.
This may help to explain why smokers are less responsive to scaling and root planing (SRP) alone, exhibiting smaller pocket depth reductions and fewer clinical gains resulting in deeper periodontal pockets.
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