Role of smoking and its impact on periodontium

• Main Authors: Anshul Sawhney (Author), Megha Ralli (Author), Shishir Dhar (Author), Bharat Gupta (Author), Snehal Sunil Ghodke (Author), Shamika Purao (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Smoking is a major risk factor for increasing the prevalence and severity of periodontal destruction. Multiple cross-sectional and longitudinal studies have demonstrated that pocket depth, attachment loss, and alveolar bone loss are more prevalent and severe in patients who smoke as compared with no...