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Le_Canard
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Study Links Marijuana Smoking to Gum Disease
#7982975 - 02/05/08 02:58 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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By Will Dunham
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Smoking marijuana, much like smoking tobacco, may increase a person's risk for gum disease that can lead to tooth loss, researchers said on Tuesday.
A study of 903 New Zealanders found that people who smoked marijuana frequently had triple the risk for severe gum disease and a 60 percent higher risk for a milder form of it compared to people who did not smoke the drug, also called cannabis.
People who smoked marijuana less frequently had a smaller increased risk for gum disease, the researchers said.
Gum or periodontal disease is an infection of the tissues surrounding and supporting the teeth. In advanced stages, the gums and bone that support the teeth can become seriously damaged and the teeth can become loose, fall out or have to be removed.
"While it has been known for a few years that tobacco smoking is bad for the periodontal (gum) tissues, no one has investigated whether any other type of smoking is also a risk factor," W. Murray Thomson, a professor of dental public health at the University of Otago in New Zealand, said by e-mail.
"We suspected we would indeed find that cannabis smoking was a risk factor, but what surprised us was the strength of the relationship," added Thomson, who led the study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
His team tracked a group of people in Dunedin, New Zealand, since their births in 1972 and 1973. They were age 32 when the researchers identified the "strong association" between marijuana use and gum disease.
The researchers defined heavy marijuana users as those who reported smoking it an average of 41 or more times annually between ages 18 and 32 -- almost once a week.
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Chemy
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Re: Study Links Marijuana Smoking to Gum Disease *DELETED* [Re: Le_Canard]
#7982982 - 02/05/08 03:01 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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-------------------- Alcoholics Anonymous Narcotics Anonymous Get help, help is free and available 24/7/365. God bless you all and I hope you receive the help you need to turn away from your lives of sin. Mushrooms and drugs make you gay, you can reverse this homosexual condition with rehab, get help! Stop being gay!
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AnonymousRabbit
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#7982993 - 02/05/08 03:06 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Re: Study Links Marijuana Smoking to Gum Disease [Re: AnonymousRabbit]
#7983225 - 02/05/08 04:15 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Oh yeah, like "Cannabis smoke not found to increase risk of killing nuns/cancer/gum disease/global warming" is newsworthy.
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Re: Study Links Marijuana Smoking to Gum Disease [Re: Visionary Tools]
#7983391 - 02/05/08 05:00 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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haha i dont know about this one... i havnt had a cavity yet and have been smoking for years...
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Re: Study Links Marijuana Smoking to Gum Disease [Re: wortiesbo]
#7983700 - 02/05/08 06:05 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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that's such BS marijuana actually CURES gum disease bro!
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Le_Canard
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Re: Study Links Marijuana Smoking to Gum Disease [Re: AnonymousRabbit]
#7983932 - 02/05/08 06:58 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Yeah, the study is really too small to be conclusive, to be sure. And I wonder if they factored in simple poor oral hygiene too.
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burtonRebel


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Re: Study Links Marijuana Smoking to Gum Disease [Re: Le_Canard]
#7985096 - 02/05/08 11:03 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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heavy users are those who smoke 41 times anually? what about 41 times a week?
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Re: Study Links Marijuana Smoking to Gum Disease [Re: burtonRebel]
#7985698 - 02/06/08 06:36 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Its cause weed makes you lazy so you dont brush or visit dentists.
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