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The researchers aren’t sure how ‘ smoking leads to increased hip i fractures or why only the hip bone is < vulnerable to smoking-related bone < loss. But they also discovered that persons who stop smoking — even later in life — limit their bone loss.
In a related study, also supported by the National Institute on Aging, dentists conducted comprehensive inhome oral examination of more than 1,000 New England adults aged 70 and over.
They found that smokers (who averaged 14 cigarettes a day) were at more than one and one half times greater risk for tooth loss than nonsmokers. Tooth decay and gum disease were also greater for smokers compared to nonsmokers; further the longer one smoked the greater risk of decay or disease.
For example, “20 years of tobacco use was associated with an approximate 20 percent increase in tooth loss and decay,” said Alan M. Jette, PT, PhD., the gerontologist who led the study.
Unfortunately, said Jette, the effects of long-term tobacco use on the oral cavity are not reversible — in other words, quitting smoking will not
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