Smoking, drinking alcohol can cause complete fillings

Using alcoholic drinks or smoking may not only damage your teeth but also lead to an increase in dental fillings, researchers warn.

Scientists at the University of Pittsburgh have shown that within two years after performing a dental procedure, filling is completely unsuccessful in patients who drink alcohol, while failure rates completely lie in smokers is higher.

Furthermore, those with differences in the matrix metalloproteinase (MMP2) gene - an enzyme found in teeth also showed significant relevance.

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This may be because the MMP2 gene reduces the link in filling the tooth surface, leading to a failure in fillings, the researchers said.

The results published in Frontiers in Medicine show that genetic analysis can help dentists treat their patients, which may lead to better results.

"A better understanding of personal health for dental disease and a change in treatment results will enable the dental field to make greater progress in the future", Alexandre Vieira, a researcher rescue said in a statement.

"In the future, genetic information can be used to personalize dental therapies and enhance therapeutic therapies," added Vieira.

For this study, a group of scientists from the US and Brazil analyzed the dental records of 807 patients.

Drinking lots of alcoholic liquids can harm your teeth for a variety of reasons, including the reappearance of early tooth decay.

Not only that, the researchers also tested whether new high-strength plastic composite fillings as well as traditional amalgam fillings have been used for more than 150 years and found in them also contain marine substances. mercury, toxic metals.

The researchers found that, overall, there were no major differences between amalgam or mixed fillings in the rate of failure.