Oral Health

Nicotine constricts the blood vessels in your gum tissue, so smokers and vapers often stop bleeding - and read that as healthy gums. It is the opposite: the inflammation continues, the bone loss continues, and the warning sign has simply been switched off. Here is what smoking and vaping actually do to your gums, and what changes when you quit.

Tooth decay is not the main reason older Australians lose teeth. Gum disease is. How it takes teeth, and how to stop it.

Gum disease affects roughly half of Australian adults, and most do not know they have it. These are the seven signs worth acting on before it reaches the bone.