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Dentists Want To See Studies On Pot-Cavity Link (Weed is rotting teeth alert)
CBS News ^
| October 17, 2014
Posted on 10/20/2014 7:32:29 AM PDT by Zakeet
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posted on
10/20/2014 7:32:29 AM PDT
by
Zakeet
To: Zakeet
Possibilities include:
- Pot -> Munchies -> Cavities
- Pot -> Weeweed up -> Failure to brush
- Pot -> bipolar -> Failure to brush some of the time
- Pot -> schitzophrenia -> Failure to brush by one or more personalities
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posted on
10/20/2014 7:36:16 AM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: Zakeet
Smoking anything will cause damage to your teeth. That's why dentists do not like smokers--the chemicals from the smoke can stain teeth and accelerate tooth decay. And the smoke can be from either tobacco or cannabis smoking.
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posted on
10/20/2014 7:36:23 AM PDT
by
RayChuang88
(FairTax: America's economic cure)
To: Zakeet
I think the coorelation is pot makes you too lazy to brush your teeth after all the junk you just ate.
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posted on
10/20/2014 7:36:49 AM PDT
by
BreezyDog
To: Zakeet
I hear it will also make your dick fall off and cause the appearance of the four horsemen of the apocalypse.
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posted on
10/20/2014 7:37:13 AM PDT
by
Minsc
To: Zakeet; All
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posted on
10/20/2014 7:37:49 AM PDT
by
musicman
(Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
To: Zakeet
LOL - great pic. This entire article is based on one "interview" with a dental hygienist.
The premise here is that once re-legalized there there will be throngs of otherwise responsible people bingeing on naughty vegetables. I do not see that happening. Is that how you spell binge ing?
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posted on
10/20/2014 7:38:05 AM PDT
by
corkoman
To: Zakeet
Weve been finding more cavities in our patients who are smoking more than a few times a week, dental hygienist Julie Baukus at LoDo Dental says.
I only speak for myself, but that has not been the case for me.
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posted on
10/20/2014 7:39:45 AM PDT
by
GSWarrior
To: Zakeet
One would think pot would case periodontal problems rather than tooth decay.
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posted on
10/20/2014 7:41:07 AM PDT
by
GSWarrior
To: DannyTN
I knew a guy who got ‘geographic tongue’ from smoking pot. The pot dried out his mouth and messed up the ‘ecology’ of the tongue, which became covered with a white, furry coating. Marijuana is like anything else - a mixture of good and bad. I suspect there is a lot of good yet to be discovered in the marijuana plant.
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posted on
10/20/2014 7:56:00 AM PDT
by
olepap
(Your old Pappy)
To: Zakeet
Utter BS. Brush and floss like one should and you’ll be fine.
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posted on
10/20/2014 7:58:19 AM PDT
by
dainbramaged
(Get out of my country now)
To: Minsc
“I hear it will also make your dick fall off and cause the appearance of the four horsemen of the apocalypse.”
LOL! Typically, when someone is smoking a lot of marijuana, they’re usually at a period in their life or they’re not very responsible. That means that they would likely not be brushing their teeth anyway. Once they grow up a bit, have jobs, kids of their own, and brushing there teeth like mad. Then they will only smoke pot once every couple months when they don’t have something pressing to do and the kids are not around.
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posted on
10/20/2014 8:02:08 AM PDT
by
WMarshal
(Free citizen, never a subject or a civilian)
To: olepap
Your story illustrates the main problem behind all this, dry mouth, which causes accelerated dental problems.
Dry mouth is mentioned in the linked article, and is a symptom of Sjogren’s disease also.
If you have dry mouth (not from smoking) consider the possibility that you may have Sjogren’s
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posted on
10/20/2014 8:02:18 AM PDT
by
Balding_Eagle
(If America falls, darkness will cover the earth for a thousand years.)
To: Zakeet
I fail to understand why the anti smoking Nazis haven't demonized pot smoking like they have tobacco. Pot obviously contains a soup of likely carcinogens that are deeply inhaled into the lungs. Pot certainly has second hand smoke effects not to mention all the mental issues with this drug. If cigarettes smoking according to the anti smoking crowd is killing little babies in their beds and filling our hospital beds certainly pot smoking must be as dangerous yet nothing is being said. I guess the liberal anti smoking Nazis are also hypocrites.
To: Zakeet
“who are smoking more than a few times a week”
Wow, that’s a lot of dope smoking! Probably not sober long enough for any kind of hygiene, much less teeth brushing.
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posted on
10/20/2014 8:26:33 AM PDT
by
catnipman
(Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
To: Zakeet
Dope fiends eat plenty of sweet “munchies” as their brains revert back to that of a five year old that likes candies and sweets. This is why they might get more cavities. From the sweets and funyuns and other crappy industrialized food they scarf down.
There is no hope in dope!
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posted on
10/20/2014 8:31:59 AM PDT
by
dennisw
(The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
To: Zakeet
When the mouth is completely dried out and then people are eating food on top that, it sticks in small areas between the teeth, so were definitely seeing more cavities between the teeth than just on the flat front surface or the flat back surface, Baukus said. In addition to recommending healthier foods for healthier mouths, dentists advise patients to use mouth spray or gum, which promote saliva on teeth.
Dentists are not on record as advising that pot be illegsl.
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posted on
10/20/2014 8:45:25 AM PDT
by
ConservingFreedom
(A goverrnment strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
To: Zakeet
Its just slacker behavior caused by chronic use pattern
An indirect relationship
I doubt cannaboids cause dental caries
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posted on
10/20/2014 8:49:09 AM PDT
by
wardaddy
To: Minsc
*I hear it will also make your dick fall off and cause the appearance of the four horsemen of the apocalypse*
Worse, it could Kill you!
: > )
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posted on
10/20/2014 9:21:03 AM PDT
by
Uversabound
(Our Military past and present: Our Highest example of Brotherhood of Man & Doing God's Will)
To: Uversabound
Worse, it could Kill you!If you smoked 240 joints in a row.
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posted on
10/20/2014 9:37:00 AM PDT
by
ConservingFreedom
(A goverrnment strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
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