Often chewing areca harm is great

Ma Changfa Xie Zhimin Hunan university of Chinese medicine the first affiliated hospital dental

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        Some time ago, many of the people who love to chew betel nut saw an "man chewing areca addiction developing oral cancer, removal of almost half face" after the news of trepidation, but with a grain of salt, consult a doctor. There are many patients entered the hunan university of Chinese medicine the first affiliated hospital dental clinic, the history of the wise men, found that most of them love betel nut chewing, less an two packs a day, is virtually non-stop, even sleep night piece of betel nut is required. So that was caused by chewing areca and oral discomfort and disease called betel nut.

        Betel nut, mainly distributed in central Africa and south-east Asia, in China's hainan and Taiwan provinces cultivation more also. Eating betel nut has a long history in our country. Medical scientist in Ming dynasty li shizhen recorded in compendium of materia medica, betel nuts have edema, under the "accumulation, pain in joints, spleen", and many other diseases. Nowadays, people in hunan, the betel nut fruit products never strange shawl, smoke, describing it as a "joke". It's not daily between meals, but many men or festivals "best". You speak of betel nuts, is a love-hate relationship. Love is thick the laurel blossoms filled the air. In the betel nut oil taste, chewing in the mouth slightly drunk feeling, five elder brothers chewing while talk about happy, hate is from chewing betel nuts and a variety of oral health problems.

        According to clinical observation and the medical research that often chew betel nut do have very close relationship with oral diseases.

        Tooth stone: due to the production of betel nut its main ingredients contained in brine slaked lime, lime after chewing betel nut juice and fills the mouth, easy to calm formed on the surface of the teeth yellow or brown or film of dental calculus, affect the mouth the tissues healthy, and can cause individual breath is not fresh, the teeth is not white, affect social.

        Face deformation: areca nut is bigger, fiber hard; And by long-term chewing food, chewing muscles developed, cheeks bulging, characterized by facial deformation, such as the word face, frog gills, affect the appearance is beautiful.

        Tooth wear: chewing movement frequency, beyond the normal load, will cause excessive wear, make the front teeth cut edge and wear of tooth occlusal surface appear after chewing tooth essence or pulp exposure, food hot and cold food allergic teeth pain. Excessive wear or even split teeth or broken.

        Periodontal disease: betelnut fiber rough, sharp, easy to hurt your gums bleeding, after chewing residue jams teeth, oppression of teeth between the nipples. Over the long term, stimulate the periodontal membrane, gingivitis, periodontal disease resulting from the root exposures, etc, and even cause tooth is loose, fall off.

        Oral cavity mucous membrane disease: chew the main cause of oral submucous fibrosis (OSF), the world health organization (who) has the disease as a precancerous condition, clinical expression is burning sensation of the oral mucosa, dry mouth, taste loss, numbness in your lips, and stiffness of the oral mucosa a pale colour, limited mouth opening, difficulty swallowing, seriously affect the quality of life. Studies have shown that arecoline is contained in areca nut, can stimulate the oral mucosa fiber cells increased and the synthesis of collagen, promote the fibrosis of the oral mucosa and cause disease. It is important to note that arecoline with genetic toxicity, genetic gene exists the risk of damage. In addition, chewing betel nuts can also cause oral ulcer and oral leukoderma. Part which is precancerous lesions, can turn into cancer.

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