So I had my 6 month cleaning and such yesterday. Previously my dentist had told me that he could tell i was a smoker by the way the tissue inside my mouth looked (reddened palate, whitish inside the cheeks, whatever mysterious other things he knows). So when he checked me out yesterday, I asked him if I still looked like a smoker in my mouth (yeah that sounds strange). So he looks and looks and says that my palate is not red, there is no damaged tissue, nothing to indicate at all that I am a smoker, everything looks good (well except the cavity but I guess thats my own fault) and he really cant tell. He asked if i was still smoking so i told him i had been doing the e cigs for about 2 months now. (Then I had to explain to him what an e cig was because he had never heard of it.) He said that was really great, that the nicotine wasnt all that bad compared to the other stuff in a cigarette, and if i was not getting the tar and carcinogens that are in a cigarette, he was happy!
I havent been to a regular MD since i have started this BUT i was happy that my dentist could see no signs of smoking from his point of view!
I havent been to a regular MD since i have started this BUT i was happy that my dentist could see no signs of smoking from his point of view!
