Smoking Raises Root Canal Risk

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If the discolored teeth, ashtray smell and threat of emphysema and lung cancer aren't incentive enough to stop smoking cigarettes, here's one more: If you smoke, there's nearly double the risk of having a root canal than if you don't.

Those odds, reported during a briefing Thursday in New York by the American Dental and American Medical associations, are based on research at Boston's VA Healthcare System that tracked the dental health of more than 800 men over almost 30 years.

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