Characteristics affecting oral pigmentation in passive smoker children

Background and Objective: smoking affects not only smokers themselves, but also the people around them. 700 million children are exposed to second hand tobacco worldwide. One of the adverse effects of being a passive smoker is oral pigmentation.Evaluating association between being a passive smoker and oral pigmentation.Materials and Methods: This is a historical cohort. 140 healthy children aged from 4 to 10 with the mean age of 6.68±1.60 years old (70 with a smoker parent and 70 without smoker parents) were examined for oral pigmentation. Environmental factors were evaluated by asking the parents to fill a questionnaire.Finding: There was a meaningful relationship between having a smoker parent and oral pigmentation (P-value=0.0001). spearman correlation showed parents duration of cigarette smoking and the number of cigarettes per day meaningfully affect the severity of oral pigmentation (R=0.329). The study did not find a statistical relationship between oral pigmentation in passive smoking and sex or house area.Conclusion: Children exposed to secondhand tobacco are at more risk for oral pigmentation. its severity depends on duration of cigarette smoking and the number of cigarettes per day.

کلیدواژه ها:

Oral health ، pigmentation ، passive smoking ، tobacco ، child