Periodontal Status in Smokers and Never‐Smokers: Clinical Findings and Real‐Time Polymerase Chain Reaction Quantification of Putative Periodontal Pathogens

Abstract

Smoking seems to have a detrimental impact on the periodontal status and microbiological profile of patients with periodontitis. Compared to never-smokers, smokers had deeper pockets, greater periodontal destruction, and higher counts of some putative periodontal pathogens.