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*Regulatory approaches vary considerably around the world but in the UK and Europe, e-cigarettes are regulated as consumer or medicinal product, and their use is permitted. In the UK, e-cigarettes have increasingly been supported by public health institutions for smoking cessation as part of a Tobacco Harm Reduction strategy. | *Regulatory approaches vary considerably around the world but in the UK and Europe, e-cigarettes are regulated as consumer or medicinal product, and their use is permitted. In the UK, e-cigarettes have increasingly been supported by public health institutions for smoking cessation as part of a Tobacco Harm Reduction strategy. | ||
*The potential harms (including to oral health) from e-cigarette use are likely to be much less than from tobacco cigarettes. | *The potential harms (including to oral health) from e-cigarette use are likely to be much less than from tobacco cigarettes. | ||
===2022: [https://journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.1128/mbio.00075-22 Electronic Cigarette Use Promotes a Unique Periodontal Microbiome]=== | |||
*Our results demonstrate that the e-cig user’s subgingival microbiome is a unique amalgamation of microbiota, containing similarities to those of both conventional smokers and nonsmokers. Due to many shared features with the conventional smoker’s microbiome and considering the widespread promotion of e-cigarettes as a “healthier” alternative to or replacement for conventional cigarettes, our results show that e-cigarette use may promote a healthier SGP [subgingival plaque] microbiome with respect to that of smokers but not compared to that found with never smoking in the first place. | |||
===2021: [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8293737/ Electronic Cigarettes and Oral Health]=== | |||
*However, for smokers with existing oral diseases, the major benefits of quitting tobacco smoking are likely to outweigh any negative impacts from e-cigarette use, particularly over the short term. Hence, if a smoker is keen to use an e-cigarette as part of a quit attempt, we consider (according to currently available evidence) that they should not be discouraged from doing so based on oral health concerns. | |||
===2019: [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6888580/ Influence of Electronic Cigarettes on Selected Antibacterial Properties of Saliva]=== | ===2019: [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6888580/ Influence of Electronic Cigarettes on Selected Antibacterial Properties of Saliva]=== | ||
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