{"id":134,"date":"2012-04-06T11:07:36","date_gmt":"2012-04-06T11:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.woodcocklanedentalcare.co.uk\/news\/?p=134"},"modified":"2012-04-12T10:29:42","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T10:29:42","slug":"have-you-stopped-smoking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.woodcocklanedentalcare.co.uk\/news\/uncategorized\/have-you-stopped-smoking\/","title":{"rendered":"Have You Stopped Smoking in Stonehouse and Stroud?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you stop smoking on No Smoking Day?\u00a0 If you did, <strong><span style=\"color: #993366;\">WELL DONE<span style=\"color: #333333;\">.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">You&#8217;ll soon start to see and feel the benefits &#8211; healthwise and financial wise.\u00a0 If you didn&#8217;t manage to quit &#8211; don&#8217;t give up, try again; it really is worth it.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><!--more-->Smoking can mask the symptoms of gum disease.\u00a0 When you stop smoking you may notice your gums start to bleed.\u00a0 Healthy gums <strong>do not <\/strong>bleed.\u00a0 Bleeding gums are a sign of gum disease, which if left untreated may affect the jaw\u00a0bone\u00a0leading to teeth becoming loose and eventually tooth loss.\u00a0 Gum disease can be treated by you improving your tooth cleaning techniques and by our dental hygienist giving your teeth a professional descaling.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Our hygienist, Jackie, can also use a revolutionary piece of air powered equipment to quickly remove stains from your teeth that may have built up from tobacco use, tea\/coffee drinking, red wine etc.\u00a0 The Janina toothpaste we stock can also help to reduce this stain building up again.\u00a0 You may also like to talk to one of our dentists about tooth whitening.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">The best thing of all is that all the money you&#8217;ve saved by not smoking will pay for these treatments and you&#8217;ll have healthier gums, fresher breath and could keep your own teeth for life! In addition,\u00a0 you will also be reducing the risk of oral \/ mouth cancer and improve your general health.\u00a0 Whether or not you smoke, we always check your soft tissues (cheeks, lips, tongue, glands in the neck etc) for any early signs of mouth cancer at your routine check-ups.\u00a0 This is one of the reasons why we would recommend regular examinations, even if you don&#8217;t have any natural teeth.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Whatever stage you are at with quitting smoking we would encourage you to persevere &#8211; for a healthier and brighter\u00a0 smile and a healthier bank balance too!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you stop smoking on No Smoking Day?\u00a0 If you did, WELL DONE.\u00a0 You&#8217;ll soon start to see and feel the benefits &#8211; healthwise and financial wise.\u00a0 If you didn&#8217;t manage to quit &#8211; don&#8217;t give up, try again; it really is worth it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,31,28,30,23,32],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dentist","tag-gum-disease","tag-hygienist","tag-stonehouse","tag-stroud","tag-teeth"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodcocklanedentalcare.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodcocklanedentalcare.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodcocklanedentalcare.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodcocklanedentalcare.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodcocklanedentalcare.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodcocklanedentalcare.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodcocklanedentalcare.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions\/144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodcocklanedentalcare.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodcocklanedentalcare.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodcocklanedentalcare.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}