ELECTRONIC SMOKING DEVICES: CHANGES CAUSED IN THE ORAL CAVITY

Abstract

The present article aims to address diseases associated with the continuous use of electronic smoking devices (DEF) in the oral cavity. A systematic research was carried out using the PubMed, Scielo and BVS databases. Twenty-four scientific articles were chosen in Portuguese and English, with a publication period comprising the years 2017 to 2022, using the descriptors: "smoking devices" "Electronic cigarette" and "nicotine". It is concluded that the electronic cigarettes (CE) affect several fields of the human body, causing pathologies that directly harm the respiratory, cardiovascular and gastrointestinal systems. Its chronic use is associated with acute nicotine poisoning and oral health disturbance, causing dysregulation in the microbiota, appearance of opportunistic diseases, lesions of the oral cavity, delayed healing and destruction of the structures that make up the protection periodontum. It is necessary to score the pathologies correlated with the usual practice of DEF, in so as to serve as a warning to the population, dentistry professionals and the scientific community.