Listen to the NLM Director's Comments on Gum Disease and Marijuana. The transcript is also available.
Marijuana smoking was linked to serious gum disease in young adults for the first time in a study recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. A study of 903 young men and women from Dunedin, New Zealand suggests a serious loss of gum tissue is associated with (non-medical supervised) marijuana smoking irrespective of tobacco use and is unrelated to a person's dental plaque accumulation...
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[Source: What's New on MedlinePlus]
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