“…Extensive literature demonstrates that smokers have worse oral health, represented by a greater number of periodontal problems, a greater number of missing dental elements, higher prevalence of oral cancer, among other diseases (Pereira et al, 2014;Dietrich et al, 2007;Ahsan et al, 2020;Alves et al, 2017;Lopes et al, 2021;Santos et al, 2022), which partially corroborates the findings of this study, since it identified, for example, a worse periodontal condition among smokers.…”