Wafa Ainul Fikri Handayani  

Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universitas Muhammadiyah Bandung, Indonesia  

Luthfia Hastiani Muharram 

Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universitas Muhammadiyah Bandung, Indonesia 

Haryanto  

Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universitas Muhammadiyah Bandung, Indonesia 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.19184/stoma.v22i1.53700

ABSTRACT 

Concerns are emerging that young female may get dental and oral illnesses as a result of Bandung City's growing female smoking population. Numerous studies have demonstrated that smoking cigarettes can harm a variety of organs, and that female are more susceptible than men. This study aims to determine the difference in gum morphology, calculate the percentage of buccal mucosal epithelial cell abnormalities, and compare cytometric buccal mucosal epithelial cells in female smokers and nonsmokers. The subjects of this study were 60 females with the sampling technique used being purposive sampling type. The criteria of the respondents were female aged 17-25 years who were not fasting and were not sick in the oral cavity. The number of respondents consisted of 30 smokers and 30 non-smokers. The results showed that 36.67% of smokers who experienced smoker's melanosis with a prevalence of 20% experienced single pigmentation and 16.67% experienced widespread pigmentation. The results showed that the percentage of buccal mucosal epithelial cell abnormality in smokers was 12.2%, and the percentage of buccal mucosal epithelial cell abnormality in nonsmokers was 3.5%. In conclusion, the morphology of the gums in smokers is that smoker’s melanosis (darker pigmentation). Abnormalities of buccal mucosal epithelial cells in smoking and non-smoking female were significantly different (p < 0.05). Then there is a significant difference between cytometric buccal mucosal epithelial cells in female smokers and nonsmokers in the parameters of cell diameter and cell area. These findings suggest that smoking habits may negatively impact the health of the buccal mucosa in female.