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Oral health effects of nicotine pouches in snus users: clinical and immunological findings.

Clinical oral investigations · Alizadehgharib S, Östberg AK, Lehrkinder A, Varghese J, Jabar TA, Ilver F, Lingström P · 2026-08-22

Switching to non-tobacco nicotine pouches reduced the severity of oral lesions in snus users after four weeks, though most inflammatory markers remained unchanged except for increased IL-8 in the dry formulation group.

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