SLOWER WOUND HEALING
A review of the existing studies on the relationship between smoking and wound healing done by the University Medical Center Utrecht show that, should smokers experience a bone fracture, they will need a significantly longer time to heal than non-smokers.
If surgery involving a network of blood vessels in which the blood vessels are a maximum of 100 microns in diameter is performed, smoking increases the percentage of postoperative complications. Wound infection, partial flap necrosis (death of tissue pulled aside for the purposes of surgery), and skin graft loss are the most common complications (Unfallchirurg. 2002 Jan;105(1):76-81).
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