Volume : VII, Issue : VIII, August - 2018

TOBACCO AND ORAL HEALTH

Dr. Gaurav Pratap Singh, Dr. Jyothi C, Dr. Nidhi Pruthi, Dr. Devina Pradhan

Abstract :

Many kinds of tobacco are grown in the world with a variety of uses. Some of the most common types of tobacco preparations are bidis, cigarettes, cigars, E– cigarettes, hookah, pipe. Some of the smokeless forms are betal quid with tobacco are paan, creamy snuff, dry snuff, gutkha, gul, khaini, loose–leaf, mawa, mishri, moist–snuff, plug chewing tobacco etc. The nicotine in tobacco makes it addictive. Once smoked, chewed, or sniffed, nicotine goes into the bloodstream and body need increases. Tobacco causes lesions like leukoplakia, leukedema, nicotine stomatitis, oral squamous cell carcinoma etc. Therefore, a public health dentist should make an immense contribution in tobacco use cessation at the community level by various ways such as the following: by acting as a role model by not using tobacco or by quitting successfully, performing individual or group meetings periodically about the importance of tobacco cessation.

Keywords :

Tobacco   Oral health   Oral cancer  

Article: Download PDF    DOI : https://www.doi.org/10.36106/paripex  

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Dr. Gaurav Pratap Singh, Dr. Jyothi C, Dr. Nidhi Pruthi, Dr. Devina Pradhan, TOBACCO AND ORAL HEALTH, PARIPEX‾INDIAN JOURNAL OF RESEARCH : Volume-7 | Issue-8 | August-2018


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