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- Title
Tobacco: An overview.
- Authors
Thiruppathy, Manigandan; Kishore Kumar, S.; Amaladas, Julius; Pavani, D.
- Abstract
The aim of our review is to have a complete description of tobacco right from its origin, prevalence, composition, health hazards, and preventive measures. Tobacco is a well-known etiology for causing precancerous and cancerous diseases, which kills nearly 7 million people worldwide every year. In this review, we would like to brief the patterns and prevalence of tobacco use, forms and composition of tobacco use, health hazards of tobacco use, and tobacco control and preventive measures. As a dentist, we play a pivotal role in educating smokers and help them to withdraw their habits. It is essential for all the dentist to undergo a mandatory tobacco cessation training program to motivate the tobacco users to abstain themselves from their habits and to help the community as a whole in reducing the global disease burden. Tobacco causes addiction, cancer of the lung, larynx, oral cavity, pharynx, esophagus, stomach, pancreas, liver, kidney, urinary bladder and cervix, and myeloid leukemia. The oral effects of tobacco include discolorations of teeth and restorations, c/hairy tongue, reduced ability to taste and smell, smokers’ melanosis, smokers’ palate, dental caries, oral candidosis, increased failure rates for dental implants, periodontal disease, smokers’ white patch/leukoplakia, and oral cancer.
- Subjects
SMOKELESS tobacco; TOBACCO; DENTAL discoloration; NICOTINE addiction; MYELOID leukemia
- Publication
Drug Invention Today, 2019, Vol 12, Issue 3, p532
- ISSN
0975-7619
- Publication type
Article