The role of tobacco use on dental care and oral disease severity within community dental clinics in Japan

Conclusions: The association of smoking with type of dental care of CET and GPT severity would warrant the need for dental professionals to engage their patients smoking within clinical practice. The detrimental effects of smoking in dental care for smokers, as evidenced by the distribution of treatment and encounter and stage of treated disease, may not be clearly realized by dental professionals, unless the smoking status of all patients is identified.
Source: Tobacco Induced Diseases - Category: Global & Universal Authors: Source Type: research