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Oral health consequences of smokeless tobacco use

Smokeless tobacco (SLT) use has many oral effects including oral cancer, leukoplakia and erythroplakia, oral submucous fibrosis (if mixed with areca nut), loss of periodontal support (recession) and staining of teeth and composite restorations. This review was aimed to provide information to identif...

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Autores principales: Muthukrishnan, Arvind, Warnakulasuriya, Saman
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6172921/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30264752
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijmr.IJMR_1793_17
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description Smokeless tobacco (SLT) use has many oral effects including oral cancer, leukoplakia and erythroplakia, oral submucous fibrosis (if mixed with areca nut), loss of periodontal support (recession) and staining of teeth and composite restorations. This review was aimed to provide information to identify oral lesions that occur due to the use of smokeless tobacco so that effective interventions can be undertaken to reduce morbidity and mortality from the use of SLT.
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spelling pubmed-61729212018-10-10 Oral health consequences of smokeless tobacco use Muthukrishnan, Arvind Warnakulasuriya, Saman Indian J Med Res Review Article Smokeless tobacco (SLT) use has many oral effects including oral cancer, leukoplakia and erythroplakia, oral submucous fibrosis (if mixed with areca nut), loss of periodontal support (recession) and staining of teeth and composite restorations. This review was aimed to provide information to identify oral lesions that occur due to the use of smokeless tobacco so that effective interventions can be undertaken to reduce morbidity and mortality from the use of SLT. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018-07 /pmc/articles/PMC6172921/ /pubmed/30264752 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijmr.IJMR_1793_17 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Indian Journal of Medical Research http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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