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Attitude and Perception of Clinical Dental Students towards Tobacco Cessation Practice within their Dental Settings

Nadia Aziz Ather*, Sobia Bilal, Ashar Afaq and Jamal Azfar Khan

Corresponding Author: Nadia Aziz Ather, 54 Khayban-e- Ghazi phase 5 DHA Karachi, Pakistan.

Received: October 07, 2022 ;    Revised: October 14, 2022 ;    Accepted: October 17, 2022 ;   Available Online: November 08, 2022

Citation: Ather NA, Bilal S, Afaq A & Khan JA. (2022) Attitude and Perception of Clinical Dental Students towards Tobacco Cessation Practice within their Dental Settings. J Oral Health Dent Res, 2(2): 1-4.

Copyrights: ©2022 Ather NA, Bilal S, Afaq A & Khan JA. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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Background: Tobacco smoking is a major contributor to various health problems. Dentists can play their role as communicators regarding tobacco smoking cessation practice if they are well trained in this respect during their graduation years.

Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive study, carried out in August 2021. Clinical students from two dental colleges in Karachi, Pakistan, completed a structured questionnaire which inquired about demographics, tobacco use history, attitudes towards smoking cessation counseling.

Results: 146 clinical dental students took part in the study. Out of the total, 21.2% were males and 78.8% were females. Only 9.6% (n=14) were smokers, although 60.3% (n=88) were passive smokers. The majority (97.9%) agreed that dentists had a role in smoking cessation practice and 91.8% agreed that dentists should routinely advise patients on tobacco cessation. Although 86.3% of the students took the history of smoking, only 11% counseled about smoking cessation. Inadequate counseling training was the reason 54.8% participants did not counsel against smoking. Most participants (91.1%) had received no training for counseling about smoking cessation. 93.8% agreed that tobacco cessation techniques should be included in the dental curriculum.

Conclusion: Dental students and dentists can play a pivotal role in the community in advocating cigarette-smoking cessation. Formal training of undergraduate dental students should be implemented at the national level to enable them to educate and counsel their patients to stop smoking.

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