ABSTRACT

BACKGROUND: Tobacco use is one of the most prevalent forms of deleterious habits, associated with ill health in individuals. Smoking and chewing smokeless tobacco are considered to be significant risk factors for the development of oral cancer, premalignant lesions such as leukoplakia, and other lesions that include smoker’s melanosis, nicotinic stomatitis and non scrapable white lesions. AIM Hence the current retrospective analysis was done to assess the trends and frequency in relation to smokeless and smoking forms of tobacco. MATERIALS AND METHOD This hospital-based retrospective study from June 2019 - June 2020. A total of 86000 case records were reviewed and constricted to 100 samples. All the patients with the history of cigarette and smokeless tobacco habits were included in the study. The data included the patient's demographic details, the type of habit, duration, frequency, and the associated oral mucosal pathology. Data was analysed using SPSS software. RESULTS Analysis of the data revealed that; 3.9 % of the men had frictional keratosis and tobacco pouch keratosis , 2.0% of the males had OSMF and chewers mucositis while the 89.1 % of males did not have any malignancies. A chi square test was done and P value less than 0.05 was considered statistically significant. CONCLUSION This study proves a definite association between smokeless tobacco habit and prevalence of Oral premalignant lesions. Keywords: Malignancies; Out patients; Smoking; Smokeless forms; Dependency; Trends
Publication date: 01/08/2021

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https://doi.org/10.31032/IJBPAS/2021/10.8.1099