Title

Effects of tobacco consumption on oral health: Knowledge and Awareness among dental patients and their attitude towards tobacco cessation and counseling in North Maharashtra, India

Authors

Bharath Shivkumar¹*, Jagdishchandra Vathar², D Shwetha³, Rajesh Ijalkar⁴, Savreen Kaur⁵ & Rini Chacko⁶

Affiliation

¹Department of Public Health Dentistry, Government Dental College and Hospital, Jalgaon, Maharashtra, India; ²Department of Public Health Dentistry, Government Dental College and Hospital, Chatrapati Sambhajinagar, Maharashtra, India; ³Department of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics, HKES's Nijalingappa Institute of Dental College and Hospital, Kalburgi, Karnataka, India; ⁴Department of Pediatric and Preventive Dentistry, Government Dental college and Hospital, Jalgaon, Maharashtra, India; ⁵Department of Pediatric and Preventive Dentistry, SGT university, Gurgaon, Haryana, India; ⁶Department of Pediatric and Preventive Dentistry, SGT University, Gurgaon, Haryana, India; *Corresponding author

Email

Bharath Shivkumar - E-mail: drbharath45@gmail.com
Jagdishchandra Vathar - E-mail: drjagdish.v@rediffmail.com
D Shwetha - E-mail: drshwethad25@gmail.com
Rajesh Ijalkar - E-mail: ijalkarrajesh15@gmail.com
Savreen Kaur - E-mail: savreen_savi@yahoo.com
Rini Chacko - E-mail: drrini_fdsc@sgtuniversity.org

Article Type

Research Article

Date

Received November 15, 2025; Revised December 15, 2025; Accepted December 15, 2025, Published December 15, 2025

Abstract

India is the fourth-highest tobacco consumer in the world. Therefore, it is of interest to assess knowledge, awareness, attitude and practice of tobacco consumption among dental patients. Hence, a total of 414 dental patients with mean age 38.9±2.5 years were enrolled. The knowledge (p=0.04) and attitude (p=0.02) were significantly associated with education whereas, attitude towards quitting tobacco consumption was associated with age (p=0.05). Thus, participants had moderate knowledge and favorable attitude; proper tobacco cessation counseling will help in quitting the tobacco consumption.

Keywords

Tobacco chewing, smoking, knowledge, attitude, awareness

Citation

Shivkumar et al. Bioinformation 21(12): 4329-4332 (2025)

Edited by

P Kangueane

ISSN

0973-2063

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.