Use of Tobacco and Oral Sub Mucous Fibrosis in Teenagers

The Study was conducted to evaluate the prevalence of Use of tobacco & its associated products & Oral Sub Mucous Fibrosis among teenagers. It was conducted on 750 school going teenagers of Dehradun city. Results of the study showed that 34.1% of the study subjects used tobacco & its associated products & among them 14.2% of Oral Sub Mucous Fibrosis cases were identified. Association between type of tobacco product & occurrence of Oral sub Mucous Fibrosis was also found. Tobacco & its associated products have been identified as a high risk for occurrence of the precancerous condition (Oral Sub Mucous Fibrosis). Essential steps must be instituted to decelerate this rapidly evolving epidemic of Tobacco/Areca nut use & thus Oral Sub Mucous Fibrosis & Oral cancer.