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Up to 200,000 people in Britain could be helped to quit smoking in 12 months by their dentists! This follows recent studies of the dental community targeting smokers that desperately want to quit smoking.

Here's how your dentist could hold the answer to quit smoking for good .....

Up to 200,000 people in Britain could be helped to quit smoking in 12 months by their dentists, "said the respected British Dental Journal who conducted a recent study.

This statement follows previous research at University College London on the links between alcohol - smoking and cancer of the mouth. The study also concluded that the risk of oral cancer can be minimized by early detection of malignant lesions in the mouth, sores that lead to oral cancer by dentists as part of a check-up regular.

This is particularly important for men. For the study revealed that the lesions predominate in men, heavy smokers of both sexes, and men who drink heavily. Men are twice as likely as women to have oral lesions. Heavy smokers were three times-and a half may be affected. the heavy-drinking women were no more likely to suffer injuries that nondrinkers.

Early detection is the stumbling block in prevention of oral cancer. Attempts by a process of selection has little patient response and are not profitable, so the report suggests that dentists could check the condition of patients in for routine visits.

Another, this time of chilling, statistic is that nearly 128,000 people worldwide died from mouth cancer in 2000 and in recent years the number of cases in the United Kingdom has been steadily rising. It is estimated that there are currently 13,000 people living in the United Kingdom with oral cancer.

public understanding of the condition is poor, the universities of Liverpool and Manchester found when they started asking questions. patients' knowledge, however, has increased dramatically during his presentation of information in a leaflet. The booklet has also managed to dispel the myths about the subject.

But back to the original statistical. Then your dentist help you quit smoking weed? Yes, said the BDJ, but (as always) there is a small inconvenience. Resources - and this means that treasury - and the support should be available to undertake a smoking cessation campaign.

The study found positive attitudes among dentists to the idea. A nugget of hope is the revelation that three minutes of advice could help a more than two percent of smokers quit each year. If the advice were to last ten minutes and be combined with therapy to nicotine replacement and then to six per cent would give up.

The challenge for many dentists to include the time and cost pressures, lack of knowledge or confidence, relationship problems and the dentist-patient doubts about the effectiveness of their participation.

Thus, the study conducted by the Royal Free and University College London Medical School and Guy's, Kings and St. Thomas School of Medicine, the need for professional support and additional training - so money!

Looking for a better future for smokers who are desperate to get rid of this habit, early detection of oral cancer is a positive step for the dental industry in the entire United Kingdom.

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