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Hi guys,
I'm wondering what your opinions are on dentists and other oral health practitioners providing tobacco cessation counseling to patients.
Do you ask if patients use tobacco? Do you prescribe medications and quit-aids to kick the addiction? Are you taught at school to counsel patients to stop? Have you experienced any barriers to doing this such as time constraints, lack of resources, lack of financial reimbursement, lack of knowledge, angry patients, etc? Should dentists be responsible for tobacco use counseling?
Any comments or insight into the matter would be cool
I'm wondering what your opinions are on dentists and other oral health practitioners providing tobacco cessation counseling to patients.
Do you ask if patients use tobacco? Do you prescribe medications and quit-aids to kick the addiction? Are you taught at school to counsel patients to stop? Have you experienced any barriers to doing this such as time constraints, lack of resources, lack of financial reimbursement, lack of knowledge, angry patients, etc? Should dentists be responsible for tobacco use counseling?
Any comments or insight into the matter would be cool