Purpose: Patient educational materials for tobacco prevention and cessation are crucial for
dental and dental hygiene education. The programs rely upon written educational material …

Every year, cigarettes and other tobacco products cause nearly one in five deaths in the US,
but many smokers report not being advised to quit by their health care providers. Dentists …

Tobacco‐related health problems are the most preventable forms of illness in the United
States. By assuming proactive tobacco use cessation counseling roles, dentists and dental …

The need for inclusion of comprehensive tobacco control education/training for health care
providers continues to be stressed in publications addressing cessation services. The dental …

Dental hygienists need to assume a proactive health education role concerning tobacco
use. To help measure, define, and broaden this role, a study was conducted to assess …

Background An increase in the number of dentists conducting tobacco-use cessation
treatment is needed. The authors assessed the effects of high-intensity training (HIT) or low …

High rates of tobacco use prompted the development of a provider education program in
Kentucky to promote implementation of evidence‐based tobacco cessation treatment among …

Inadequate training in tobacco cessation counseling (TCC) is a recognized, but mutable,
barrier to implementation of tobacco cessation education (TCE) and intervention strategies …

Purpose: Dental hygienists have opportunities to take a substantive role in tobacco control
efforts. Previous research has suggested that implementation of tobacco cessation …

Objectives: Tobacco use accounts for 75 percent of oral cancer deaths in the United States.
One objective of Healthy People 2010 is to increase the percentage of dentists who provide …