Open AccessTrends in frequency and duration of tobacco habit in relation to potentially malignant lesion: A 3 years retrospective study
Author(s) -
Kavita Nitish Garg,
Vineet Raj,
Shaleen Chandra
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of oral and maxillofacial pathology/journal of oral and maxillofacial pathology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.455
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1998-393X
pISSN - 0973-029X
DOI - 10.4103/0973-029x.119760
Subject(s) - duration (music) , habit , medicine , retrospective cohort study , relation (database) , lesion , surgery , psychology , data mining , computer science , physics , social psychology , acoustics
Oral cancer is one of the most debilitating and disfiguring of all malignancies; it is one of the most frequently occurring cancers in the body. The high incidence of oral cancer in India has been attributed to widespread tobacco usage among the population either in chewable or smoked form.