OBJECTIVE-A Generous presence of dentists in the country would aid the awareness generation of the people who could start early in life and be saved from falling in to the trap of cancer (especially oral cancer) via the vision captured in primary stage of their dental/oral health maintenance visit. This programme works with the oral health care practitioners being aware of the already implemented efforts as well as make them a part of those efforts in their professional expertise.
1) Awareness regarding already implemented government initiatives
2)scope of private practices in tobacco cessation activities
3)Awareness over WHO initiative and guidelines for conduction of tobacco
cessation activities.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
1) Coordination of government efforts via established TCC Cells with the private practitioner
2)primary line of the counseling upon dental visit
3) Identification of the status of an individual toward quitting tobacco
4)Medicaments vs Counselling
Subtopics: -
1)MPower
2) Societal interventions-Rural and Urban
3) School dental doctors
4)Interaction Specificities
Tobacco cessation programmes are vital for cancer prevention.