title: A day at the office (an advertorial).
abstract: This issue of General Dentistry highlights how tobacco products affect oral health. The following articles are presented to help general dentists with their efforts to champion cessation and to educate their patients. Please also note the guest editorial from Dr. Robert Mecklenburg. This first article by Dr. Stephen B. Corbin is an introduction to the topic at large and provides the reader with a suggested script for use in helping patients quit the smoking habit. We hope you find these articles useful and look forward to hearing your response. Please fax (312/440-4261) or e-mail (AGDJournal@agd.org) your thoughts on these articles. We hope these articles succeed in helping you help your patients beat the tobacco habit.
authors.affiliation: Oral Health America-America's Fund for Dental Health in Brookeville, MD 20833, USA.
authors.forename: S B
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Corbin
mesh_terms: D003812:Dentist-Patient Relations; D006801:Humans; D016540:Smoking Cessation