Tackling tobacco dependency. The dental team approach.
Tobacco use causes approximately 440,000 premature deaths in the United States annually. The U.S. Clinical Practice Guideline on Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence encourages clinicians to: Ask about tobacco use; Advise patients to stop; Assess willingness to quit; Assist in treatment; and Arrange for follow-up. Apply the five "A's" to the dental team by implementing a system to collect the necessary information, while providing multiple and reinforcing messages to help tobacco-using patients progress toward abstinence.
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