What is it about?
The aim of this study was to identify and evaluate the quality of the content of webpages providing information about smoking cessation for oral health care professionals
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Why is it important?
Oral health care professionals are well placed to motivate and dispense smoking cessation advice to their patients.Tobacco plays a major role in the development and poor treatment outcomes of many oral diseases.There is strong evidence that smoking cessation results in oral health benefits.
Perspectives
On the basis of a European Union (EU) initiative for lifelong learning, our group has been commissioned to deliver a Web-based learning program designed to be used by healthcare professionals, including dentists and dental hygienists, to increase their professional skills in providing smoking cessation advice for tobacco users. This can be accessed online:http://smokingcessationtraining.com.
Dr Márcio Diniz Freitas
University of Santiago de Compostela
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This page is a summary of: Web-Based Information on the Treatment of Tobacco Dependence for Oral Health Professionals: Analysis of English-Written Websites, Journal of Medical Internet Research, October 2017, JMIR Publications Inc.,
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.8174.
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