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Background: Increased use of mobile phones has led to increase in the prevalence of health problems. Hence, the presentstudy was undertaken to assess the pattern of the use of mobile phone and its association with self-reported health problemsamong adults.Materials and Methods: A total of 1520 participants visiting a private dental institute in Dhule, Maharashtra, were interviewedusing a pre-tested, structured questionnaire. The questionnaire included variables such as socio-demographic details, use ofmobile phone use and its pattern, selected health problems, perceived benefits, or threats of the use of mobile phone. Dataobtained were analyzed using SPSS software.Results: The majority of the participants (87.9%) were using mobile phone for up to 3 h daily. The majority of the participants(98.3%) reported using mobile phone for calling facility followed by internet or social networking purpose (67.2%). Healthsymptoms such as headache, stressful eyes, tiredness, and painful fingers showed an increased prevalence with increase in thedaily usage of mobile phones; whereas hypertension was inversely related to the use of mobile phone. Most of the participantsagreed that they start feeling stressed or anxious without their mobile phones.Conclusion: Selected health problems showed a positive association with increasing mobile phone use. People should bemade aware of harmful effects caused due to over-indulgence in the use of mobile phone and should restrict the use of focusonly on mobile positive phones to the minimum possible.