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J Am Dent Assoc
; 128(2): 216-24, 1997 Feb.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-9037977
ABSTRACT
During a 90-minute, on-site training session, a dentist/tobacco-cessation educator trained 293 dental professionals from 57 offices. The authors report statistically significant increases between the pre-training and follow-up surveys for 12 tobacco-cessation activities and the amount of time spent on such activities (P < .001). Using participants' estimates-taken at three months after the training-the authors calculated that an average of two patients per office had stopped using tobacco, two had stopped and relapsed, and eight patients were considering stopping tobacco usage.