Self-perceived oral health status and cytomorphological changes in individuals with addictive oral habits: assessed by WHO oral health questionnaire for adults

Authors

  • Hamna Gul College of Dentistry, Bakhtawar Amin Medical and Dental College, Multan, Pakistan
  • Farhana Asif College of Dentistry, Bakhtawar Amin Medical and Dental College, Multan, Pakistan
  • Afra Samad Multan Medical and Dental College, Multan, Pakistan
  • Sadia Minhas Akhtar Saeed Medical and Dental College, Lahore, Pakistan
  • Malik Adeel Anwar FMH College of Dentistry, Lahore, Pakistan
  • Muhammad Arslan Tayyab SIMDC, Lodhran, Pakistan
  • Muhammad Kashif College of Dentistry, Bakhtawar Amin Medical and Dental College, Multan, Pakistan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20175053

Keywords:

Oral addictive habits, Oral cytology, Smoking, Naswar, Paan, Chewing tobacco

Abstract

Background: Oral diseases related to tobacco use are relatively widespread and common in the Pakistani community but epidemiological data regarding maintenance of oral hygiene and suggested treatment is scarce. Therefore, this study was conducted in an under developed district (Muzaffargarh) of Punjab, Pakistan to evaluate oral health status and to determine frequency of cytomorphological changes in buccal mucosa of habitual tobacco users.

Methods: Oral examination of all the subjects was carried out using mouth mirrors and gauze under good illumination. Cytology samples were taken from buccal mucosa. The smears were later stained with Papanicolaou stain and microscopy was performed. All the cytological data was recorded in the respective proformas. Data was analysed using IBM SPSS software version 20. Descriptive statistical analysis was performed. A p value of ≤0.05 was considered significant.

Results: When cross relations were studied among the demographics, addictive habits and cytological variables, soft drink usage was associated with epithelial atypia (p=0.05), marijuana usage was associated with inflammatory infiltrate on cytology (p=0.047) and snuff/niswar usage was associated with inflammatory atypia (p=0.048). No associations were found among the other studied variables.

Conclusions: The results of cellular changes in the smears from subjects with addictive habits can be utilized as an educational and screening tool in cessation therapy. The results attained in this study proposed that tobacco addictive habits produce cellular modifications in clinically normal mucosa on exfoliation cytology. 

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2017-11-23

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Gul, H., Asif, F., Samad, A., Minhas, S., Anwar, M. A., Tayyab, M. A., & Kashif, M. (2017). Self-perceived oral health status and cytomorphological changes in individuals with addictive oral habits: assessed by WHO oral health questionnaire for adults. International Journal Of Community Medicine And Public Health, 4(12), 4393–4400. https://doi.org/10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20175053

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