Dentistry and Craniofacial Research

Role of tobacco in the development of oral leukoplakia and oral cancer

27^th International Conference on Dentistry and Dental Practice
January 28-29, 2019 Barcelona, Spain

Maka Sabashvili, Elene Gigineishvili and Tamta Chitaladze

University of Georgia, Georgia

ScientificTracks Abstracts: J Den Craniofac Res

DOI: 10.21767/2576-392X-C1-014

Abstract

Tobacco smoking is associated with the development of many diseases, such as oral cancer and leukoplakia. This fact is described in the 2014 annual report of the US Office of the Surgeon General “The results of smoking on health, 50 years of progress”. Despite the fact that forms of tobacco (cigarettes, cigars, pipes, dipping and chewing tobacco or inhaled) are used in order to reduce pulmonary and cardiac complications, tobacco has a negative influence on human health. Tobacco smoking increases the death rate of smokers by 30-80%. Based on the mentioned information we can determine the causal relationship between smoking and the development of oral cancer, leukoplakia and chronic impact on oral organs, i.e. lips during constant tobacco use.

Biography

Maka Sabashvili lives in Georgia. She is administrator of rotational learning at University of Georgia. She graduated from the State University, Medical Faculty, Dentistry. She has worked as Dentist in private Clinic. She has published 2 articles in quoted journals. She has participated in several scientific conferences. She continues to get education and now she is a student of Doctoral program of Public Health. She is member of Georgian Dental Association.

E-mail: m.sabashvili@ug.edu.ge