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Dentistry
Counseling by student-dentists helps patients quit smoking
April 10th, 2007
Students in most dental schools are taught to refer tobacco-using patients they encounter in their clinical training to call a "quit line." The University at Buffalo's School of Dental Medicine is taking a different tack. In one of the few such programs in the nation, third- and fourth-year UB dental students are using non-judgmental tobacco counseling to encourage their patients to quit. Results presented (March 24, 2007) at the 2007 International Association of Dental Research meeting in New Orleans showed that 51 percent of the 89 patients who accepted and received tobacco counseling from the student-dentists agreed to quit immediately. ...
Source: Life Science Weekly (2007-04-10)
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