Dentistry

Abstract

Role of Tobacco in the Development of Oral Leukoplakia and Oral Cancer

Maka Sabashvili, Elene Gigineishvili, Maia Jikia and Tamta Chitaladze

Tobacco smoking is associated with the development of many diseases, including 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 different 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 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.