Assessment of morbidity pattern of oral diseases following substance use in young adult & adolescent in Kathmandu.
Journal Title: International Journal of Medical Science and Innovative Research (IJMSIR) - Year 2018, Vol 3, Issue 3
Abstract
Oral disease is commonly associated with considerable pain anxiety and social functioning impairment. The cross sectional study was carried out among 106 respondents of age group 10-19+ yrs with an objective of study the problems and risk factors leading to oral lesions in these tobacco and non tobacco substance users. Control of substance abuse is one of main interventions in essential health services (EHCS) .The overall prevalence is in this hospital based study among the total respondents 90 used other forms of smoked tobacco like bidi/cigarettes. This study has been also considered in quantitative a qualitative analysis to find out better approach to prevent them from going to substance abuse in earlier age group Ten cases have been dropped as they could not come for follow up due to their searching of Job for their survival. Sixteen subjects were randomly subjected for self help group discussion and other twenty excluded from study. The urban subjects were 58 (64.4%) and 32(35.6%) from rural area. The unemployed youth were 67 (74.5%) involving more in substance use. The common oral lesion was in male as Leukoplabia in 23(47.9%) and in female 14(33.3%) respectively.
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Heena Sadiq
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