Smokeless Tobacco and Oral Health

The practice of placing a small amount of smokeless tobacco or chewing tobacco in the oral cavity and leaving it in place for extended periods of time appears to be finding its way onto middle school, high school, and college campuses as a socially acceptable and popular habit. Numerous reports in the literature, have described the oral changes that appear to be associated with the use of smokeless tobacco in adults.The most prevalent oral manifestation of smokeless tobacco (ST) use is a white ...