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  • Title: Smokeless tobacco and premalignant and malignant lesions of the oral cavity.
    Author: Chakrabarti RN, Dutta K, Sikdar S, Ghosh K.
    Journal: Indian J Med Sci; 1991 Oct; 45(10):273-5. PubMed ID: 1797655.
    Abstract:
    The paper compares the prevalence of oral carcinoma and dysplasia in smokeless tobacco users and non users. A total of 3205 subjects were studied. Of the smokeless tobacco users, 1.96 percent had oral carcinoma compared with 0.36 percent of non-users. The prevalence of oral dysplasia in the users' group was 14.4 percent as compared with 6.85 percent in the group of non-users.
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