Tobacco and oral health: To smoke or not to smoke! It is not questionable.
In contrast, Motivational Interviewing (MI) is based on a different assumption of human behaviour change.
- To ensure the awareness of tobacco-related oral diseases.
- To put emphasis on the importance of regularly screening, which will reduce the overall morbidity and mortality from oral cancer and other mouth disorders, and will dramatically improve the quality of life of those people who are at greatest risk of these diseases.
- To highlight the role of the dentist to educate the patients and to provide them with advice particularly to stop smoking (Smoking cessation)