Empowering Malaysian dentists to tobacco dependence treatment conduct

• Main Authors: Amer Nordin, Amer Siddiq, Abdul Kadir, R., Yahya, N.A., Zakaria, H., Abd Rashid, Rusdi, Habil, H.
• Format: Article
• Published: Wiley 2014
• Subjects: R Medicine
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/11057/; http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/idj.12110/full
• Institution: Universiti Malaya

As a signatory to the World Health Organisation 2003 Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, Malaysia has policies in place and funded 300 public Quit clinics. Unfortunately, government dentists are not included to run tobacco dependence treatment. A cross-sectional exploratory survey was carried o...