Liver and thyroid profile in educating smokeless tobacco users and its role in oral health promotion

• Main Authors: Tanya Khaitan (Author), Anjani Kumar Shukla (Author), Prashant Gupta (Author), Shantala R Naik (Author), Pratik Verma (Author), Surender Kumar (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND: Smokeless tobacco (SLT) usage contributes about 40% of the total tobacco used in India. Among the 28 known carcinogens in SLT, tobacco-specific nitrosamines are considered to be the most potent. This has challenged the metabolic condition leading to a rise in the inflammatory status, hep...