Oral health status among tobacco users in the selected rural population

This cross sectional study was carried out to asses the oral health status among tobacco users in the selected rural population of Gazipur district in 2011. Purposive sampling technique was used to collect data from 349 respondents, aged 18 years and above. Their mean age was 36.39 (SD±13.666) years. Among them, 173 (49.6%) were male and 176 (50.4%) were female. Their educational status shows that, majority (35.8%) was illiterate, 32% were from secondary level and only 6.6% from higher secondary & above level. Majority (51%) of the males were either businessman or agricultural worker, where as most of the females’ (84%) were house wives. The tobacco smoking habit of the respondents showed that 33.2% were current tobacco smokers and rest…