Priya S. Joshi

Smokeless Tobacco – Ammunition against Dental Caries? A Microbial Study

Priya S. Joshi, Madhuri Chougule, Shirish G. Joshi Reader, Bhagyalaxmi P. Hongal & Rucha S. Kore · Microbiology Research Journal International · 2015

Aims: The tobacco plant, Nicotiana tabacum, has been one of the major risk factors for oral cancer. However, the literature has endowed it as “holy herb” since the pre-Columbian era as being used for treating pain, poisonous bites, ulcers, nasal polyp. So we designed a study to e...