More than ninety per cent of dental patients feel OK discussing their drinking with their dentist, a survey by researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina has found.
Authors of the study urged dentists to raise the subject with patients and to advise drinking less or quitting if excessive drinking were found.
The fact that heavy drinking causes cancer of the larynx gives dentists grounds to raise the subject.
This kind of "brief intervention" by doctors has proved to be a highly effective motivator to get people to cut down or stop drinking. Details.
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