Community Dental Health

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Cover Date:
March 2016
Print ISSN:
0265 539X
Vol:
33
Issue:
1

Areca chewing among Sri Lankan adolescents

Areca chewing among Sri Lankan adolescents

Objective: To determine the prevalence of and characteristics associated with Sri Lankan adolescents’ chewing of areca. Basic research design: Cross-sectional descriptive study based on a self-administered questionnaire. Participants: 633, 15-year-olds in the Bandarawela education zone of Sri Lanka. Results: Nearly 7% of the sample were current chewers of arecanut and 1% of commercially available areca products respectively. Furthermore 42% were past areca nut chewers while 3% of the sample had previously chewed commercially available areca products.

Key words areca nut, betel quid, commercial areca products, adolescents,

doi:10.1922/CDH_3809Karunarathne05

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£15.00
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Page Start
39
Page End
43
Authors
L. Ekanayake, D. Karunarathne

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