DAVANAGERE: For the first time, a tobacco museum will be set up at the College of Dental Sciences (CoDS) in Davanagere with the support of its chairman Shamanur Shivashankarappa, according to the principal Dr V V Subba Reddy.
The museum will be getting ready in a month or two. Two dimensions (2D) and three dimensions (3D) models made of plaster of paris along with charts depicting the ill-effects of tobacco consumption, including oral cancer will be displayed in the museum, Prof Reddy said.
The museum will be getting ready in a month or two. Two dimensions (2D) and three dimensions (3D) models made of plaster of paris along with charts depicting the ill-effects of tobacco consumption, including oral cancer will be displayed in the museum, Prof Reddy said.
Besides, different tobacco products which are being sold in the market and cases of their side effects will be displayed in the museum, he added. As a pilot project, the museum will be in a classroom of 30x40 feet size, mainly to create awareness among the public, Prof Reddy hinted.
"The museum will be very effectively used for counselling and also for de-addiction purpose," Prof Reddy noted. "The number of gutka chewers is alarming, particularly among the high school boys, women folk, labour class," according to Dr G Rajeshwari Annigeri, professor and head of Oral Medicine and Radiology.
Women and labour class people get addicted to gutka after they give up beetle leaf consumption, she noted. "Several youth who are addicted to tobacco have been suffering from oral sub mucous fibrosis (OSMF), a kind of disease, through which they develop burning sensation, difficulty in opening mouth and swallowing," she said. Gradually, it turns into cancer.
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