Dr. Vikrant Mohanty is the Head of Department and Associate Professor at Maulana Azad Institute of Dental Sciences. Currently, he is acting as a Medical officer in charge for the first mobile dental clinic project in India entitled, “unique initiative to improvise, innovate and integrate dental health care into the existing health care system”. He is also in charge of overall supervision of various activities under Tobacco Cessation Clinic from Patient Care, Community programs, research, and capacity building.
The prevalence of tobacco use has been reported to be high in most parts of the country. Tobacco use is a major public health challenge in India and government of India has taken various initiatives for tobacco control in the country. There is a need to devise some methods in tobacco control programs by mobilizing financial and human resources along with evaluation and monitoring…
