A scientometric study of tobacco and alcohol use as risk factors for oral cavity health

Hao Liu; Zhonglin Yu; Ziyun Xu; Tingzhong Liu; Wei Liu

doi:10.1016/j.jds.2023.05.016

A scientometric study of tobacco and alcohol use as risk factors for oral cavity health

J Dent Sci. 2023 Oct;18(4):1883-1888. doi: 10.1016/j.jds.2023.05.016. Epub 2023 May 23.

Authors

Hao Liu¹, Zhonglin Yu^{2

3}, Ziyun Xu³, Tingzhong Liu¹, Wei Liu^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Stomatology, The People's HospitaI of Suzhou New District, Suzhou, China.
² Department of Oral and Maxillofacial-Head and Neck Oncology, Shanghai Center of Head and Neck Oncology Clinical and Translational Science, Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
³ College of Stomatology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, National Center for Stomatology, National Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Stomatology, Shanghai Research Institute of Stomatology, Shanghai, China.

Abstract

Background/purpose: Tobacco and alcohol are the well-known carcinogenic agents of oral cavity health. The purpose of this study was to investigate the scientometric characteristics of alcohol and tobacco use and oral health.

Materials and methods: The papers on alcohol and tobacco use and oral cavity were published since 1885 and 1895, respectively. All the eligible papers were retrieved on March 20, 2023 from the Scopus database.

Results: There are 2529 and 1545 papers on tobacco smoking and alcohol drinking and oral cavity in the Scopus database, respectively. Based on the frequency of keywords in all included papers, both smoking and drinking are involved in mouth neoplasms, oral cancer, leukoplakia, and periodontal diseases. In the papers on tobacco and alcohol use and oral cavity, the same research keywords confirm tobacco and alcohol use associate with oral cancer risk possibly through influencing genetics and gene and protein expression. For the distinctive keywords, nicotine, smoking cessation, and electronic cigarette are unique keywords of tobacco use. Acetaldehyde, alcohol dehydrogenase, and alcohol metabolism are unique ones of alcohol use.

Conclusion: This study for the first time reports the scientometric characteristics of tobacco and alcohol use and oral health, which might aid healthcare authorities to promote tobacco and alcohol control measures focused on the necessities of their population.

Keywords: Alcohol drinking; Oral health; Oral leukoplakia; Oral squamous cell carcinoma; Tobacco smoking.