“…Tobacco also plays an important role in the progression of periodontal diseases (Harini and Leelavathi, 2019). As healthcare professionals, we have prevented disease occurrence and progression on all the occasions (Leelavathi et al, 2016;Kannan et al, 2017).So it's our duty to inform the patients about the predilection of periodontal disease, identify high risk individuals and create awareness (Srudhy and Anitha, 2015) In the present study, more males (72.32%) participated than females. Similar findings were found which was 59.4% males and 40.6% females in a study done in South India (Balaji, Lavu and Rao, 2018).…”