The feasibility of using an alcohol screening tool in a UK dental setting to identify patients' alcohol consumption.

The article focuses on ease of using an alcohol screening as a tool in dental setting to know patients' alcohol consumption in Great Britain. Topics discussed include alcohol misuse as an contributing factor to increased mortality, chronic ill-health and violent crime, use of Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test Consumption (AUDICT) as screening tool to know level of alcohol consumption in dental patients and importance of alcohol brief intervention training for dental team members.