title: Palliative dental care- a boon for debilitating.
abstract: World Health Organization defines "palliative care" as the active total care of patients whose disease is not responding to curative treatment. Palliative care actually deals with patients at the terminal end stage of the disease. We always face a question why a dentist should be in a palliative team? What is the exact role of dentist? Dental treatment may not always be strenuous and curative, but also can focus on improving quality of life of the patient. Hence forth the present paper enlightens the importance of dentist role in palliative team.
authors.affiliation: Assistant Professor, Department of Oral Medicine & Radiology,Drs Sudha and Nageswararo, Siddhartha Institute of Dental Sciences , Chinaoutpalli, Gannavaram Mandal, Andhra Pradesh, India .
authors.forename: Bhavana Sujana
authors.initials: BS
authors.lastname: Mulk
authors.affiliation: Assistant Professor, Department of Oral Medicine & Radiology,Drs Sudha and Nageswararo, Siddhartha Institute of Dental Sciences , Chinaoutpalli, Gannavaram Mandal, Andhra Pradesh, India .
authors.forename: Raja Lakshmi
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Chintamaneni
authors.affiliation: Professor & HOD, Department of Oral Medicine & Radiology, Lenora Institute of Dental Sciences Internal Rd , Konthamuru, Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh, India. .
authors.forename: Prabhat
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Mpv
authors.affiliation: Professor, Department of Oral Medicine & Radiology, Drs Sudha and Nageswararo, Siddhartha Institute of Dental Sciences , Chinaoutpalli, Gannavaram Mandal, Andhra Pradesh, India .
authors.forename: Sarat
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gummadapu
authors.affiliation: Associate Professor, Department of Periodontics,Drs Sudha and Nageswararo, Siddhartha Institute of Dental Sciences , Chinaoutpalli, Gannavaram Mandal, Andhra Pradesh, India .
authors.forename: Shyam Sundar
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Salvadhi
keywords: Dental expression; Geriatric oral health assessment index (GOHAI); Granulocyte colony stimulating factor (G-CSF); Keratinocyte growth factor (KGF); Residential aged care facilities (RACF’S)