PALLIATIVE CARE DENTISTRY-A GRATUITY FOR GERIATRICS.
- M.D.S, Private practitioner, Gautam Multispeciality Dental Clinic, Sigra, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.
- M.D.S, Senior Lecturer, Department of Periodontics and Implantology, I.T.S. Centre for Dental Studies and Research, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India.
- M.D.S, Senior Lecturer, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology and Microbiology, I.T.S. Dental College, Hospital and Research Centre, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India.
- M.D.S, Senior Lecturer, Department of Oral Medicine & Radiology, Institute of Dental Studies & Technologies Kadrabad, Modinagar , Uttar Pradesh, India. \ M.D.S, Senior Lecturer, Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Pathology, Santosh Dental College & Hospital, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India.
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Abstract
Palliative care concerns for dealing with patients in the end phase of their life. These patients should receive a treatment which focuses on the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, physical, psychosocial and spiritual. The Dental treatment alongwith consisting of straining curative treatment approaches, also focuses on the improvement of the quality of life. The aim of this paper is to give a view of general dental problems in geriatrics/old age people and their treatments that might not only relieve them of their disease but have a positive impact on their psychology, as during this phase of life our only aim should be to put back a smile on their face.
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Vivek Gautam, Swyeta Jain Gupta, Amit Gupta, Mukul Prabhat and Kanika Bhalla Prabhat. (2016); PALLIATIVE CARE DENTISTRY-A GRATUITY FOR GERIATRICS., Int. J. of Adv. Res., 4 (08), 2225-2231, ISSN 2320-5407. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/1441
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