 Hello everyone welcome back to another session in dentistry ammo topic for today is primary dental care or primary oral care. So primary healthcare we learned in detail in another chapter where we learned the levels of treatment or levels of healthcare that is the primary level where the sub centers and primary health centers are providing healthcare to the people. Primary level that is a district hospital community health centers where a better options that is a referral unit of all these primary units then the tertiary level where all the treatment will be available that is a referral units of the secondary level. The same concept we apply for dental care okay so this is just about primary dental care that is the dental care provided at the primary level that is at the grass root level that is at sub centers and primary health centers. So that is a concept but the problem is welcoming to Indian scenario the primary dental care is at its very nascent state because we have primary health centers and sub centers in most of the villages but less than 5 percentage primary health centers has a dentist in duty. The main problem with the government is that keeping a dentist is very costly because the dentist requires lots of equipments dental chair and other accessories and auxiliaries. So it is very costly so the chances of a dentist being appointed at a primary health center is very unlikely at present Indian scenario. So the concept is very good because the dental diseases are to be treated at very early because the dental diseases are very costly once it goes into its advanced stage because it needs root canal therapy or the crown therapy or implant if it is diagnosed at very early state if it can be restored with simple filling the mortality is very very less and the economical side also it is less expensive. But the problem we don't have dental workforce at primary care units because primary health centers is having less than 5 percentage so that is a scenario of India. So dental council of India put forward oral health policy to suggest that every primary health center should have a dentist but it is nowhere in implementation state. So primary care is basically providing health or dental care at the grass root level where the Indian scenario it is nowhere meeting its objectives. So appointing a dentist or providing a dental workforce at the grass root level or primary health level which can bring out a lot of reduction in the mortality of dental diseases because if we are able to track or if we are able to control the disease at the very early state so it can bring out a drastic change in the dental health status of a population. So it is very much vital to have the primary dental care units in our country because we are overburdened with dental diseases. So it is a very small concept on academic point of view the questions used to come in university paper to write about primary dental care you don't find the answer as such in your textbook. So this is a concept so there is nowhere we have primary dental care. So that is just few percentage of the primary health centers is having this facility that is why it is nowhere in the textbooks. So if a question come you need to write about the comparison with primary health care and primary dental care and what is the need of dental care at a primary unit and what is its significance in our country where the country is having so much of dental problems and the patient's paying capacity is very less. So I will come with another topic in the industry thank you.