 Hello everyone, welcome back to a new session on Tentistry and More. So today we have a very small topic, a very recent topic that is palliative care. So this is recently introduced to our curriculum, that is public health and history curriculum. So what is palliative care and what is palliative oral health care? So palliative care we know, palliative care means we are providing a palliative service to terminally ill patients so that they have a better end of their lives. So palliative patients mostly will be referred from hospitals because they don't have any options left. So such patients will be taken care by the palliative unit, so it is very much prevalent in our state. So they will be taken care by the palliative members. So let's see what is palliative care? It is specialized medical care for patients with serious illness. The aim is to improve the quality of life and to avoid unwanted suffering. And palliative care has historically been considered as a service for cancer patient but over time realization has set in for the need of palliative care for patients with other chronic and incurable diseases. So what is the definition? So it is basically not only for cancer patients but for all the patients who is having any problem in maintaining a good health because the disease has affected him such that he is not able to lead a proper quality life. So he needs to be taken care of. That is the concept of palliative care. It is defined as an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problems associated with life-threatening illness through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification, impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, physical, psychosocial and spiritual. So we are considering a holistic approach of health. So the basic principles are provide relief from pain and other distressing symptoms, affirms life and regards dying as a normal process, intends neither to hasten or postpone death, integrates psychosocial and spiritual aspect of patient care, offers a support system to help patients live as actively as possible until death. So we just don't let them die. We just let them live until they die, offers a support system to help the family cope during the patient's illness and in their own bereavement. So let's take some points of palliative care dentistry. This is study and management of patients with active progressive advanced disease in home. The oral cavity has been compromised as either by disease directly or by its treatment because most of the patients will be under chemotherapy or radiation therapy and every other therapy will be having oral manifestations and side effects on the oral cavity. So that area is always neglected. So oral health people or dentists or the public health people can take a good care of the oral health of these palliative patients. So it is a approach that improves quality of life of patients with life threatening illness and families through prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and assessment of treatment, pain and other problems. So it is just a short note question. What is palliative care and palliative care dentistry? I will write about few principles and what a dentist can do on a palliative side and little bit about introduction will be enough for this question. So I will come up with a new session on dentistry and more. Thank you.