 Hello, everyone. Welcome back to a new session on dentistry and more. So, today's topic is Indian Dental Association. So, Indian Dental Association is for the well-being of dental professionals and dentistry as a whole and at the same time they are well concerned with the dental health needs of Indian civilization and their upliftment in that aspect. So, it is basically for welfare of a dentist and for conducting more programs which can benefit dentists. Actually, no law behind this like DCA dental council of India is totally a government body which is based on the dentist act of India which are supposed to maintain the quality of dentists in our country. But, IDA is not such a body, it is just for the encouraging dentist in their profession and as well as to have a quality dental treatment by providing a more of dental education materials and seminars and other programs so that the dentist can work in a productive way. At the same time they keep conferences and other programs for the encouragement and totality of dentistry. So, this IDA is unlike dental council of India, is not bound to any particular law. So, it was first started in 90, 28 by the father of Indian dentistry that is Aramath. So, it was first known as all in the dental association. After the dentist act and dental council of India came into existence, the name changed to IDA. So, this was the first started in Bengal. Bengal branch was the first IDA branch or all in the dental association branch in India. So, what are the objectives of IDA? So, it is as I said there is no law behind it. So, it is to promote encourage and advance dental and allied sciences to encourage its members to undertake measures for improvement of public health and education, maintenance of honor and dignity and the uploading of appalling of the interest of dental profession and cooperation between the members. So, basically these are the objectives and let's see the members of IDA. It has a CHEMPO committee. So, one president and one president elect, one immediate past president, president is the current working president, one president elect is the next, one was supposed to join after this president resigns and one immediate past president was completed his tenure last time and three vice presidents, one honorary general secretary and one assistant general secretary, one treasurer, one secretary of CDH and one editor for a particular journal, IDA journal. So, there are various branches of IDA. There are many local level branches and state level branches. There are 29 state branches, 7 union territory branches, around 450 local branches and one defense branches. So, how do we take membership? So, we can take honorary members. So, they are like or reserved for the pioneers of Indian dentistry and very reputed people and those who have contributed a lot to Indian dentistry, they'll be getting honorary members, life members. Once we taken this life membership, it is for final. We don't need to renew it. So, annual members is like how every dentist does that every year they renew their membership fees. Direct members and affiliate members we are practicing and our home is at that particular place we can join and affiliate members we are practicing at a different position and we are our home or our place at different place we can affiliate to another branch. Students members means students can participate in activities of Indian dental association by joining as a student member. Once they become dentists, they need to go for annual members. So, functions they keep annual conferences at national state and local branches they conduct various programs, conferences, webinars and other programs for the betterment of dentistry and they have paper presentations and talks on different topics expressing their views by the expert people and conduct programs such as continuing dental health education programs, seminars and hands-on training various lectures and panel discussions and they also conduct school dental health checkups and dental treatment camp for the community. So, they provide awareness program about dental health to the school children and even to the public and to conduct program on specific days like not tobacco day, cancer day, oral health day, oral hygiene day. So, all these days this idea will conduct various programs and conduct dental treatment and screening camps in association with various NGOs and they publish a journal every month. So, every local branch and national or state branch has different different journals. So, they publish journals it is for the students and dentists they can publish their work or research work or review in the particular journal. So, that is all about Indian dental association. So, little bit about his history, its membership, its branches and its committee and little bit of objectives. So, that is all about Indian dental association. The next topic is Dental Council of India. So, thank you.