Palliative dental care- a boon for debilitating

J Clin Diagn Res. 2014 Jun;8(6):ZE01-6. doi: 10.7860/JCDR/2014/8898.4427. Epub 2014 Jun 20.

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.

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).

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