Dental practice and the educational process required to become a dental professional have always been time-intensive activities. Dental practice has increasing business management demands; and as financial pressures increase, less time will be available to confer with consultants or to find needed information in comprehensive reference texts. Similarly changes in dental education are placing strains on student and resident time. This is because of the need to learn new concepts and clinical techniques as an addition to an already packed curriculum. These realities of times constraints in modern dental practice and education threaten to encroach upon the most central goal of dentistry: “Quality Patient Care’’.

Author

• Dr Pradeep Kumar Jha (M.D.S.), Reader cum Head of Department Oral Medicine & Radiology,
  Patna Dental College & Hospital, Ashok Raj Path, Bankipur, Patna.

Editor

• Dr. Mobeen Khan MDS (Oral Medicine & Radiology),
  Senior lecturer, Department of Oral Medicine & Radiology, CDCH Safedabad Barabanki, U.P.
  Oral and Maxillofacial Specialist and Consultant, Oral and Maxillofacial Radiologist.

Contributors

• Shalini Kumari Shalini Kumari as a career pursued her Bachelor of Dental surgery form Sudha Rastogi College of Dental Science and Research, Haryana in the year 2015-19. Currently pursuing internship from Government Dental College and Hospital, Patna, Bihar. She is strong and conscious and made her effort in research of different types of systemic disease on Oral Health.
• Shreya Shruti Shreya Shruti has completed her Bachelor of Dental surgery from Hazaribag College of Dental Sciences and Hospital, Jharkhand in the year 2015-19. Currently pursuing her internship from Government Dental College and Hospital, Patna, Bihar. She showed keen interest in searching about the effects of systemic disease on Oral Health.
• Shalu Kumari Singh She did her Bachelor of Dental surgery from Hazaribag College of Dental Sciences and Hospital, Jharkhand in the year 2015-19 and currently pursuing her internship from Government Dental College and Hospital, Patna, Bihar. She has gathered information and did research on commonly occurring systemic disease.
• Ramsha Rizwan Affording a smile is not something that can be taken for granted and Ramsha Rizwan understood this in her formative years and chose her career in dentistry. She has completed her Bachelor in Dental Surgery from Hazaribag College of Dental Sciences and Hospital, Jharkhand and is now persuing her Internship from Government Dental College and Hospital, Patna, Bihar. She embrassed plethora of experience in dealing with patients from diverse background. She has shown her enthusiasm and did research on systemic disease affecting dental hygiene.