Books by Laxmikanth Chatra

Palliative care being an important modality in management of carcinoma patients, has recently emerged as a separate medical speciality. Palliative care for head & neck cancers plays a vital role in improving the quality of life of terminally ill patients. Palliative care focuses on improving the quality of life of patients by alleviating the physical and psychological symptoms,not actually focusing on curative aspect of disease. Various categories under this are surgical, chemotherapeutic & radio-therapeutic palliative care, surgical having the least role. This booklet is aimed at presenting all the aspects of Palliative care in head & neck patients in a simplified and easily understandable language. It also gives description of different oral complications faced by head & neck carcinoma patients and their mangement. The booklet is supplemented with flow charts and tabulated information for easy understanding & quick referral by students and practicing clinicians. This booklet will serve as a basic guide for understanding the subject among students & a for patient management in clinical practice.

Implant radiology is an important offshoot of oral and maxillofacial radiology. This book covers the basic knowledge about implant imaging in a hierarchical manner beginning from two-dimensional to advanced imaging modalities with pros & cons of each modality. It will serve as a basic guide for oral radiologists and oral implantologists for pre implant planning as well as post implant assessment. This book uses a simplified language for better and easy understanding. It also presents various flow charts and diagrams to make the concept clearer.

Immunomodulation is an important growing field in therapeutics. It mainly focuses on modulation of patient immune system in the form of herbal or chemotherapeutics to prevent the initiation or halt the progression of various diseases. This booklet gives basic knowledge about different types of immunomodulators, their mechanism of action and indication in different diseases affecting orofacial region. The language of the book is simplified for better understanding of students as well as oral physicians.