The Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, Saveetha Dental College conducted Histopathology Slide Series, Part 3 Soft tissue Pathology on on 22nd November 2016 (Tuesday) between 9:00 AM and 3:00 PM. Slide viewing and diagnosis is an integral part of the field of Oral Pathology as Histopathology is the gold standard for Diagnosis.Hence following the previous 2 parts of Slide reading, the next was on soft tissue pathology.

Real Time Slide Viewing & Interactive Discussion by was done Dr. S.Vidhya Lakshmi MD (Path), Post Doc Fellow (Oncopathology) Assoc.Professor, Department of Pathology,

PSG Institute of Medical Sciences & Research, Peelamedu, Coimbatore followed by Dr. M.P. Brundha MD (Path), DNB Asst Professor, Department of Pathology, Saveetha Medical College, Chennai. The session was moderated by Moderated by Dr. Pratibha Ramani MDS, DNB, PhD Professor and Head, Department of Oral Pathology Saveetha Dental College, Chennai.

The afternoon session involved facilitator mediated small group interactive slide viewing. The participants were divided into ten groups and provided individual microscopes and slides so as to understand the slides further and clarify their doubts with the concerned facilitators. There was a highly interactive discussion following the slide viewing and many doubts were clarified by the moderators as soft tissue pathology is highly complicated and difficult to diagnose.