There have been several attempts to classify chronic orofacial pain (OFP) conditions by pain associations. The most used main categories have either been topographical (odontogenic versus...

A 32-year-old female presented with a six-month history of increasing dento-facial asymmetry. This was associated with intermittent pain and crepitus of her left temporomandibular joint and limited...

The trigeminal nerve supplies general sensory supply to the face, scalp and mouth (Figure 1). A vast proportion of the sensory cortex represents the trigeminal input (over 50%).1.

Commonly used needles in dental practice in the UK include:4.

Pain is defined as ‘an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage or described in terms of such damage’.2 This is an over-simplification of the...

Prescribed medications are used to reduce the risk of a thrombo-embolic event. A thrombus is most likely to occur within a damaged vessel or heart wall. The pathologist Rudolph Virchow adopted a triad...

A sound knowledge of the physiology of haemostasis is important in understanding how haemorrhage may occur. A full description of the process is outside the remit of this paper; however, several key...

A common theme among these cases is airway compromise due to aggressive infection spreading through the soft tissue spaces in the oropharynx and neck. Figures 1 and 2 demonstrate several of the...

A 12-year-old Caucasian girl was referred to the oral and maxillofacial unit at Kent and Canterbury Hospital in April 2010 as her dentist was concerned about the delayed eruption of her permanent...

Patients were considered to have BRONJ if all of the following three characteristics are present:2.

The demographics of patients recruited to the three audits are shown in Table 1 and the levels of pain that they experienced in Table 2..

Some patients are more anxious than others about life events in general, including attending for dental treatment. This is described as trait anxiety.3 State anxiety is the heightened anxiety for a...

The prevention of inferior alveolar nerve injuries during third molar surgery may be possible by:.

Coronectomy is slowly emerging as a realistic alternative to mandibular third molar extraction in those patients judged at risk of IDN injury. The elective retention of the root remains a source of...

Perhaps our forefathers with their doorknobs and strings were on to something after all. It just took us a hundred years to finally realize!.