Ewen McColl

Director of Clinical Dentistry; Peninsula Dental School, University of Plymouth

email: ewen.mccoll@plymouth.ac.uk

Who's to blame?

Sometimes nobody, but in a blame culture where there's a perception of blame, a claim may follow..

A Comprehensive Guide to Removable Partial Dentures. Part 2: Impressions, Laboratory Procedures, Insertion and Case Studies

When designing a tooth tissue-supported prosthesis, there are diverse theories guiding the allocation of support between the edentulous ridge and remaining teeth. These are stress equalization,...

A comprehensive guide to removable partial dentures. Part 1: patient selection, design principles and decision algorithms for component selection

In the diagnostic stage preceding the selection of a definitive/metal partial denture, a clinician must gather information including, general health, systemic conditions, medications, allergies as...

A waste of research?

RCCTs have been described by Brocklehurst and Hoare,9 as ‘the only research design that can demonstrate causality, that is, that an intervention causes a direct change in clinical outcome’. When...

Supracrestal tissue attachment: an update

The work that led to the term ‘biological width’ was based on the research of Gargiulo et al in 1961. This study researched the dimensions and relationship of the dentogingival complex on human...

Are Dermal Fillers Dentistry?

Recent social media influence has set up a world of aesthetic idealism, whereby rises in demand for non-surgical cosmetic treatment to cater for the unrealistic desire of ‘perfection’ has meant that...

Enamel Matrix Derivative Use in Dentistry: An Update

It is now well understood that periodontal health is a balance between the microbial biofilm (Figure 1) and the host response, and bacterial dysbiosis, or a change in this balance, may lead to both...