Martin G.D. Kelleher

Consultant in Restorative Dentistry, GKT Dental Institute of King's College London, Royal Surrey, Kent and Canterbury Hospitals

McNamara's Fallacies in Dentistry. 2: Tooth Surface Loss Fallacies

One shibboleth is that tooth surface loss is always multifactorial. That is true sometimes – but not often – and certainly not always. For instance, one simple diagnostic clue is that if the length of...

‘McNamara's’ and Other Fallacies in Dentistry: Part 1

A McNamara's fallacy is named after Robert McNamara (1916–2009). He was the US Secretary of State during the presidencies of John F Kennedy (often referred to as ‘JFK’), and also of Lyndon Baines...

A restorative approach to the clinical and aesthetic management of adult patients with class ii division 2 incisor malocclusions



‘The permanent mandibular incisors occluding posterior to the cingulum plateau of retroclined permanent maxillary incisors.’
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Bleaching and bonding for the older patient

The efficacy of nightguard vital bleaching has been established in multiple randomized, double blind, controlled clinical trials.3–4 Nightguard vital bleaching was first popularized by Haywood and...