Natalie Jenkins

Community Dental Officer, Derbyshire Community Health Services Foundation Trust, Swadlincote Dental Clinic, Swadlincote Health Centre, Civic Way, Swadlincote, Derbyshire, DE11 0AE, UK

Materials for paediatric dentistry part 1: background to the treatment of carious primary teeth

An electronic search of Ovid MEDLINE® (1946 to August 2014) and the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews was carried out, using the key words: amalgam, composite resin, glass-ionomer cement,...

Materials for paediatric dentistry part 2: the evidence

The biological approach to caries management centres around the plaque biofilm. It is this biolfilm that drives the caries process (Figure 5); thus, by changing the environment in which the biofilm is...