Parmjit Singh

Specialist Registrar, The Ipswich Hospital and The Royal London Hospital

Dental trauma 2: acute management of fracture injuries

An infraction is an incomplete fracture (crack line) of the enamel without loss of any tooth structure.2Figure 1 shows the UL1 with an infraction in the incisal third..

Dental trauma part 1: acute management of luxation/displacement injuries

The aim in managing an acute traumatic dental injury is to restore the appearance and function and to rehabilitate the patient as quickly as possible in the quest to save teeth.1 The long-term aims...

An ectopic tooth concealing an odontogenic myxoma

A 13-year-old female had noticed a gradually increasing swelling around the right cheek. She was sufficiently concerned to visit her general dental practitioner, where a peri-apical radiograph was...

Lingual orthodontics: an overview

Once bonding to enamel became established, several orthodontists, working independently in different parts of the world, experimented with the possibility of a fixed lingual appliance..