Philippa Hoyle

Specialty Registrar in Restorative Dentistry, Department of Restorative Dentistry, Charles Clifford Dental Hospital, 76 Wellesley Road, Sheffield S10 2SZ, UK (philippahoyle1@hotmail.co.uk)

Dental Implants for the General Dental Practitioner. Part 2: Complications, Management and Maintenance

Biological complications are multifactorial in origin, but primarily arise from plaque biofilm accumulation around the components of implants causing inflammation, bone loss and possibly leading to...

The Use of a Gothic Arch Tracing to Record Centric Relation in the Construction of Complete Dentures

Despite the diversity of opinion regarding the nature of CR,6 it has been used in restorative dentistry as a stable and reproducible position when registering the occlusion in the provision of...

Dental Implants for the general dental practitioner. Part 1: overview and assessment

Dental implants can be used to support single and multiple unit fixed restorations as well as removable dental prostheses. To appreciate the complications that can arise with dental implants, it is...

Assessment and management of endo-periodontal lesions

Periodontal and endodontic diseases are both of bacterial origin. It is the formation of a biofilm (aggregation of micro-organisms in an extracellular matrix attached to a solid surface) that...

Severe fluorosis treated by microabrasion and composite veneers

Three siblings presented, one brother aged 17 years, and two sisters aged 18 and 14 years-old. The family had originated from Nazareth, a town in the Ethiopian Rift Valley. All three siblings...