Sivakumar Jayachandran

Specialty Dentist and PhD Student, Prosthetic Dentistry, School of Dentistry, University of Birmingham, 5 Mill Pool Way, Edgbaston, Birmingham B5 7EG, UK

Complete denture series part 2: tips on how to correct 10 avoidable errors

Forty-one percent of failing complete dentures assessed at our New Patient Clinics between October 2016 and March 2017 showed poor adaptation to the denture-bearing area. This may result in a rocking...

Complete denture series part 1: referrals for complete dentures – identifying the reasons

The clinical records of edentulous patients referred and assessed on the New Patient Clinics at Birmingham Dental Hospital (BDH) between October 2016 and March 2017 were reviewed. A total of 71...

That first all important meeting with your patient!

The Adult Dental Health Survey 2009 reported an increase in the proportion of adults who had retained their teeth from 74% in 1978 to 86% in 2009.1 The increase has occurred mainly in the older age...