Glass Ionomer Restorations
Management of molar–incisor hypomineralization and hypodontia in monozygotic twins: a case report
MIH studies indicate its multifactorial nature, involving genetic and environmental factors.1 Some risk factors for MIH development include urinary...
Root Caries Part 2: the Restorative Challenge
It is necessary to have well-defined criteria for deciding when to attempt to arrest and when to restore a RCL.12 There are a number of indications...
Tooth wear guidelines for the bsrd part 1: aetiology, diagnosis and prevention
Tooth wear, or as it is also often referred to as non-carious tooth surface loss (TSL), can be described simply as ‘the pathological non-carious loss...
Mouth cancer for clinicians part 13: life after mouth cancer treatment
Survival rates for mouth and oropharyngeal cancers have risen slightly over the last 20 years. The best outcome for overall 5-year survival rates for...
Overtreatment in caries management? a literature review perspective and recommendations for clinicians
Considerable variation exists between dentists on their treatment decisions regarding, among other things, the need for placing and replacing...
British society of prosthodontics debate on the implications of the minamata convention on mercury to dental amalgam – should our patients be worried?
The Minamata Convention on Mercury, a United Nations treaty signed on the 10 October 2013 by 128 signatory nations, including the UK, was designed to...
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:...
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,...
Infected dentine revisited
Dental caries is a result of dynamic processes occurring in a dental biofilm. It is a chemical dissolution brought about by metabolic activity in the...
The state-of-the-art of ART restorations
The indication for using ART was initially restricted to the treatment of cavitated teeth that would otherwise have been extracted in people from...
Dental materials – what goes where? the current status of glass ionomer as a material for loadbearing restorations in posterior teeth
The demand for tooth-coloured restorations in posterior teeth is increasing worldwide,1 with the principal alternative to amalgam being considered to...