Oral Health
The dentist's role in smoking cessation management – a literature review and recommendations: part 2
The suggestion that smoking cessation could be split into five different stages was first described by Prochaska and DiClemente.4 In this article it...
Cognitive behavioural therapy and the adolescent patient
Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is a widely used and evidence-based psychological intervention (‘talking therapy’) that is recommended by the...
A case of extensive oral kaposi's sarcoma in a patient with undiagnosed HIV infection
A 25-year-old male presented to the Emergency Department of Royal Gwent Hospital with a 6 day history of dyspnoea, severe headaches and a...
The options for a tooth that requires root canal treatment
Root canal treatment and maintenance of the natural tooth has high success rates17,18,19 and high survival rates.14, 20,21,22,23,24,25,26 The natural...
The dentist's role in smoking cessation management — a literature review and recommendations: part 1
For over 200 years, there has been an ever-increasing body of evidence regarding the risks of tobacco use.1 Links between clay pipe smoking and...
The impact of medication on the periodontium: a review of the literature
Medications affecting the periodontium, summarized in Table 2, can be classified into four categories and are:.
The impact of diabetes on treatment in general dental practice
Although the exact cause of diabetes is unknown, there are defined risk factors, depending on the type of diabetes, which can, in different...
The risks of delayed oral cancer detection in primary care
We discuss the case of a 46-year-old male who presented to the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Department at Bedford General Hospital. He had...
Technique Tips: The Use of a Novel Primary Impression Technique in a Patient with Microstomia
A 75-year-old female attended as a new patient requesting upper and lower complete dentures. Her expectations of treatment were the restoration of...
Dental implants: what have we learnt from long-term follow-up?
Criteria for implant success were described in 1986 by Albrektsson et al,17 with failure due to bone loss being described as crestal bone height loss...
Management of enamel defects: a case report of identical twins with enamel defects of the permanent dentition
Cases 1 and 2 show the dentition of identical twins with enamel defects (Figures 1 and 3). No aetiological factors were identified in the history...
Dry mouth in children: an under-reported condition?
This article draws attention to dry mouth in children and young people by documenting four cases with different underlying medical conditions: a...
Tobacco habit-associated oral disease and the negative effects on surgical outcomes
It is not the authors' intention to give a detailed discussion of those tobacco-related systemic diseases that may have an indirect impact on the...
Sectional fixed appliance therapy in the mixed dentition
The fixed sectional appliance usually takes anchorage from the maxillary molars and has brackets bonded onto maxillary anteriors. The number of...
Letters to the editor
I read with interest the article by Shepherd and Ogden on alcohol and the dental team.1 Dental teams are in a unique position to provide brief advice...