Without patient consent, no clinical images should be taken. The Institute of Medical Illustrator's code of practice (1986) advises that informed...

The World Health Organization1 describes health in holistic terms as ‘a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing and not merely the...

The importance of optimal plaque control and oral hygiene practices is universally accepted. Facilitating effective self-performed oral hygiene...

I and the team at Dental Update are delighted to welcome Ian to the Dental Update Editorial Board. Ian qualified from Leeds in 1998 and went into...

In 2011, a 32-year-old patient was referred to the University Dental Hospital of Manchester (UDHM) for restoration of dental implants. In 2007, the...

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The following systemic factors will be briefly discussed to establish the association between them and various forms of periodontitis. The aim is not...

This stimulus for the present publication is primarily the publication of the New 2017 Classification of Periodontal Diseases.7 Of course, a new...

Periodontal and endodontic diseases are both of bacterial origin. It is the formation of a biofilm (aggregation of micro-organisms in an extracellular...

After carrying out the necessary special investigations and diagnosing either gingivitis or periodontitis, the clinician should explain to the patient...

Gingival recession has a complex and multifactorial aetiology. If left to progress, its sequelae can include dentine hypersensitivity, tooth abrasion,...

Over the last decade, there has been an exponential increase in evidence relating nutritional status and supplementation to periodontal disease...

In the early 1970s, two chemists at the ICI Petrochemical and Polymer Laboratory in Runcorn, Edward (Ed) Dart and Joseph (Joe) Nemcek, developed a...