We are Oral and Maxillofacial (OMFS) Dental Core Trainees who proudly volunteered to work on the COVID-19 medical wards. Having worked over 7 months in OMFS and in general dental practice the year...

Is it not time that all patients accepted for treatment within dental practice are tested for the virus?.

I'd like to congratulate Dental Update on both its excellent Live Conference and its informative June edition. Both were opportune and welcome at a time when the profession was overwhelmed by a...

It was wonderful to see the Hawlix, an aesthetic and prosthetic orthodontic retainer that we previously introduced for patients with bounded saddles,1,2 featured in a recent narrative review.3.

I read with interest the above article published in Dental Update (Dent Update 2020; 47: 334–341). I wholeheartedly agree that bitewing radiographs are the gold standard for diagnosis of proximal...

Since the implementation of the lockdown restrictions, the number of calls received by police regarding domestic abuse has risen by one third.1.

The recent coronavirus outbreak has forced the NHS to adapt faster than ever before. Healthcare professionals from all areas have been left with many questions surrounding the uncertainties that lie...

In the context of COVID-19, non-aerosol dentistry seems to have become the now recommended pathway for dental treatment and, in consequence, conservative, non-destructive, adhesive dentistry will very...

We read with interest the recent Dental Update article ‘Remote Working in Dentistry in a Time of Crisis’ and are in agreement with the authors that in a world that has become heavily reliant upon...

We would like to share our reflections on the current, unprecedented COVID-19 crisis from the perspective of a Dental Foundation Trainee (DFT)..

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) originates from a virus currently identified as SARS-CoV-2 (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2).1 The coronavirus is most abundant in the...

I read the guest editorial by Conor O'Malley in January's issue with a heavy heart. In his article, Conor gives a painfully honest account of his fitness to practice (FtP) case, and issues around it....

The recent guest editorial entitled, ‘Work Experience – Why should we bother?’ (Dent Update 2020; 47: 183-185) exemplifies the difficulties, of the not-so-distant past, that I encountered in securing...

We read with interest Manouchehri and Ali's case report of a glandular odontogenic cyst affecting the LR67 region.1 We too present a recent case of a glandular odontogenic cyst presenting in an...

In June 2019, the CQC released ‘Smiling Matters’ – a review into the state of oral healthcare in care homes across England. The report found that there was an extensive lack of awareness of NICE...