The Dental Update Archive

The effluent organisms from DUWLs essentially originate from the biofilms on the luminal surface of the water line. Biofilms are defined as an organized community of microbes attached to a biotic or...

In March 2000 the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) issued guidance on the extraction of wisdom teeth. This guidance stressed the discontinuation of prophylactic surgical...

The coronectomy technique was initially described by Ecuyer and Debien in 1984,7 although more informal use of ‘partial odontectomy’ predates this description.8 The procedure has evolved from initial...

Body mass index is the commonest used tool to describe patient weight. It is a simple height to weight index (mass in kg/height in metres2) used to classify whether an adult's weight is underweight,...

A 58-year-old female patient presented at an oral and maxillofacial outpatient clinic with a nine-month history of pain, swelling and draining fistulas at the right angle of mandible and submental...

A 10-year-old boy attended our hospital orthodontic department following a referral from his dentist. He was unhappy with the appearance of his upper front teeth, particularly the diminutive shape of...

Vaccines and vaccination procedures have had their fair share of proponents and opponents since their introduction some two centuries ago by Edward Jenner, in the UK, to prevent smallpox. This said,...

BIPP was first used by Rutherford Morison in 1916 to dress soldiers' wounds.2 He found that when bismuth and iodoform were mixed with paraffin, it permitted a healing response and reduced infection...

GCA commonly affects the external carotid branches and the subclavian arteries. The inflammation of the arterial wall starts in the outermost layer, the tunica adventitia and works its way past the...