The Dental Update Archive

A 17-year-old female patient comes to your dental surgery for a routine examination. She is fit and well and has no medical conditions to report. Your initial impression is that she seems quite...

Facial aesthetics forms the frame of the smile with the lips and surrounding soft tissues, which vary from patient to patient and can change depending on various positions of speech and when smiling...

The first and most important step for both clinician and patient is the detailed investigation of why the patient is unhappy with his/her dental appearance.

A period of 6 months may be required (post-resection) before the definitive obturator can be constructed. However, this period of surgical healing will clearly differ between patients.4 The...

Training plates are prosthodontic appliances that are used to prepare the patient for prosthodontic treatment. This appliance has the effect of acclimatizing the patient to the feel of the denture in...

Under IR(ME)R 2000, justification for any medical ionising radiation exposure is required and should be documented.4 In compliance with IR(ME)R regulations, dose optimization should be employed to...

Demineralised, carious dentine is radiolucent. This radiolucency remains if carious dentine is sealed under a restoration (Figure 11). Without an adequate understanding of this and the history of the...

A well-supported denture will have resistance to movement into the denture-bearing tissues..

Although remote working is already used in many industries, it has not previously been widely used in healthcare. During COVID-19 it has been necessary to rethink many conventional ways of working,...