The Dental Update Archive

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

A. First sort out the source of the pain..

For small lesions, a minimally invasive approach should be taken. This requires promotion of natural remineralization and lesion arrest, ensuring cavity seal and restoration of tooth form without...

A 12-year-old boy attended the Department of Paediatric Dentistry for assessment of his discoloured teeth. He was fit and well. He did not like the appearance of his front teeth and, for that reason,...

Survival rates for mouth and oropharyngeal cancers have risen slightly over the last 20 years. The best outcome for overall 5-year survival rates for treated oral cancers is over 90% for lip cancer....

The biological approach to caries management centres around the plaque biofilm. It is this biolfilm that drives the caries process (Figure 5); thus, by changing the environment in which the biofilm is...

A 43-year-old male patient was referred by his dentist to a large teaching hospital with a suspected perforation in 2010. This may have occurred during endodontic treatment or post preparation to the...

BCC is the most common type of skin cancer on the sun-exposed areas of face, head and neck. It accounts for about 75% of non-melanoma skin cancers.1,2 BCC presents as an epidermal neoplasm; a...

The GDC states that ‘You must make and keep complete and accurate patient records, including an up-to-date medical history, each time that you treat patients’.4.