The Dental Update Archive

‘Life, is of course a misnomer, since viruses, lacking the ability to eat or respire, are officially dead, which is in itself intriguing, showing as it does that the habit of predation can be...

There are a number of factors that can be screened as part of the social history when a patient attends for a dental check-up. The Faculty of General Dental Practitioners suggests factors, listed in...

In recent years, sepsis has quite rightly received widespread media coverage, raising the public's awareness of its dangers. Some ambulances are even displaying NHS warnings on the side of the...

The fixed sectional appliance usually takes anchorage from the maxillary molars and has brackets bonded onto maxillary anteriors. The number of maxillary anteriors to be bonded varies according to the...

A major problem for the dentist in dealing with the midline diastema is the decision to intervene or not to intervene during the early mixed dentition period. As it is widely stated and presumed that...

The development of lingual appliances started in 1968 at Kanagawa University, Japan, when Kinya Fujita first submitted his lingual appliance concepts.7 He started the manufacture and use of his system...

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.

Type I diabetes is characterized by autoimmune destruction of β-cells that secrete insulin in the pancreas. The basis for autoimmune theory comes from inflammation within the islet of Langerhans. As...