The Dental Update Archive

A 75-year-old gentleman presented to his general dental practitioner with symptoms of dry mouth. His mouth felt uncomfortable and his dentures felt loose (Figure 1). Past medical history included...

Literature linking tooth fracture and odontogenic cyst development is limited.1 Despite the patient's cyst establishment reaching a 10-year history, the relevant procedure had not been carried out due...

We investigated the success of paediatric dental treatment under IHS with nitrous oxide, as an alternative to GA, by a therapist. To register this service as a useful alternative to GA, we set a...

A 19-year-old male was referred in urgently by their general dental practitioner to the Oral Medicine department. The patient was initially seen in September 2018 and complained of a 2-month history...

The aim of this retrospective audit was to assess the quality of referrals sent to our department for potentially malignant oral, head and neck lesions and to analyse how the quality of the referral...

A 62-year-old female patient presented complaining of a lower complete denture that was unretentive whilst eating, which also caused pain and numbness to the lower jaw and lip. This problem started 3...

Cases 1 and 2 show the dentition of identical twins with enamel defects (Figures 1 and 3). No aetiological factors were identified in the history taken from the patients or their mother..

All dental restorations will ultimately suffer deterioration and degradation in clinical service.1,2,3 It has been suggested that the management of deteriorating restorations, that is restorations...

An array of new POC diagnostic tests are currently available. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) over 450 such tests have been...