The Dental Update Archive

The vast majority of digital SLR cameras allow the operator to take images in a format that is referred to as the RAW format. Currently, each camera manufacturer has its own extension for captured...

Flowable composites can be traced back to the pioneering product, Revolution, offered on the dental market in 1992 by SDS/Kerr. The name of that first flowable resin restorative was well timed since,...

The conventional design for an anterior bridge will consist of an everStick C&B (GC) (or other) fibre bonded from the palatal side of the first retainer tooth bridging the space of the missing tooth...

This was a prospective study of 112 patients that was carried out over a 3-month period at the Department of Oral Surgery, King's College Hospital (KCH). The selection criteria included patients over...

The cost of hospital admissions for the treatment of caries in children in England in 2012/13 was £30 million7 and this increased to £35 million for tooth extractions in 2014/15.8 The rate of tooth...

This article draws attention to dry mouth in children and young people by documenting four cases with different underlying medical conditions: a microdeletion syndrome, salivary gland aplasia,...

Identification using dental data is not new. Historically, forensic dentistry has played a major role in identification methods. As far back as AD 50 in the time of the Emperor Nero, records show that...

Following removal of the rubber dam, the restorations were assessed to ensure that they conformed to the pre-existing anterior occlusal guidance. A photograph was taken (Figure 13) at this stage to...

A randomized controlled trial (RCT), conducted in the US Air Force Academy, investigated the effectiveness of preventative periodontal treatments in 713 participants over a 4-year period.17,18 Three...

Despite the diversity of opinion regarding the nature of CR,6 it has been used in restorative dentistry as a stable and reproducible position when registering the occlusion in the provision of...