The Dental Update Archive

As discussed by Johnston et al in a 2015 British Dental Journal article, the risk of orthodontic relapse due to the age-related changes in the skeletal and soft tissues surrounding the teeth means...

In 2018, the National Advisory Board for Human Factors in Dentistry (NABHFD) was set up at the suggestion of the General Dental Council after registrants felt that patient safety and the role of human...

The oral and maxillofacial region can be treated with stem cells from the following sources:.

The UK Department of Health (DoH) became responsible for healthcare in prisons in 2003, taking over from the Home Office. Dental Care in prisons is commissioned from the DoH specification,2 introduced...

Two versions of this article exist. The first was written after countless hours spent collating (and translating!) standard operating procedures (SOPs) from around the world. These were then presented...

‘In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals as they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.’ .

The application of light is routinely used by dentists, for example, in the curing (photopolymerization) of light-activated, resin-based restorations, caries detection and, more recently, ablative...

In normal function, teeth have the greatest forces applied to them as a result of mastication of food. For individual teeth, the ideal occlusal contact distributes the force down the long axis of the...

Biopsies of suspicious lesions are vital in the grading and staging of cancers, giving an indication of the type, prognosis and rate of spread of the lesion.4 This is generally more straightforward...

A literature search using PRISMA methodology was conducted on pharmaceutical waste, full details of which can be obtained from the authors. In total, 34 papers were analysed, and the findings are...