The Dental Update Archive

It may be difficult to decide whether or not to replace missing posterior teeth. The shortened dental arch (SDA) concept provides one potential management option for such a scenario. It is a treatment...

Following consultation with the Smoke-Free Birmingham team, a paper-based pilot questionnaire was devised and distributed amongst 10 students and staff to ensure that the questionnaire would give the...

An 8-year-old male presented to a private paediatric practice in London with a swelling or ‘ball’ on the ventral surface of his tongue. Medical history was not significant. History of trauma to the...

Criteria for implant success were described in 1986 by Albrektsson et al,17 with failure due to bone loss being described as crestal bone height loss of greater than 0.2 mm per year after the first...

It is essential to carry out a full trauma assessment prior to restoring the teeth, including sensibility testing, radiographs and clinical photographs..

Management of a patient with severe toothwear requiring crown lengthening surgery will require a number of planning stages:.

Patient HG first attended in October 2012. Her presenting complaints were that she was missing her UR1, use of an upper partial denture, and that she felt that her upper canine tooth ‘stuck out’....

The term ‘aphasia’, or the older term ‘dysphasia’, is used to identify the disorder of the use of words or symbols.1 Also, the term ‘dysphasia’ is easily confused with ‘dysphagia’, a swallowing...