The Dental Update Archive

It was wonderful to see the Hawlix, an aesthetic and prosthetic orthodontic retainer that we previously introduced for patients with bounded saddles,1,2 featured in a recent narrative review.3.

Saliva is essential to oral health. Low salivary flow (hyposalivation) causes lack of mucosal wetting, lubrication and defences, which affects many functions, and can predispose to infections..

Many diseases of, or in, the jaws present asymptomatically, as radiolucencies, radio-opacities or with mixed appearances on radiographs. Other presentations are as swellings, pain or sometimes...

Regarding overdentures: Obtaining a good peripheral seal is easy with these. A flangeless tooth set-up should never be considered. These sit over retained roots or severely worn teeth...

‘Time may change me, but I can’t trace time' ‘Changes’. David Bowie, 1972..

Dental practitioners are required to have in place effective ways of ensuring safety and quality, encompassing a whole range of issues including staffing, procurement, infection control, and complaint...

‘Clinical audit is at the heart of clinical governance’ and ‘It provides the mechanisms for reviewing the quality of everyday care provided to patients’. In addition, ‘It addresses quality issues...

The requesting party will instruct the practitioner, usually by letter but increasingly by email, clearly stating what is required and what issues are to be addressed in his/her report.