The Dental Update Archive

Examination of the patient begins with an extra-oral assessment. A standard approach, including checking for any swellings of the head and neck region and palpation of the temporomandibular joints and...

Eliciting a good clinical history from the patient is essential in diagnosing burning mouth syndrome. Most patients report an increase in pain intensity from morning to night, similar to other...

Modern dental material and light-curing technology developments are often based on improving convenience for the dental practitioner.

Moving on, dentine bonding agents became classified into generations,6 but this means of identifying different groups of bonding agents was considered to have fallen into disarray7 because of...

The intra-radicular materials include the root canal sealers and the materials used for apical plugs. The properties of these materials are very diverse. The requirements of hydraulic cements used for...

A 9-year-old boy was referred from a local hospital to the Department of Paedodontics, Government Dental College, Trivandrum with pain and swelling in relation to the right side of the lower jaw. The...

An 18-year-old male was referred to the trauma clinic of the Dublin Dental Hospital one month after an alleged assault..

The following case describes a 10-year-old boy with a history of complicated crown fracture to UL1 which he had sustained 48 hours previously. The fractured fragment had been stored in milk since the...