The Dental Update Archive

A 3-year-old Caucasian female presented to the Maxillofacial Department with a three-week history of swelling of the left cheek. On examination there was a bony hard swelling buccal to the lower left...

Kidneys filter the blood and, in so doing, remove the waste products of metabolism. It is important to appreciate the multiple functions that the kidneys normally carry out:1.

A questionnaire (Figure 1) was sent to 638 GDPs in the West Midlands in February 2010. Details of the GDPs in the West Midlands area were manually searched using the online General Dental Council...

Recently, the United States (US) Centre for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention reported an increased incidence of a fatal respiratory disorder from a tertiary care centre in Virginia, where nine of...

The publication by NICE of the Technology Appraisal 249 in March 20126 recommended dabigatran etexilate as a treatment option for the prevention of stroke and systemic embolism in patients with...

A healthy 6-year-old boy complained of painful gums in the region of his upper right back tooth for 2 weeks. The pain was dull, localized and non-radiating, and exaggerated on chewing on that side or...

It is now well understood that periodontal health is a balance between the microbial biofilm (Figure 1) and the host response, and bacterial dysbiosis, or a change in this balance, may lead to both...

There are many causes of neutropenia, with drug-induced and autoimmune being the most commonly recognized. Primary neutropenias are uncommon and the benign familial variety is recognized as an...

Pain is defined as ‘an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage or described in terms of such damage’.2 This is an over-simplification of the...