The Dental Update Archive

A 14-year-old female patient who was asymptomatic, presented with a spring coil lodged in her parotid duct. She had a class II division I malocclusion. The treatment plan that she was undertaking,...

Canine development commences at 4–5 months of age, high in the maxilla, lateral to the piriform fossa, and has the longest path of eruption at 22 mm.6 Crown calcification starts at 1 year, between the...

A 63-year-old female patient presented complaining of chipping of her maxillary anterior teeth, aesthetic concerns regarding her worn mandibular incisors and of sensitivity to thermal stimuli. She...

Eliciting a detailed analgesic history is the first step in recognizing an overdose. Figure 1 gives a checklist of information for clinicians to gain from patients to aid when taking a history of...

The NHS was created in 1948 to provide a health service available to all and financed entirely through taxation. When first established, the oral health needs of the population were very different...

Forensic odontology (FO) is a dental specialism that has been used for hundreds of years, and dates back to 66AD.1 It involves a liaison between dental specialists and the judiciary system through the...

The Minamata Convention on Mercury, a United Nations treaty signed on the 10 October 2013 by 128 signatory nations, including the UK, was designed to protect human health and the environment from...

Since the implementation of the lockdown restrictions, the number of calls received by police regarding domestic abuse has risen by one third.1.

The ‘biologic width’ concept was first described by Gargiulo et al in 1961, following a histological study in human autopsy specimens, examining the relationship between the various components...

A 42-year-old woman presented to the oral and maxillofacial team via accident and emergency with an initial complaint of a dental abscess from the lower left quadrant that had been present for the...