The Dental Update Archive

‘I am writing in support of the idea of including clinical experiences to help avoid adverse clinical situations: having been qualified for 6 years, I know that informal peer to peer sharing of near...

Oral malodour, or halitosis, is a common complaint in adults, though few mention it, and can have a range of causes (Table 1). With oral malodour from any cause, the patient may also complain of a bad...

We thank Mr Everatt for his letter criticizing our article. His concerns relate to our description of anterior bite plane type splints in general and to the use of the SCi splint in particular..

Red oral lesions are commonplace and usually associated with inflammation in, for example, mucosal infections. However, red lesions can also be sinister by signifying severe dysplasia in...

A 46-year-old woman was referred to the Orthodontic Department of Peterborough and Stamford Hospital by her general dentist, with a complaint of prominent and spaced upper incisor teeth. Clinical...

This patient with type 2 diabetes complains of pain in his right greater toe..

Since 1999, we have become used to the periodontal diseases classification system devised by Armitage.1 This defined periodontal diseases (but not, at that time, peri-implant diseases) into eight...