The Dental Update Archive

A 23-year-old male patient was referred to the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery by the GDP with a swelling in the lower right lateral incisor and lower right canine region with a duration...

The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AoMRC) published a document in 2015 entitled Safe Sedation Practice for Healthcare Procedures which defined conscious sedation as ’…a technique in which the use...

Abdominal spasms or cramping can be described as the involuntary contractions of the abdominal muscles that can also occur on the dental chair.1 This emergency must therefore be included as one other...

Literature linking tooth fracture and odontogenic cyst development is limited.1 Despite the patient's cyst establishment reaching a 10-year history, the relevant procedure had not been carried out due...

The patient, a 54-year-old woman, required the prosthetic rehabilitation of her upper and lower Kennedy's Class II, modification 1 type ridges (with unilateral distal extensions). It was planned to...

The aim of endodontic treatment, or retreatment, is to reduce the microbial load within the root canal system sufficiently to enable the host response to favour periapical healing.1 According to...

A 53-year-old female patient was referred to the Department of Endodontics for the management of the lower incisors (LL1, LL2 and LR1). She gave a history of RCT carried out several years previously...

A 35-year-old female was referred to the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Department with symptoms suggestive of TMJ dysfunction syndrome. An incidental radio-opaque lesion was seen on the...

Patient A, a 39-year-old male of Afro-Caribbean descent, presented with a left maxillary swelling and associated extra-oral discharging sinus (Figure 1). Of note, his social history included alcohol...

I would like to draw the attention of readers to a new artefact source that may start to be seen more regularly. In the current era of the COVID-19 pandemic, the uptake of wearing masks has...