The Dental Update Archive

In aiming to achieve efficient aesthetic results, a clinical problem which is often difficult to solve may have to be faced, namely the ‘dark halo’, which may accompany Classes III and IV composite...

The timeline,1 incorporating Figures 1–3, illustrates the rich history of modernizing technology and ergonomic designs incorporated into the dental handpiece. Over the last 140 years our handpieces...

An 80-year-old female patient presented complaining of a loose lower front tooth. She explained that the tooth had become progressively loose and, although currently asymptomatic, she had suffered...

Occlusal schemes are likely to vary between an implant and natural tooth due to the lack of periodontal ligament. The ‘functional ankylosis’ term was coined to accurately describe the relationship of...

A 20-year-old male patient presented complaining of a fractured upper central incisor, which had been traumatized playing football 3 years prior to the consultation. The patient had a history of...

The translucency of glass ceramic materials depends largely on the volume of crystals within the glassy matrix and the pore size.2 Zirconia has been regarded as an opaque restorative material with...

Four commonly available fruit smoothies were investigated in this study:.

The caries process is a ubiquitous, natural process occurring in the biofilm. This community of micro-organisms is always metabolically active, causing minute fluctuations in pH. Where oral hygiene is...

The pathogenesis is a T cell-mediated autoimmune reaction. Once activated, these cells migrate to the oral epithelium aided by specific signalling pathways (CXR3 and CCR5). This is compounded by...

Tooth wear, or as it is also often referred to as non-carious tooth surface loss (TSL), can be described simply as ‘the pathological non-carious loss of tooth tissue’.1.