The Dental Update Archive

Ulceration is a breach in the oral epithelium, which typically exposes nerve endings in the underlying lamina propria, resulting in pain or soreness, especially on eating spicy foods or citrus fruits....

A sound knowledge of the physiology of haemostasis is important in understanding how haemorrhage may occur. A full description of the process is outside the remit of this paper; however, several key...

A jaw registration record can be made by the mandible closing in its retruded arc of closure with occlusal rims separating the maxilla and mandible at the selected occlusal vertical dimension (OVD).1.

The GDC's Scope of Practice describes the provision of implants as an additional skill that dentists could develop during their career.3 The Faculty of General Dental Practitioners (FGDP) implant...

Early LED units were low powered (<1 Watt total output from a 7–19 diode array) with relatively low irradiance levels (range 100–280 mW/cm2) requiring prolonged radiation times of up to 60 s for a 2...

Corrective surgical procedures are aimed at repairing root surfaces, modifying the anatomy of a root, or resecting either infected or damaged roots (± portion of the clinical crown). The types of...

Dental radiography, commonly in the form of peri-apical and dental panoramic radiographs, has limitations, such as anatomical noise from superimposition of orofacial structures, compression of...