The Dental Update Archive

The provision of dental implants on the NHS is limited to patients meeting certain eligibility criteria in secondary care centres. Funding is often tightly controlled and, in many institutions, is...

A 7-year-old boy was referred to the Paediatric and Adult Dental Traumatology Clinic Faculty of Dentistry, Universidad de Chile, with a history of paediatric dental trauma caused by an accident on a...

A 61-year-old carpenter was referred to the oral and maxillofacial department by his GDP in March 2011 regarding an asymptomatic ‘white patch’ on the hard palate. Otherwise unaware of the lesion or...

Anterior crossbite occurs when one, or more, lower incisor teeth occlude anterior to the upper incisor teeth. If left untreated, it may cause attrition to the labial surface of the upper incisor,...

Good communication with the dental technician and attention to detail are important in the successful provision of RBBs. A pontic design should be prescribed to the technician, as well as the required...

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a collective term for diseases of the heart and blood vessels. It includes coronary artery disease, such as angina and myocardial infarction, as well as other...

Moving on, dentine bonding agents became classified into generations,6 but this means of identifying different groups of bonding agents was considered to have fallen into disarray7 because of...

The suture thread material can be natural or synthetic, absorbable or non-absorbable, mono-filament or multi-filament. Absorbable sutures are eliminated by different types of degradation, according to...

The aetiology of CRR is difficult to determine with certainty. In most cases a causal relation can be established, with different local predisposing factors such as dental trauma,3 orthodontic...