The Dental Update Archive

One hundred patients with severe LD and behaviour that challenges attended Barts Health Dental Hospital, referred from North and East London between February 2014 and August 2015 for an initial dental...

Surgical procedures can generally be broken down into three phases: pre-operative; intra-operative; and post-operative procedures. The pre-operative phase for SRCReT should include a thorough history,...

Traditionally, our existing patient base refers our new patients to us. As a rule of thumb, if the referring patient is nice, the friend or family member is cut from a similar cloth. It's like a...

Fractured roots are mostly diagnosed shortly after injury although, if the patient does not attend the dentist at the time, they may sometimes be found at subsequent routine dental appointments....

The suggestion that smoking cessation could be split into five different stages was first described by Prochaska and DiClemente.4 In this article it is assumed that the model is in relation to smoking...

As with all patients who attend for an emergency appointment, it is important to carry out a brief history of the specific problem, noting any relevant medical conditions, before carrying out a...

The number of individuals undertaking surgical reconstructions has increased from 38% to 91% from 1995 to 2009,4 with the use of microvascular free flaps becoming more common. Surgically...

Appropriate immediate management of TDIs impacts prognosis and tooth survival. Tooth survival is widely defined in the endodontic literature as the functional retention of a tooth, with resolution of...