The Dental Update Archive

Peri-radicular surgery is indicated in situations when repeat orthograde endodontic treatment is not possible or may put a tooth at risk of irreparable damage. In 2001, The Royal College of Surgeons...

The reason that erupting teeth are more vulnerable to developing caries is not complicated. Carvalho and colleagues suggested it is simply that plaque accumulates more readily on occlusal surfaces...

There have been a number of publications relating to operator safety.3,4,5,6,7 These papers conclude that the operator dose using these systems is similar to the doses an operator would receive if...

Risk assessment is the foundation stone for prevention, employing the latest evidence base to identify those patients who have a higher likelihood of developing a specific disease, then providing them...

Medications affecting the periodontium, summarized in Table 2, can be classified into four categories and are:.

The main learning objectives of this guide are to:.

A fit and well 16-year-old white male was referred by his general dental practitioner complaining that his front teeth did not meet. There was a history of digit sucking until the age of 5 years....

Most dermatological diagnoses, just like most dental ones, are not fatal and, in general, treatment for skin disease is symptomatic, and based on the ‘here and now’.

There are five questions that we should first address in critiquing existing LA practice and assess if there is need for improvement..

A 27-year-old female presented to the hospital with a 5-day history of a painful swelling on the left of the midline of the hard palate, which appeared spontaneously and was intensely painful on...