The Dental Update Archive

Premature loss of primary teeth can occur for a number of reasons, such as dental caries, trauma and ectopic eruption of permanent teeth.2,7 The effects on the permanent dentition can potentiate or...

Lymphoma is a malignancy characterized by the excessive production of B or T lymphocytes. Lymphoid malignancies are generally classified as leukaemia, if they primarily involve the blood and bone...

There are numerous treatment approaches which have been suggested in the literature and are categorized into the following methods: behavioural, pharmacological and non-pharmacological. Importantly,...

Knowledge of the common risk factors for head and neck cancer can enable dental practitioners to consider the individualized risk levels of their patients and enable them to offer specific and...

The wide range of rubber dam materials and equipment described in part one1 is accompanied by a range of placement techniques. However, there are only three principal options for rubber dam...

Prescribed medications are used to reduce the risk of a thrombo-embolic event. A thrombus is most likely to occur within a damaged vessel or heart wall. The pathologist Rudolph Virchow adopted a triad...

Chlorhexidine has been shown to be an effective antimicrobial against Streptococcus mutans. However, there is a lack of evidence that chlorhexidine is effective as an anticaries agent.20 Owing to the...

In conscious sedation, the drugs most often used are Nitrous Oxide and Oxygen for inhalational sedation and Midazolam for intravenous sedation. The properties of these two most commonly used drugs are...

Desquamative gingivitis can be caused by numerous conditions. These include dermatoses such as oral lichen planus (OLP), mucous membrane pemphigoid (MMP), pemphigus vulgaris (PV), epidermolysis...

The recurrent waves of COVID infections we are witnessing now, particularly in the developed world where vaccines are readily available, have been termed the ‘pandemic of the unvaccinated’ because it...