The Dental Update Archive

In 1995, the Department of Health asked the Clinical Standards Advisory Group (CSAG) to investigate cleft care provision in the UK and, following their extensive investigation, they published a number...

As per the FGDP (UK) Clinical Examination and Record-Keeping; Good Practice Guidelines 2016,6 when a patient attends a practitioner for the first time for a routine dental examination, an appraisal of...

Eating disorders are a group of psychopathological conditions that are characterized by irrational eating behaviours. The unhealthy diet choices that are characteristic of the conditions are often...

Category: anatomical variant..

In order to understand the underlying aetiology of the gagging response, we must first look at how it is initiated. This is an inborn defence mechanism which is controlled by the parasympathetic...

Developing your practice Vision is about setting inspirational direction to bring success in the future. A Vision will need more uplifting language than a performance target! Once more it is easy to...

A local drug delivery device consists of a drug reservoir and a limiting element that has a control over the amount of active ingredient released. This can be divided into two classes:.

Common conditions that occur during pregnancy may affect the patient's oral health and the dental care that they receive..

‘Probably no other technique, instrument or treatment in dentistry has been more universally accepted and advocated, and yet is so universally ignored by practising dentists. Many reasons can be...