The Dental Update Archive

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...

Most post removal systems work like corkscrews by creating opposing forces that can withdraw a post from the canal.1.

A healthy 7-year-old boy was referred to Liverpool Paediatric Dental Department by his GDP regarding the appearance of his recently erupted permanent maxillary central incisor teeth (Figure 1). Both...

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...

Since 1999, we have become used to the periodontal diseases classification system devised by Armitage.1 This defined periodontal diseases (but not, at that time, peri-implant diseases) into eight...

Orofacial granulomatosis was first described in 1985 by Weisenfeld et al, who reported 60 cases presenting with lymphoedema and the presence of multiple non-caseating giant cell granulomatous...

Increasing numbers of countries are implementing a sugar tax to try to reduce non-communicable disease rates since it is widely accepted that sugar, and not fat, is the bigger problem. Taxation of...

TC was a non-smoker and had never smoked and he drank no alcohol. He worked as a civil engineer and enjoyed spending time with his family in his spare time. He was fit and well, had no medical...

Studies have previously reported accidental analgesia overdoses in patients attempting to self-manage their dental pain because of difficulty in accessing emergency dental services.1,2 The UK and many...

In the past, dentine bonding agents were classified into generations.6 However, this means of identifying different groups of bonding agents generally fell into disarray because of confusion regarding...