The Dental Update Archive

The inhibition of the setting reaction of addition-cured silicones has wrongly been attributed to the use of various donning agents, such as corn starch and talcum powder, while other authors...

In the early days, clinicians who believed in this concept mostly depended on diagnostic wax-up and/or surgical templates made on hard gypsum surfaces of master casts3,4 (Figures 1 and 2). Although...

Oral and oropharyngeal cancers together are the sixth leading cancer in the world, with a wide geographical variation, although two-thirds of the cases occur in resource-poor countries, such as...

Radiation-induced caries describes the rapidly developing lesions that can appear after radiotherapy. Its distribution tends to be different from those carious lesions in the non-irradiated...

At the time of their introduction, the effectiveness of these vaccines in large population groups on a community-wide basis, was unknown.

This article, the first part of a two-part review, has outlined genetic/developmental disorders, specific infections and inflammatory and immune conditions that can affect the gingival tissues....