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SARS-CoV-2 omicron variant and the future of the pandemic
COVID-19 Commentary Lakshman SamaranayakeBefore we discuss the various viral variants, it is instructive to evaluate their societal impact. Not the least because we may have to confront various, yet to emerge SARS-CoV-2 variants or...
Personal development plans (in primary dental care) – getting started
Postgraduate Development Alasdair G MillerPersonal development plans (PDPs) have been in existence for many years in many guises. The New Year's resolution is, in many respects, an example of a plan. In its simplest form, a PDP is a list of...
Body dysmorphic disorder and aesthetic dentistry
Aesthetic Dentistry Suzanne E ScottThe diagnostic criteria for BDD are outlined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Diseases, version 4.0.1 The criteria are:.
The application of clinical audit to improve pain control following third molar surgery
Oral Surgery Catherine BryantThe demographics of patients recruited to the three audits are shown in Table 1 and the levels of pain that they experienced in Table 2..
’Educating the educated’: a report of an undergraduate medical student with multiple carious lesions and poor dietary habits
Patient Management Amardeep Singh DhadwalA 22-year-old female attended the undergraduate restorative clinic for a general check-up at Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry. Having last visited a dentist two years previously,...
Grey Areas in Restorative Dentistry: Part 2. The Diagnosis: Dental Pain
Restorative Dentistry Robert L CaplinThis process begins with the presenting condition of the patient. We can hear patients when we are told a history of the complaint, but if we listen carefully and ask appropriate questions, they will...
Designing written patient information in primary dental care: the right tools for the job
Dental Public Health Ross OC ElledgeAn important consideration in an increasingly multi-cultural society in the United Kingdom is that patient information should be culturally sensitive, that is it should be targeted to the...
Letters to the Editor
Letters Shamir B MehtaWe read with interest, Professor Burke's comments about our research article, reporting on the performance of directly bonded resin composite restorations placed at an increased occlusal vertical...
Using Inhalation Sedation for Oral Surgery
Oral Surgery Charlotte RichardsMany patients are anxious about dental extractions and are unable to tolerate treatment under local anaesthetic alone. There are many cohorts of patients where operator-sedationist treatment with...
Loss of deciduous teeth – is timing important to the gdp?
Paediatric Dentistry Rebekka NunnEruption can be defined as ‘the biological process that follows the formation of the dental crown and is essentially penetration of the covering oral mucosa by any part of a single tooth’.2 The time...