The Dental Update Archive

Crohn's disease is the likely cause. This chronic inflammatory bowel disease affects any part of the gastro-intestinal tract causing abdominal pain, diarrhoea and weight loss and may be associated...

Readers may be interested to learn about a collaborative project between NHS Education for Scotland, the university dental schools and the dental therapy schools in Scotland – Scottish Dental...

In recent times, digitization has revolutionized the scope of dentistry. Digital dentistry has also gained a significant role in the field of forensic dental investigation, leading to the development...

The possible effects of radical surgery include altered oral anatomy, loss of teeth and anatomical structures, significant scarring and bulky flaps, loss or alteration of sensation, and trismus (Table...

Hereditary opalescent dentine was first used in 1936 to describe defects of dentine that were not associated with systemic disorders.3 The term ‘dentinogenesis imperfecta’ was then coined to describe...

A 24-year-old male was referred from the Oral and Maxillofacial Department to the Prosthodontics Unit to replace his missing UL1 to enhance the aesthetic appearance. The patient's records revealed...