FJ Trevor Burke

Letters to the editor

I am delighted to welcome Dr Ewen McColl, Honorary Consultant/Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at the Peninsula Dental School, University of Plymouth to the Editorial Board of Dental Update..

Technique Tips: Glass ionomers in posterior teeth: a technique guide

This should have rounded internal cavity line angles. For Class II restorations, the manufacturers of one material, EQUIA Forte (GC, Leuven, Belgium) consider in their product profile3 that a cavity...

A waste of research?

RCCTs have been described by Brocklehurst and Hoare,9 as ‘the only research design that can demonstrate causality, that is, that an intervention causes a direct change in clinical outcome’. When...

Book review

As an enthusiast for (dental) practice-based research, I was delighted to receive a copy of this book. The principal authors have a background steeped in research, so they, plus their eight...

High and dry


‘We recognise that this decision will be disappointing for many of you. We are grateful for the hard work, commitment, and dedication that you and your team have put into the dental contract reform...

A practice-based clinical evaluation of a novel two-bottle dentine adhesive system

Moving on, dentine bonding agents became classified into generations,6 but this means of identifying different groups of bonding agents was considered to have fallen into disarray7 because of...