A six-year-old boy was referred to the paediatric dental clinic for management of multiple carious lesions in his primary teeth. He had been diagnosed with high-functioning autism and was otherwise...

Oral and oropharyngeal mucositis occurs in 52–80% of children undergoing treatment for cancer.1 Mucositis is a debilitating condition which can be so severe that it can delay or stop oncology...

The cost of hospital admissions for the treatment of caries in children in England in 2012/13 was £30 million7 and this increased to £35 million for tooth extractions in 2014/15.8 The rate of tooth...

A 4-year-old boy (JJ) was referred to the Unit of Paediatric Dentistry at the University Dental Hospital, Cardiff by a consultant paediatrician regarding premature exfoliation of his primary teeth....

A 6-year-old female presented in the Emergency Department at Nottingham Queen's Medical Centre (QMC). Her mother reported a 2-week history of a persistent left facial swelling, which started as...

MIH is unique amongst developmental defects of systemic origin in that only the first permanent molars (FPMs), and sometimes the incisors, are affected. However, this definition has recently been the...

The dental team play a pivotal role in making a child's visit to the dentist a positive experience. It is often necessary to adapt communication and behaviour management techniques in order to ensure...

A medically fit 14-year-old boy was referred by his general dental practitioner to the Paediatric Dental Department at King's College Hospital, for the management of his unerupted LL5. No history of...

While the condition may be clinically apparent, diagnosis can be confirmed by referral to a paediatric dentist or orthodontist. Multidisciplinary management is aimed to stimulate the periodontal...

An electronic search of Ovid MEDLINE® (1946 to August 2014) and the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews was carried out, using the key words: amalgam, composite resin, glass-ionomer cement,...

The biological approach to caries management centres around the plaque biofilm. It is this biolfilm that drives the caries process (Figure 5); thus, by changing the environment in which the biofilm is...

An eight-year-old girl was referred to the School of Dentistry, Belfast regarding ‘enamel hypoplasia’. She had no complaints on presentation and was unconcerned about the appearance of her teeth, but...

A questionnaire study of a random sample of general dental practitioners (GDPs) drawn from the Midlands of England and Scotland reported 6% potentially using PMCs to restore primary teeth.9 An...

While undertaking a service review of child dental care in North-Eastern Scotland in the late 1990s, Dr Dafydd Evans (University of Dundee) and his co-workers found that one general dental...

A 6-year-old female (CB) was referred for the management of AI. It was reported that her father had suffered from a similar dental condition and that all his teeth had been extracted at an early age....