Chris Deery
Professor/Honorary Consultant in Paediatric Dentistry, School of Clinical Dentistry, University of Sheffield
Black to Dental Update and beyond!
David NJ RickettsIn 1973 coincidently, the first national survey of children’s dental health in England and Wales was carried out and has been done so every 10 years since, informing the government and profession...
Fifty years of progress in paediatric dentistry
Laura TimmsOver the past 50 years, significant advances have been made in the understanding and treatment of different traumatic dental injuries (TDI). At the forefront of these developments has been Dr Jens...
Minimum intervention oral care delivery for children: developing the oral healthcare team
Sarah YoungIn England, Wales and Northern Ireland at a population level, the prevalence of dental caries in children is assessed by a national survey performed every 10 years. This Child Dental Health Survey...
Cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) in paediatric dentistry
Faith CampbellThe relative risk of radiation is higher for children since the cells are more susceptible to the stochastic effects of radiation. In addition, the child is more likely to live long enough to see the...
Restoration of the fractured permanent incisor in young patients
Fiona NobleIt has been observed that ‘significant pulp inflammation’ can only occur in the presence of bacteria, therefore the aim of the emergency treatment phase is to prevent the ingress of bacteria.15 In the...
Minimally Invasive Selective Caries Removal put into Practice
Bhupinder DawettDemineralised, carious dentine is radiolucent. This radiolucency remains if carious dentine is sealed under a restoration (Figure 11). Without an adequate understanding of this and the history of the...
A Practical Guide to Caries Prevention in Children
Mishaal RashidDental caries continues to be a prevalent disease among children. The most recent Child Dental Health Survey showed that nearly half (46%) of 15 year olds and one-third (34%) of 12 year olds had...
COVID-2019 – Time to Use Silver Diamine Fluoride for Caries Arrest in General Dental Practice?
Laura TimmsSilver diamine fluoride (SDF) has been used for caries management throughout the world for decades.1,2 It has a strong track record of use, particularly in Asia, having been developed in Japan in the...
Bitewing Radiography for Caries Diagnosis in Children: When and Why?
Laura TimmsKidd and Pitts's 1990 literature review concluded that bitewing radiography is essential to ensure proximal caries is not missed in the primary or permanent dentition.8 Most studies included in the...
Speech and the dental interface
Amy C HydeThe aetiology of speech disorders is complex and multifactorial, however, it is well documented that the development of speech and speech disorders have a genetic component. Four chromosomal regions...
How to minimize repeat dental general anaesthetics
Jennifer LawsonThe 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...
An overview of preformed metal crowns part 1: conventional technique
Helen J RogersA 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...
An overview of preformed metal crowns part 2: the hall technique
Amy C HydeWhile 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...