Edwina Kidd
Professor of Cariology, Guy's, King's and St. Thomas' Schools of Medicine, Dentistry & Biomedical Sciences, Floor 25, Guy's Tower, Guy's Hospital, London Bridge, London SE1 9RT
Letters to the editor
Edwina KiddCan it really be 50 years since Ted Renson walked into the staff room at The London Hospital carrying the first Dental Update? What a revelation to our black and white publishing world:...
Book review
Edwina KiddJo Frencken wrote this book in early retirement holed up in New York Dental School courtesy of Mark Wolf. It is about his Life's Work on Atraumatic Restorative Treatment (ART). NYU provided the...
Book review
Edwina KiddThis new cariology text seeks to explain the biological background of dental caries and the formation of carious lesions to provide the practitioner and student reader with the basis to understand...
Winnie-the-pooh and the royal college of surgeons
Edwina Kidd
‘You can’t be in London for a long time without going to the Zoo. There are some people who begin the Zoo at the beginning, called WAYIN, and walk as quickly as they can past every cage until they...
Infected dentine revisited
Edwina KiddDental caries is a result of dynamic processes occurring in a dental biofilm. It is a chemical dissolution brought about by metabolic activity in the microbial deposit (biofilm or plaque) covering a...
Changing concepts in cariology: forty years on
Edwina Kidd
Forty years on, when afar and asunder Parted are those who are reading today, When you look back, and forgetfully wonder What you were like in your work and your play, Then, it may be, there will...
Should deciduous teeth be restored? reflections of a cariologist
Edwina KiddThe caries process is a ubiquitous, natural process occurring in the biofilm. This community of micro-organisms is always metabolically active, causing minute fluctuations in pH. Where oral hygiene is...