FJ Trevor Burke
Fifty years of glass ionomers (GICs). Are the latest GICs suitable for restoring back teeth?
FJ Trevor BurkeGlass ionomer materials were first described in a patent in 1969,1 with the first publication being in 1972 by Wilson and Kent.2 They were originally considered to be a development of silicate...
Letters to the editor
FJ Trevor BurkeI 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
FJ Trevor BurkeThis 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?
Ewen McCollRCCTs 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
FJ Trevor BurkeAs 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
FJ Trevor Burke
‘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
FJ Trevor BurkeMoving 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...