Oral Cancer
Exploring barriers to tobacco smoking cessation in minority ethnic patients in the UK
The first cases of smoking tobacco in England date back to the 1500s when sailors brought tobacco back from the Americas where it had been used...
A delayed and difficult diagnosis of oral squamous cell carcinoma: a case report
A 47-year-old fit and well male patient, who was also a non-smoker, was initially referred on a two-week wait referral pathway after his GDP noted an...
Why does patient mental health matter? Part 1: The scope of psychiatry within dentistry
Poor mental health is common. In the UK, one in four people will experience a mental health problem within a given year, and the annual prevalence is...
An update on record keeping
One way for dentists to ensure that all relevant information is recorded is to use automatic templates with text prompts. Given the busy lives of...
Minimum intervention oral care delivery for children: developing the oral healthcare team
In England, Wales and Northern Ireland at a population level, the prevalence of dental caries in children is assessed by a national survey performed...
Are Dermal Fillers Dentistry?
Recent social media influence has set up a world of aesthetic idealism, whereby rises in demand for non-surgical cosmetic treatment to cater for the...
Letters to the Editor
I still cannot get my head around the fact that UDAs are still being perceived by the government as the best option. The pilots have all ended with no...
How to Maximize the Usefulness of Behaviour Change Conversations with Patients during Routine Dental Consultations
Routine dental check-ups in the NHS offer important opportunities for ongoing intervention, potentially occurring routinely throughout patients'...
Osteoradionecrosis in the Current Era of Radiation Treatment
Although ORN is a well-recognized condition, no international agreed definition exists. In the UK, the most commonly accepted ORN description is ‘an...
Mouth preparation for complete dentures
Xerostomia is defined as an unstimulated salivary flow rate less than 0.1 ml/min or a stimulated salivary flow less than 0.2 ml/min. Xerostomia has...
Raising awareness of acute onset of swelling and lip paraesthesia in a teenage patient
In 2016, the World Health Organization updated its classification of renal tumours and expanded on the various subtypes.1 Renal cell carcinoma is the...
Not all swellings are dental abscesses: A cautionary tale
A 48-year-old female patient presented to the emergency department with a right-sided facial swelling in November 2018. She described a 6-week history...