Implants

Publicity?



There's no such thing as bad publicity (except your own obituary!) Dominic Behan. My Brother Brendan (1963)

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Current applications and future prospects of stem cells in dentistry

The oral and maxillofacial region can be treated with stem cells from the following sources:.

Regulators and regulations: who will guard the guards? (or ‘quis custodiet ipsos custodes’ as old juvenal used to say)

Good question and it probably happened because of the ‘law of unintended consequences’ (Merton, 1936).4.

Rehabilitation of oncology patients with hard palate defects part 2: principles of obturator design

Defects have been successfully managed with obturators (Latin: ‘obturare’ meaning ‘to block up’) for many years. Ambroise Pare was probably the first...

Dementia and dentistry

Dementia is going to affect us all: either in the patients we treat, as sufferers ourselves or as carers for our loved ones. The dental team needs to...

Essentials of medical history-taking in dental patients

Much of the medical assessment of a patient is derived from the history. Some underlying conditions may be of direct relevance to the safe management...

The francis report – implications for oral care of the elderly

The vast report is but words on a page until a personal connection can be made to the events it describes. The transcripts describe real people who...

Rehabilitation of oncology patients with hard palate defects part 1: the surgical planning phase

The number of individuals undertaking surgical reconstructions has increased from 38% to 91% from 1995 to 2009,4 with the use of microvascular free...

Maintenance periodontal therapy after systemic antibiotic and regenerative therapy of generalized aggressive periodontitis. A case report with 10-year follow-up

Initially, the patient was treated with a non-surgical scaling and root planing performed in four sessions with weekly intervals. Then, at the end of...

Salutary lessons


‘The first requirement of a hospital is that it should do no harm’
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An update on crown lengthening part 2: increasing clinical crown height to facilitate predictable restorations

The ‘biologic width’ concept was first described by Gargiulo et al in 1961, following a histological study in human autopsy specimens, examining the...

The value of cone beam CT in assessing and managing a dilated odontome of a maxillary canine

A fit and healthy 14-year-old school boy was referred to King's Dental Institute by his general dental practitioner who had started root canal...

Peri-implant diseases: an overview

Several studies have reported that the soft tissue that surrounds an implant has similar features to the soft tissue that surrounds teeth (Figure 1...