Implants
Patient-centred care: how close to this are we?
Understanding motivating factors and expectations is fundamental to providing high quality care. Ensuring that patients' expectations are met is a key...
The ultimate aesthetic challenge in dentistry: a single crown on a maxillary central incisor
A 22-year-old female patient presented in the dental school clinic with a discoloured left upper central incisor (Figure 1). The young woman was self...
Child cancers: managing the complications of childhood chemotherapy in the adult dentition
Chemotherapy is the first line treatment employed in treating many childhood cancers such as leukaemia and lymphoma and has resulted in improved...
Gingival retraction techniques: a review
Before any gingival retraction is contemplated, and ideally before any restoration with subgingival margins is planned, it is important to assess the...
Cone beam computed tomography: an update for general dental practitioners
Under IR(ME)R 2000, justification for any medical ionising radiation exposure is required and should be documented.4 In compliance with IR(ME)R...
The options for a tooth that requires root canal treatment
Root canal treatment and maintenance of the natural tooth has high success rates17,18,19 and high survival rates.14, 20,21,22,23,24,25,26 The natural...
The dentist's role in smoking cessation management — a literature review and recommendations: part 1
For over 200 years, there has been an ever-increasing body of evidence regarding the risks of tobacco use.1 Links between clay pipe smoking and...
An alternative approach to replacement of an avulsed central incisor
Patient HG first attended in October 2012. Her presenting complaints were that she was missing her UR1, use of an upper partial denture, and that she...
Soft tissue profile around dental implants placed in the aesthetic zone — a biological update
It is well documented in the literature that soft tissues follow hard tissues. Holmes noticed the collapse of interdental papillae following the loss...
A contemporary approach to the provision of tooth-supported fixed prostheses part 2: fixed bridges where the abutment teeth require minimal or no preparation
Where a tooth-supported fixed prosthesis is indicated and the abutments are generally sound, resin-retained bridges are preferred, whilst recognizing...
Patient and Dentist Burnout - A Two-Way Relationship
Case A illustrates two of these circumstances. The patient was a single, female lawyer, aged 39, who travelled over 200 miles for each visit. She had...
Hypophosphatasia: Diagnostic Clues for the Dental Practitioner
The cases described in this report exhibited similar characteristics, namely, premature exfoliation of unresorbed primary teeth, elevated levels of...
Dental implants: what have we learnt from long-term follow-up?
Criteria for implant success were described in 1986 by Albrektsson et al,17 with failure due to bone loss being described as crestal bone height loss...
Tobacco habit-associated oral disease and the negative effects on surgical outcomes
It is not the authors' intention to give a detailed discussion of those tobacco-related systemic diseases that may have an indirect impact on the...
Near misses
These examples illustrate how Near Misses provide opportunities to improve our patient care and minimize harm..