A restorative issue

The British Society for Restorative Dentistry (BSRD) celebrates the 50th anniversary of its founding in May of this year, so it was a special honour when its members agreed to provide the articles for this commemorative issue of Dental Update. In that regard, great credit is due to Dr Ken Hemmings (a Dental Update Editorial Board member) who co-ordinated the authors and subjects.

General dentists spend a majority of their time either doing restorative dentistry for their patients or assessing whether they need to do it: in other words, when prevention fails, restorative dentistry may be indicated. This issue is therefore of much relevance to the readers of Dental Update. Readers will find articles on a wide variety of restorative dentistry topics, and a particularly authoritative piece on tooth wear (it could be retitled ‘all you need to know about tooth wear’), a patient problem which continues to rise and rise, often affecting a younger age group of patients, particularly in the UK:¹ these patients are therefore on a cycle of restoration and repair which they cannot get off. Two further articles will appear in the next two issues.