If Osler's advice is followed, then the most important part of any examination is the history, to identify the symptoms associated with the condition. For pain of odontogenic origin, there are two...

Radicular cysts are inflammatory in nature and the most common cystic lesions of the jaws, accounting for approximately 60% of all odontogenic cysts.3 Although they can develop in all tooth-bearing...

Remodelling of bone is essential for reshaping of the growing skeleton and healing of bone during injury, for example tooth extraction. Bone remodelling is controlled by systemic and local factors:.

The management of acute trigeminal pain can be divided into three areas: intra-operative, post-operative and acute symptomatic pain (usually acute infection)..

There have been several attempts to classify chronic orofacial pain (OFP) conditions by pain associations. The most used main categories have either been topographical (odontogenic versus...

A 32-year-old female presented with a six-month history of increasing dento-facial asymmetry. This was associated with intermittent pain and crepitus of her left temporomandibular joint and limited...

The trigeminal nerve supplies general sensory supply to the face, scalp and mouth (Figure 1). A vast proportion of the sensory cortex represents the trigeminal input (over 50%).1.

Commonly used needles in dental practice in the UK include:4.

Pain is defined as ‘an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage or described in terms of such damage’.2 This is an over-simplification of the...

Prescribed medications are used to reduce the risk of a thrombo-embolic event. A thrombus is most likely to occur within a damaged vessel or heart wall. The pathologist Rudolph Virchow adopted a triad...

A sound knowledge of the physiology of haemostasis is important in understanding how haemorrhage may occur. A full description of the process is outside the remit of this paper; however, several key...

A common theme among these cases is airway compromise due to aggressive infection spreading through the soft tissue spaces in the oropharynx and neck. Figures 1 and 2 demonstrate several of the...

A 12-year-old Caucasian girl was referred to the oral and maxillofacial unit at Kent and Canterbury Hospital in April 2010 as her dentist was concerned about the delayed eruption of her permanent...

Patients were considered to have BRONJ if all of the following three characteristics are present:2.

The demographics of patients recruited to the three audits are shown in Table 1 and the levels of pain that they experienced in Table 2..