Paediatric Dentistry
Top tips for child protection for the GDP
Christine M HarrisAbuse or neglect may present to the dental team in a number of different ways:1.
Pacifiers: a review of risks vs benefits
Arian GederiPacifier-sucking peaks at around one year of age and declines thereafter.42,43 The majority of children stop the habit by the time permanent dentition erupts.34 For those few who continue the habit,...
Interdisciplinary management in the paediatric patient: restoration of a complicated crown-root fracture
Darren HandA healthy 12-year-old boy attended the paediatric casualty clinic of a UK dental hospital as an emergency patient after an accident earlier that day at school. The boy had tripped and fallen in the...
The use of zirconium, single-retainer, resin-bonded bridges in adolescents
Sian WilliamsThe metal ceramic resin-bonded bridge has been used by practitioners for many years to replace single missing teeth, especially those in the anterior region. The success rate of this prosthesis is...
Loss of deciduous teeth – is timing important to the gdp?
Rebekka NunnEruption can be defined as ‘the biological process that follows the formation of the dental crown and is essentially penetration of the covering oral mucosa by any part of a single tooth’.2 The time...