In the early 1970s, two chemists at the ICI Petrochemical and Polymer Laboratory in Runcorn, Edward (Ed) Dart and Joseph (Joe) Nemcek, developed a visible light-activated (alpha)-diketone/amine...

Zinc phosphate cement was introduced circa 125 years ago. Despite its shortcomings, which include solubility in the dilute organic acids found in plaque, and poor tensile strength, it remains in use...

Many different manufacturers' products are available, examples being; Fiberkor (Jeneric/Pentron), Vectris (Ivoclar), EG Fibres (Kuraray/Japan) and everStick® (GC Corporation Tokyo Japan). The...

A 63-year-old female patient presented complaining of chipping of her maxillary anterior teeth, aesthetic concerns regarding her worn mandibular incisors and of sensitivity to thermal stimuli. She...

A 61-year-old male was referred to the Dental Institute, Colombo for the management of pain and an abscess associated with two upper central incisors. His past and current medical records revealed...

The conformative approach to the restorative rehabilitation of a dentition would involve the provision of restorations to any of the affected teeth at the ‘pre-existing occlusal scheme, without...

As per the FGDP (UK) Clinical Examination and Record-Keeping; Good Practice Guidelines 2016,6 when a patient attends a practitioner for the first time for a routine dental examination, an appraisal of...

The value of practice-based research has been previously discussed,1 with the arena of general dental practice having been considered the ideal environment in which to carry out evaluations of the...

Occlusal splints are interocclusal appliances commonly used in dental practice to manage bruxism and temporomandibular disorders (TMD). There are many articles and studies on the effectiveness of...

Patients unable to tolerate a removable prosthesis..

The compound directly resulting in the bleaching effect, hydrogen peroxide, is an oxidizing agent. Hydrogen peroxide breaks down in the presence of water to yield water and a free radical species....

There are numerous treatment approaches which have been suggested in the literature and are categorized into the following methods: behavioural, pharmacological and non-pharmacological. Importantly,...

Generalized/localized tooth wear in dentate patients with associated:.

Generally speaking, discoloration of teeth may be either intrinsic or extrinsic, and may present in isolation or affect the dentition generally. Tooth discoloration may also be classified as...

In order to understand the underlying aetiology of the gagging response, we must first look at how it is initiated. This is an inborn defence mechanism which is controlled by the parasympathetic...