Patients with cardiac disease: considerations for the dental practitioner.

abstract：:The talking parrot can be given information by voice and then reproduce that information verbatim, without necessarily understanding it. I submit that the teaching, assessment and examination of dental students requires little more of them than the skills of the parrot. ...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Pairman JS

更新日期：1995-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper argues that 'science' does not tell us 'the truth' but is simply one explanatory framework (of potentially many explanations) for understanding the world. Scientific fact is not a given, located somewhere 'out there' waiting to be discovered. Rather as a set of ideas, which offer to explain the world, scien...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Thorogood N

更新日期：1997-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：Objective:To evaluate the quality of the care pathway for adult patients being referred to the East Lancashire Blackburn with Darwen Oral Surgery Service using the referral management system between 2013 and 2014. Results:In the 2013–14 financial year, of the 5,285 referrals that were made to the Oral Surgery Service,...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Chiu G,Catleugh M

更新日期：2019-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Locator retained implant overdentures are associated with a high incidence of prosthodontic complications. This study investigated whether general dental practitioners (GDPs) were willing to maintain these prostheses in primary dental care. METHOD:A questionnaire was distributed to all GDPs referring pati...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Patzelt SB

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background Mobile phones are potentially an invaluable tool in addressing the global challenge associated with dental caries as they may elicit behaviour change by incorporating numerous behaviour change techniques (BCTs) to address an individual's capability, opportunity and motivation.Methods The methodology for thi...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Sharif MO,Newton T,Cunningham SJ

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective and setting This paper describes the evaluation of a pilot situational judgement test (SJT) for selection into UK Dental Core Training (DCT). The SJT's psychometric properties, group differences based on gender and ethnicity, and candidate reactions were assessed.Methods The SJT targets four non-academic att...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Rowett E,Patterson F,Cousans F,Elley K

更新日期：2017-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Aims We have conducted a survey of administrative data, aiming to investigate the reported provision of dental extraction under general anaesthesia in the NHS for adults in secondary care in the following aspects: 1) anaesthetic data accessibility by NHS organisations; 2) the number and proportion of dental extraction...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Hong B,Morris J,Dietrich T

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of filtration on water fluoride level was investigated in a study using commercially available filters. Testing was carried out in London (low fluoride), Braintree (optimum fluoride, naturally occurring) and Birmingham (optimum fluoride, artificially adjusted). It was found that none of the filters removed ...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Ong YS,Williams B,Holt R

更新日期：1996-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteoradionecrosis (ORN) remains a difficult clinical problem. In large refractory cases surgery appears to be the only option but it does not guarantee a cure and is expensive. Cost analysis of 31 patients who had resection with or without reconstruction of their mandible was £892,357. The largest cost was in-patient...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Patel V,Ormondroyd L,Lyons A,McGurk M

更新日期：2017-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:A 19-year-old female was referred by her dental practitioner for the restoration of missing maxillary lateral incisors and canines. Ridge augmentation was required. This was undertaken using mandibular tori as the sites for harvesting bone. The grafting was successful and the spaces were subsequently restored using re...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Barker D,Walls AW,Meechan JG

更新日期：2001-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to determine if increasing cost to the patient of an NHS dental examination was associated with a change in the uptake of dental examinations by Scottish adults aged 18 years and over. The null hypothesis was that there was no significant difference (a = 0.05) in the number of NHS de...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Lacey S

更新日期：2006-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Each year since 1970, the charity CRISIS has provided a place of warmth and shelter for the homeless of London (guests) over the Christmas period. In 1990 they converted a large factory warehouse off the Old Kent Road and set it up to cook meals, provide beds, games, televisions, hairdressing, chiropody, medical and d...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Daly B

更新日期：1991-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To ascertain the training received in management of medical emergencies recalled by general dental practitioners (GDPs), as undergraduates and since graduation, to examine how well prepared they felt to manage such events and how their readiness might be improved. DESIGN:Postal questionnaire survey of a ran...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Atherton GJ,McCaul JA,Williams SA

更新日期：1999-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to the relatively slow pace and lack of symptoms with which tooth wear develops, patients will often not be aware of the presence of a wearing dentition and often present for treatment at an advanced stage. Thus, it is often challenging for the general dental practitioner to convey the diagnoses, whilst concomitan...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Banerji S,Mehta S

更新日期：2016-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the introduction of nightguard vital bleaching (tray bleaching) in 1989, dentistry has witnessed an astronomical rise in the interest in tooth whitening.(1) As a result, the most frequently asked question is, 'what bleaching technique works best?' Virtually all of today's whitening approaches work, because bleac...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Heymann HO

更新日期：2005-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:This is the first in a series of four papers related to the management of root canal treated teeth. When teeth compromised by extensive restorations become non-vital, suggestions have been given as to how root canal treatment can be carried out with the greatest chance of success. Once root canal treated, either by a ...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Tait CM,Ricketts DN,Higgins AJ

更新日期：2005-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:A fifth mandibular incisor is a eumorphic supernumerary tooth and has rarely been described in the medical literature. We report here a large Lebanese consanguineous family where four individuals displayed five incisors in the anterior mandible. Such familial observation has not been previously described. The possibil...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Cassia A,El-Toum S,Feki A,Megarbane A

更新日期：2004-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To describe and investigate a simple, effective new method for controlled removal of unsightly, malformed surface enamel. SUBJECTS AND METHODS:22 mottled incisor teeth were chosen from a group of 12 patients, aged 9-15 years. One half of the labial surface of the tooth was covered with a layer of unfilled bis-GMA ...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Pourghadiri M,Longhurst P,Watson TF

更新日期：1998-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Dentists are now advised to use film holders as an aid to intra-oral radiography. The aim of this investigation was to compare a range of commercially available film holders for periapical radiography with the traditional bisecting angle technique using the patient's finger as support for the film, in terms of the eas...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Rushton VE,Horner K

更新日期：1994-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Although this study heralded that over half the implants gained bone, this was between 1 and 5 years after placement, the amounts were trivial, and this has to be balanced with loss of bone during the first year. ...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors：

更新日期：2016-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:A case is described in which a patient who was originally treated by radical mandibular surgery including rib grafting, having been told that she had a dentigerous cyst, presented 49 years later with a follicular ameloblastoma. The case is discussed in an attempt to determine whether the initial diagnosis could have b...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Collings SJ,Harrison A

更新日期：1993-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:In the aftermath of the devastating tsunami that hit South East Asia last December, a huge operation to try to identify thousands of victims got underway, with the help of many overseas medical and dental professionals. British dentist Gareth Pearson went to Thailand to try and help in this task and here recounts his ...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Bajaj A

更新日期：2005-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:During the autumn of 1991 a meeting was convened in Brussels by Colgate entitled 'European view of fluoride supplementation'. Throughout Europe, product dosage and age related dose recommendations for fluoride supplements vary widely. With the advent of 1992, different instructions on the same packet would cause consi...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Clarkson J

更新日期：1992-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Introduction People from vulnerable groups have higher levels of untreated dental disease compared to the general population, yet often experience barriers to accessing care. Difficulties accessing oral healthcare services have been suggested as one of the pathways that contribute to oral health inequalities.Aim To co...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： El-Yousfi S,Jones K,White S,Marshman Z

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to examine histologically teeth containing 27 tooth-coloured restorations with both stained and unstained margins for comparison of their caries status. Histological examination of 56 cavity margins showed that early caries lesions were present adjacent to many stained and unstained margi...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Kidd EA

更新日期：1991-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:A prospective cohort study was undertaken to describe the incidence of dental caries, as recorded by GDPs, in the primary molar teeth of children aged approximately 3-6 years attending general dental practices in the North West of England. METHOD:Detailed dental records of children aged 3-6 years attendin...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Milsom KM,Blinkhorn AS,Tickle M

更新日期：2008-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A clinical trial of direct composite inlays versus conventionally (incrementally) placed restorations made from the same material was started in January 1989. Restorations were randomly allocated to matched pairs of cavities. This study reports the 3-year performance of 71 of the 100 pairs of restorations placed over ...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Wassell RW,Walls AW,McCabe JF

更新日期：1995-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:April 1993 saw the introduction of the 'Community Care' element of the 1990 NHS and Community Care Act. The term 'Community Care' describes the relocation of long-stay hospital residents to community accommodation. Much public attention has recently been focused on the welfare of psychiatric patients in the community,...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Armstrong M

更新日期：1994-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To evaluate patient compliance with toothbrushing instructions using a data logger and a brushing diary. METHODS:Dental patients were provided with powered toothbrushes modified to carry electronic data loggers. Demonstration of the most effective way to use the toothbrush was provided with instructions to ...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： McCracken G,Janssen J,Heasman L,Stacey F,Steen N,deJager M,Heasman P

更新日期：2005-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:As it approaches its 60th anniversary, the UCL Eastman Dental Institute continues to go from strength to strength. This article takes a brief look at the history and achievements of the Institute, from its establishment in 1948 to its present position as one of the premier international centres for dental research and...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors：

更新日期：2007-11-10 00:00:00