The implications of the Human Tissue Act 2004 for dentistry.

abstract：:We report a case of Wegener's granulomatosis (WG), localised to the upper aerodigestive tract, which presented as an unusual form of hyperplastic gingivitis in a 36-year-old female. The clinical, serological and histopathological findings are described. The resemblance of the affected gums to over-ripe strawberries is...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Napier SS,Allen JA,Irwin CR,McCluskey DR

更新日期：1993-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine the methods currently being used to decontaminate photographic retractors in specialist orthodontic practice and to investigate the effectiveness of the cleaning methods. DESIGN:The study was carried out in two parts: I - a postal self-report questionnaire, and II - a cross-sectional clinical a...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Benson PE,Ebhohimen A,Douglas I

更新日期：2010-04-10 00:00:00

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：:The paper highlights the pros and cons of a national programme for screening for oral cancer. It provides an overview of screening methods and the metrics used to evaluate a screening programme. It then reviews the evidence for mouth cancer screening against the criteria of the United Kingdom National Screening Commit...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Brocklehurst PR,Speight PM

更新日期：2018-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:A case is described of a patient who appeared to belong to the category labelled 'resistant' to local analgesia, in whom use of a 5% lignocaine solution with 1 in 100,000 adrenaline allowed painless routine dental treatment to be carried out. A discussion of the case, and the various other opinions which were consider...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Beckett HA,Gilmour AG

更新日期：1990-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:These extracts from the literary archive focus on the role of teeth as a facial feature. Their contribution to favourable and unfavourable facial appearance by their presence or absence, their use as a guide to character and as a means of identification are illustrated. ...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Richardson ME

更新日期：2001-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:I believe the time is coming when we should consider dropping the term 'malocclusion'. In its present meaning it is too mechanical and misrepresents the fundamental fact that an occlusion can only be judged against the tissue reactions to it or the patient's assessment of it. ...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Davies SJ

更新日期：2007-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:When confronting a defiant or pre-co-operative young patient with extensive dental decay the dentist must decide between treatment under conscious sedation with passive restraint or general anaesthesia. Although some practitioners prefer to attempt and exhaust sedative techniques in most cases and use general anaesthe...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Kupietzky A

更新日期：2004-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To derive an estimate of encounters with halitosis and to assess the impact of halitosis on their psychosocial interactions with halitosis patients. METHODS:Participants were 1,006 members of an online panel, being representative of the population of the Netherlands with regard to gender, age, family situati...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： de Jongh A,van Wijk AJ,Horstman M,de Baat C

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An understanding of the mechanisms by which deep overbite trauma develops will allow interception at an early age of those cases most at risk. Measures may then be taken to prevent progression to the stage where treatment becomes difficult. ...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Wragg PF,Jenkins WM,Watson IB,Stirrups DR

更新日期：1990-05-05 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：:Decontamination of dental instruments has recently been the subject of considerable debate. However, little information is available on the potential bacterial colonisation of dental appliances returning from dental laboratories and their need for decontamination. This study investigated the extent and nature of micro...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Williams DW,Chamary N,Lewis MA,Milward PJ,McAndrew R

更新日期：2011-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Reduced oral aperture and mandibular mobility/trismus are relatively common conditions that can be encountered in patients attending general dental practice, community dental practice and district general or dental teaching hospitals. All dental specialties may see patients with these conditions, and regardless of whi...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Garnett MJ,Nohl FS,Barclay SC

更新日期：2008-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The Apothecaries Act of 1815, (revised by the Act of 1825) has been credited with being the most important forward step in the education of the general medical profession in the nineteenth century, although a closely argued revisionist view of its significance by S W F Holloway makes clear his view that it was also a ...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Bishop MG,Gelbier S

更新日期：2002-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the level of knowledge and understanding of informed consent amongst consultant orthodontists. DESIGN:A questionnaire which covered a range of legal issues on informed consent as it pertains to clinical practice in three of the four nations of the United Kingdom. SETTING:Hospital orthodontic de...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Chate RA

更新日期：2008-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Methods of measuring the general magnitude or central tendency of sets of data are described, including the mean, median and mode. Similarly, methods of determining the degree of dispersion of the observations about the mean, including range, variance, and standard deviation are presented, together with worked practic...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Bulman JS,Osborn JF

更新日期：1989-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The current debate on our pay system sparked off by the elegant dissertation by David Watson-James (BDJ, October 24 1992) has been welcomed by those of us in the profession who try to see past the size of our next monthly schedule. Having spent the last eight years as a member of the Representative Board of the BDA an...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Renshaw J

更新日期：1993-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe the variety of arrangements for providing out-of-hours dental care in the UK. DESIGN:A telephone interview survey of health authorities and health boards. SETTING:United Kingdom. SUBJECTS:104 health authority contacts, usually consultants in dental public health, dental advisers or others in a ...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Anderson R,Thomas DW

更新日期：2000-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Enamel hypomineralisation is a qualitative defect, with reduced mineralisation resulting in discoloured enamel in a tooth of normal shape and size. Because the enamel is weaker, teeth can undergo post eruptive breakdown, resulting in missing enamel. Enamel hypoplasia is a quantitative defect of the enamel presenting a...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Patel A,Aghababaie S,Parekh S

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Zambia's population of 8 million, 69% are under 24 years of age. The country has a crippling foreign debt, and consequently public services are poorly funded. From March this year my wife and I have been working in Zambia. I have been asked to establish and develop a dental service based at Mukinge Hospital in the ...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Cudmore T

更新日期：1992-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The optimum management of dual anti-platelet therapy (DAPT) in patients undergoing dentoalveolar surgery is controversial. The lack of guidelines has meant clinicians have been left to manage these cases from specialist advice or past experience. In view of this the British Association of Oral Surgeons (BAOS)...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Patel N,Patel V,Sarkar D,Nokes T,Blacklock P

更新日期：2014-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To identify reasons behind a lower than expected participant recruitment rate within the FiCTION trial, a multi-centre paediatric primary dental care randomised controlled trial (RCT). SUBJECTS (MATERIALS) AND METHODS:An online survey, based on a previously published tool, consisting of both quantitative and...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Keightley A,Clarkson J,Maguire A,Speed C,Innes N

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This article presents a review of published literature examining fibre-based endodontic post systems. DATA SOURCES:A MEDLINE search was carried out for any articles in dental journals pertaining to fibre-based post systems. Wherever possible articles cited were obtained from the journals and where this was ...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Bateman G,Ricketts DN,Saunders WP

更新日期：2003-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The British Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons and the Royal Colleges have rightly responded over the years to pressures within, and outside dentistry for higher levels of training in oral and maxillofacial surgery. There has been adoption of a series of qualification as, at first desirable, then mandatory...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Pedlar J

更新日期：1991-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone is a specialised connective tissue that, together with cartilage, makes up the skeleton. These tissues serve three functions: (a) mechanical support and site of muscle attachment for locomotion; (b) protection for vital organs and bone marrow and (c) a metabolic reserve of ions for the entire organism, especially...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Meghji S

更新日期：1992-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial prescribing by dentists in Wales, UK: findings of the first cycle of a clinical audit. ...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Doherty R

更新日期：2016-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Correctly managing interdental papillae is a key step in producing satisfactory, interproximal, direct composite restorations. This article discusses techniques to facilitate the restoration of sub-gingival cavities and suggests a decision-making workflow that can be applied in this challenging situation. ...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Bailey O,O'Connor C

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate shortened courses of antibiotics in the management of dentoalveolar abscesses. DESIGN:Prospective clinical study over a 3-year period. SETTING:Examinations department of the Liverpool University Dental Hospital. SUBJECTS:759 patients, with acute dentoalveolar abscesses associated with swelling,...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Martin MV,Longman LP,Hill JB,Hardy P

更新日期：1997-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:While local anaesthetic agents are usually safe and are used ubiquitously, inadvertent overdoses may have potentially fatal consequences. Errors in the dosing of local anaesthetics frequently occur due to inherent difficulties in remembering the toxic dosage limits, difficulties in performing the appropriate calculati...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Walker JD,Summers A,Williams DJ

更新日期：2015-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:When Britain went to war in 1914, the British Expeditionary Force was deployed without a single dentist. Initially considered combatants, the only dental professionals who could serve at the Front were medically qualified dental surgeons in the Royal Army Medical Corps. In treating the traumatic facial and jaw injurie...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Hussey KD

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00