Late diagnosis of an occult tumour - what lessons can we learn?

abstract：:Aqueous sodium hypochlorite (bleach) solution is widely used in dental practice during root canal treatment. Although it is generally regarded as being very safe, potentially severe complications can occur when it comes into contact with soft tissue. This paper discusses the use of sodium hypochlorite in dental treatm...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Spencer HR,Ike V,Brennan PA

更新日期：2007-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The aim of this case review was to describe the use of local anaesthesia (LA) and intravenous conscious sedation (IVCS) as a safe and effective means of managing patients requiring surgical orthodontic procedures as an alternative to general anaesthesia (GA) in children between the age of 11 and 15 years. MAIN OUT...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Dorman ML,Wilson K,Stone K,Stassen LF

更新日期：2007-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Dental disease in the form of caries and abscesses has been known since antiquity. Before the advent of anaesthesia, operations upon the mouth were painful. The introduction of general anaesthesia in the form of ether and chloroform seemed to provide a solution, but there was an unacceptable level of mortality. James ...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Silver K,Silver J

更新日期：2016-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate job satisfaction among hygienist-therapists. Increasing numbers of hygienist-therapists work in UK primary dental care teams. Earlier studies suggest a clinical remit/clinical activity mismatch, without investigating any link with job satisfaction. METHODS:A UK-wide survey of dental hygienist-...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Csikar J,Godson J

更新日期：2011-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:For 42 years, the author perused and searched dental literature for the true origin of the mouthpiece. This manuscript is the culmination of that search: identifying the originator, reviewing the contributions of several pioneering dentists in mouthpiece creation, and interviewing two of many notable boxing participan...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Reed RV Jr

更新日期：1994-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:In another article in this series the authors' preference for screw retained implant supported restorations was presented together with a literature review and rationale.(1) There remain situations when screw retention is not possible due to implant position, implant trajectory, aesthetics or function. ...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Chee W,Jivraj S

更新日期：2006-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypersensitivity reactions to the commonly used denture base resins are infrequently reported. When they have been reported, most acrylic hypersensitivity reactions have been described as local contact reactions with few reports identifying any significant systemic symptoms. This paper reports a case where the patient...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Barclay SC,Forsyth A,Felix DH,Watson IB

更新日期：1999-10-09 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：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the outcome of non-restoration of carious deciduous teeth by means of a retrospective analysis of clinical case notes of children regularly attending two general dental practices and receiving preventive care. DESIGN:Using a carefully defined protocol the fate of deciduous teeth diagnosed as c...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Levine RS,Pitts NB,Nugent ZJ

更新日期：2002-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Law and ethics is an integral part of medical and dental professional practice. The subject is touched upon in the undergraduate curriculum. Historically, dentists interested in postgraduate study in this subject have accessed courses on medical law and ethics. While there are areas of shared interest (for example, co...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Wassif HS

更新日期：2015-08-14 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：:Len D'Cruz talks to the BDJ about change management, NHS England pilots and direct access for DCPs. ...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： D'Cruz L

更新日期：2013-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Destructive membranous periodontal disease is a rare, destructive and poorly defined entity, which is the part of a systemic disease due to plasminogen deficiency and fibrin deposition. The disease is characterised by gingival enlargement and periodontal tissue destruction that leads to rapid tooth loss despite treatm...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Baykul T,Bozkurt Y

更新日期：2004-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:This prospective, randomised, parallel, controlled study was conducted firstly to compare the onset of local anaesthesia (LA) when using the conventional technique versus the Wand computer-controlled LA and secondly to assess the pain experience in children. METHOD:Thirty children were randomly allocated to the tr...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Kandiah P,Tahmassebi JF

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Following several highly publicised inquiries into the deaths of children from abuse and neglect, there has been much recent interest in the role and responsibility of all health professionals to protect children at risk of maltreatment. The findings of a postal questionnaire, sent in March 2005 to 789 dentists and de...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Harris JC,Elcock C,Sidebotham PD,Welbury RR

更新日期：2009-04-25 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：: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：OBJECTIVE:To assess the outcome of compliance of advice sent to patients and dentists about monitoring tooth wear in general practice. METHOD:Postal questionnaires were sent to 70 patients and their dentists requesting information on the outcome of letters of advice sent to general dental practitioners regarding monit...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Bartlett DW,Palmer I,Shah P

更新日期：2005-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Learners are motivated when using games and they have been successfully introduced in many healthcare subjects such as medicine and nursing. The development of games in dentistry has not kept pace with their uptake both as a popular pastime and their implementation in other subjects. Games in the learning space have m...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Pereira AC,Walmsley AD

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Safeguarding children from maltreatment and neglect is part of the responsibility of all health professionals, and dental practitioners may be in a unique position to recognise and respond to concerns of this kind. This article outlines some of the ways that abuse can present to the dental team and describes the actio...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Sidebotham PD,Harris JC

更新日期：2007-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:There is evidence, although limited, for beneficial effects of bisphophonates (BPs) across multiple dental specialties. Within implant dentistry BP coatings have been shown to significantly increase pull out forces and bone density in animal models, and significantly increase implant stability whilst reducing marginal...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Shah NP,Nayee S,Pazianas M,Sproat C

更新日期：2017-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:A theoretical model was proposed and tested to evaluate some of the factors involved in patients' decisions to undergo extensive restorative dental treatment. This model incorporates aspects of the environment within which the decision occurred (the patient/provider relationship, social influence and the role of cues ...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Oates AJ,Fitzgerald M,Alexander G

更新日期：1995-07-08 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 great number of dentists recognise the conflict between running a viable business and providing dental care to the same level they had been taught as students. This Personal View recounts the experiences of one general dental practitioner, but the feelings expressed have a universality that many will recognise. ...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Cheetham D

更新日期：1994-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the outbreak of war in the former Yugoslavia, the British Government has accepted a number of people with special humanitarian needs from Bosnia. In October 1992, seven families, comprising of ten adults aged between 24 and 42 years old and 13 children aged between 18 months and 15 years old, arrived in Surrey h...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Harris ST,Allan RE

更新日期：1993-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute idiopathic thrombocytopaenic purpura is the most common of the thrombocytopaenias of childhood. Clinically it is associated with petechiae, mucocutaneous bleeding and occasionally haemorrhage into tissues. The oral mucosa is frequently involved. This paper describes a case presenting in general dental practice. ...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Hunter ML,Hunter B,Lesser S

更新日期：1997-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of the presence of fluoride in toothpaste on tooth wear was investigated in extracted human premolar teeth collected from two geographic areas with different fluoride concentrations in the public water supply. Nine teeth from each area were divided bucco-lingually into matched pairs and subjected to a wear ...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Bartlett DW,Smith BG,Wilson RF

更新日期：1994-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The United Kingdom and its national healthcare system represent a unique comparison for many other developed countries (such as Australia and France), as the practice of prophylactic removal of third molars in the United Kingdom has been discouraged for nearly two decades, with clear guidelines issued by the...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Anjrini AA,Kruger E,Tennant M

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To evaluate two total purchasing (TP) sites and ascertain whether general dental practitioners (GDPs) could be successfully included in the total purchasing model of health care commissioning. Another objective was to examine the role GDPs may play in future primary care commissioning groups and trusts. DES...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Jessop NM,Kay EJ,Mellor AC,Whittle JG,Jenner A

更新日期：2000-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:There are currently 9(1/2) million people in England and Wales over retirement age and nearly 4 million of these are over 75 years. Age itself is not a disease and 70% of the population over 65 are functionally independent. However, ageing is associated with an increase in the prevalence of chronic disease and disabil...

journal_title：British dental journal

authors： Simons D

更新日期：2003-02-08 00:00:00