The process of creating the Isle of Wight MCN to improve access has already been described.4 One of the key objectives was to create an integrated service measuring the referral patterns and,...

An anterior or overall TSD may influence dental aesthetics and the occlusion. This may arise from spacing or crowding in the dental arch, centre-line discrepancies of greater than 2 mm2 and difficulty...

Patients with OI may show a plethora of signs and symptoms related to the defective collagen present in different structures of the body, including bone, sclera, skin, ligaments, blood platelets,...

An initial search was carried out using three of the most popular search engines on the World Wide Web; Google (www.google.co.uk), Yahoo (uk.yahoo.com) and MSN (uk.msn.com).7 The search engine was...

Figure 1 presents a patient whose caries is not controlled. It is generally felt that children with cleft lip and plate have higher caries prevalence than their peers. However, this belief is not...

This case is of a 17-year-old female patient. RM has well-controlled asthma and is otherwise fit and well with no family history of primary failure of eruption. RM was initially referred to Glasgow...

Having evaluated the study design and the results it is important to decide how validly the results address the research question posed. Whether you are reviewing the paper because you want an answer...

Surgical removal is a common option chosen for managing unerupted dilacerated incisors,8 together with subsequent orthodontic treatment either to close the space or to re-open it for a prosthetic...

A total of 60 freshly extracted maxillary human premolars, that had been extracted for orthodontic purposes, were collected and stored in distilled water at room temperature, with thymol crystals (1%...

Dental infra-occlusion has been defined as when teeth are below the occlusal plane. Infra-occlusion is usually associated with primary molars.1 It is also frequently associated with ankylosis, which...

There are important psychological issues from the point at which the diagnosis of a cleft is made. For the majority of babies born with a cleft, the diagnosis will be made either antenatally (usually...

We now discuss ways in which sample data can be used to make inferences. How valid and generalizable these inferences are will depend on how the data were accrued and we should always bear in mind the...

The majority of practitioners advise the full-time wear of a twin block appliance to maximize benefit. However, a twin block design can have detrimental effects on the dentition. It remains in direct...

Children can present in the developing dentition with one or more first permanent molars of poor prognosis caused by a variety of aetiological factors, including molar-incisor hypomineralization...

The diagnosis of a facial cleft in an infant may be made at the 20-week anomaly scan, with the findings being imparted immediately to the parents (Figure 1). This clearly can be an emotionally...