Perceived effective and ineffective dental terminology when treating paediatric patients: a cross-sectional survey.

Aims To determine the words that paediatric dental team members perceive to be effective and ineffective for describing dental procedures and instruments to children and to assess if these are influenced by the age and gender of the child.Methods A voluntary, anonymous questionnaire was distributed to paediatric dental staff in NHS Scotland. Questions included participants' demographics, which words they perceive to be effective and ineffective for describing 11 dental procedures and instruments, and whether word choice was affected by the gender and/or age of the patient.

Do paediatric patient-related factors affect the need for a dental general anaesthetic?

Aims The aims were to determine the profile of patients referred for treatment with dental general anaesthetic (DGA) and identify patient-related factors that contributed to a child requiring a DGA.Design setting In total, 42 patients were recruited from new patient assessment clinics at the Edinburgh Dental Institute, Scotland. Prospective questionnaires were given to the patients' caregivers with questions regarding their child's dental anxiety level, ethnicity, level of English spoken and languages spoken at home.

'Childrenese': A Pilot Survey on the Choice of Language in a Paediatric Dental Setting.

To ensure good communication with paediatric patients, members of the dental team typically avoid dental jargon by using appropriate substitution of words. This language of word replacement is sometimes termed 'Childrenese'. This survey was carried out to collect a formulary of perceived effective and ineffective word replacements from paediatric dental team members.

The Effect of Irradiation Distance on Light Transmittance and Vickers Hardness Ratio of Two Bulk-fill Resin-based Composites.

The aims of this study were to assess the light energy transmission and Vickers hardness (VH) ratio of two bulk-fill resin-based composites (RBCs) (Tetric EvoCeram and Filtek) cured at different distances between the light curing unit's (LCU) tip and the surface of the restoration (T-S) using either a Bluephase G2, Bluephase® 'turbo tip' or Bluephase Style LCU. Samples were cured from the top at T-S distances of 2mm, 6mm and 10mm for 20 seconds. A MARC-Resin-Calibrator™ recorded the transmitted irradiance reaching the bottom of the sample, in real time.

A report of 2 cases of green pigmentation in the primary dentition associated with cholestasis caused by sepsis.

Green pigmentation of teeth is uncommon but, when it occurs it is a cause of anxiety to the child and family. It also causes the child to lose self-esteem and increases social issues for the family. The purpose of this paper was to present the management of 2 unrelated patients who presented with green primary teeth following sepsis-induced liver dysfunction and hyperbilirubinemia in infancy.

Tooth fragment reattachment in multiple complicated permanent incisor crown-root fractures - a report of two cases.

Crown-root fractures account for only 5% of all traumatic injuries; however, they can present difficulties for successful management. This paper describes the treatment of two unrelated children who sustained crown-root fractures, extending subgingivally, in permanent upper central incisor teeth with immature apices.

Tooth fragment reattachment after retrieval from the lower lip - a case report.

The most common traumatic dental injury is the uncomplicated crown fracture of the maxillary central incisor. Various reports have been written about reattachment of the fragment, and literature reviews have cited this technique as the best way of treating these injuries if the fragment is available and properly stored. The case presented here is of a child who sustained an uncomplicated crown fracture with the lost portion of the tooth embedded in his lower lip.

A child with 18p- syndrome: a case report.

18p- syndrome is caused by the deletion of all or a portion of genetic material on the short (p) arm of chromosome 18. It was first described in 1963 and since then there have been a variety of clinical characteristics associated with this syndrome. The patient described presented with learning difficulties, epilepsy, a characteristic round face and anti-mongoloid slant to the eyes.