Chairside learning on undergraduate clinics: general dental and human disease themes.

Introduction Chairside teaching is an important part of dental undergraduate clinical education. Bedside teaching is well-reported in relation to undergraduate medicine but few publications relate to undergraduate dentistry.Aims and objectives To investigate the experience and benefits from chairside teaching/learning in the clinical years of a five-year dental programme in a UK university.

An introduction to dental implants.

The use of implants to replace missing teeth is now commonplace and practised by clinicians worldwide in both general and specialist practice. There is an abundance of evidence on the general success of implant treatment. As well as reviewing the history of dental implants, this narrative review will discuss the merits and successful placement of tissue-level verses bone-level implants.

Medical history complexity of patients attending dental student restorative treatment clinics compared with dental emergency clinics.

Introduction: Dental students should graduate from undergraduate programmes with the knowledge and skills to safely manage patients. This requires exposure to patients with a range of medical needs, which may impact the planning and delivery of care.

Aims And Objectives: We wished to establish the medical history complexity of patients presenting to student restorative clinics and compare them to patients attending a dental emergency clinic.

Dental trainee motivations for the acquisition and use of postgraduate qualifications in medical education.

Introduction Medical and dental education is increasingly professionalised. The expectation is that educators have appropriate training and qualifications. Entry to dental speciality training is highly competitive and applications are scored using defined criteria, including experience in education.

An investigation into oral surgery referrals in Wales.

Introduction With waiting list time increasing in all specialties in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is vital to make sure that patients are receiving treatment in an appropriate setting. Most oral surgery undertaken in secondary care could be successfully carried out in a primary care setting by specialist oral surgeons or general dental practitioners (GDPs) with a special interest in oral surgery.Aim To investigate reasons for oral surgery referrals to secondary care.

Paediatric dentistry trainee views on training relating to the medically compromised child and oral medicine elements of specialty training curricula.

Introduction: Paediatric dentists care for children who are medically compromised and with an orofacial disease; therefore, trainees need appropriate training in these areas. The prevalence of congenital and chronic diseases in children is increasing, and future specialists need an understanding of human health and disease and oral medicine. This study aimed to determine if current teaching and assessments were fulfilling these requirements.

Postoperative Complications Following LeFort 1 Maxillary Advancement Surgery in Cleft Palate Patients: A 5-Year Retrospective Study.

Objective: To investigate the postoperative complication rates of LeFort 1 maxillary advancement surgery in cleft patients when performed by a single surgeon over a 5-year period.

Design: A retrospective case note review of 79 cleft palate patients.

Setting: All surgery was performed by a single oral and maxillofacial surgeon in a tertiary care center.

A practitioner's guide to gutta-percha removal during endodontic retreatment.

Endodontic retreatment can be a challenging task that can result in many complications if not approached cautiously. Many of these difficulties revolve around regaining access to the pulp chamber through extensive coronal restorations and removing residual root filling material, the commonest being gutta-percha (GP), from within obturated canals. This can often be an untidy, time consuming process that places teeth at a greater risk of iatrogenic injury and inhibits the operator achieving the necessary chemical disinfection required to eliminate the persistent apical disease.

Should implants be considered for patients with periodontal disease?

Dental implants are seen as a good option for replacing missing teeth. The success and survival rates for implants are very high. Concerns are developing about the problem of peri-implantitis.

Do you see what I see? Identification of child protection concerns by hospital staff and general dental practitioners.

Aim An exploration of the threshold that dentists, doctors and nurses recognise for dental and child protection (CP) actions in sample clinical cases, and any differences between these professional groups.Method We present a cross-sectional survey of dentists, doctors and nurses (50 each), who regularly examine children, utilised five fictitious vignettes, combining an oral examination image and clinical history reflecting dental and CP issues. Demographics were collected, and each participant gave their likely action for the cases presented.

Removal techniques for failed implants.

The use of dental implants is an accepted and predictable way of replacing missing or lost teeth. However, implants can and will fail and there are a variety of reasons why this occurs, which the practitioner should understand. In some instances failed implants may require removal and, therefore, practitioners should be aware of techniques that can be used to remove failed implants to potentially enable future rehabilitation of an edentulous region.

Summary of: dental practitioners and a digital future: an initial exploration of barriers and incentives to adopting digital technologies.

Background: Digital technologies are proliferating into dental practices. While their technical attributes have often been studied, it remains unclear why some dentists adopt and use these technologies more than others. AIM To explore the incentives for and barriers against accepting and using digital dental technologies.

Dental health management for children with special healthcare needs.

Good dental health is essential for good communication, nutrition and self-esteem. There is evidence of a correlation between special needs, unequal access to dental care, poor dental health and insufficient improvement in dental services, particularly for children with special healthcare needs. Factors contributing to this situation include the characteristics of the individual's disability, parental education and socioeconomic status, lack of appropriately trained dentists and a lack of research in the UK to guide progress.

Career choice, pathways and continuing professional development of dental nurses at one institution.

Objective: To explore the career pathways and continuing professional development of dental nurses employed at one institution relative to the scope of practice.

Method: A questionnaire exploring career pathways and continuing professional development of dental nurses was compiled and delivered to clinical departments. Responses were entered onto SPSS v17 for analysis.

Kartagener's syndrome: unusual dental morphology.

The present paper describes the dental presentation of a female patient with Kartagener's syndrome. There are no reports in the literature identifying dental anomalies in patients with this condition. The subject presented with the congenital absence of an upper lateral incisor, enamel hypoplasia and aberrant tooth morphology.

The location and tracking of swallowed dental appliances: the role of radiology.

Two cases of swallowing mishaps, one involving a spoon-denture and the other an orthodontic partial arch wire, are reported. The former was recovered following interventional radiology, the latter by proctoscopy. The role of radiographic investigation and possible measures to prevent such potential life-threatening emergencies are discussed.

Odontogenic keratocyst involving the maxillary sinus: report of two cases.

The occurrence of odontogenic keratocysts in the maxilla is relatively rare, and invasion of the maxillary sinus unusual. Such cysts are normally small and unilocular. Two large keratocysts with different clinical features and radiological appearances, which had invaded the sinus, are discussed in the case reports presented here.

The dental status and attitudes of patients at risk from infective endocarditis.

Infective endocarditis represents one of the few potentially fatal infections that may be caused in the patient by a dentist. Efforts to reduce the incidence of this disease usually take the form of appropriate antibiotic cover prior to dental treatment, together with the establishment and maintenance of good oral health. This paper is a report of a survey on the dental health and awareness of 81 'at-risk' patients attending a cardiology outpatient clinic.

Cleft palate rehabilitation using a resin-bonded split-post prosthesis.

For the patient described in this report a nonprecious metal alloy that contains neither beryllium nor nickel was used. The retainers were sandblasted with 50 microns alumina and cemented by using a resin that bonds chemically to metal. With good oral hygiene and regular review the resin-bonded split-post prosthesis should provide a long period of service.