Articles

  • Lessons from the north

    Elaine Fugard looks at attaining best practice with local decontamination in dentistry

  • Management of the open apex

    By Robert Smyth and Bob Philpott

  • Time-saving advantages

    Dr Melanie Elger describes the modern method for fissure sealing and minimally invasive restorations using Constic, DMG’s new self-adhesive flowable composite

  • To sedate or not to sedate

    A sneak peak into the world of sedation by one of Ireland’s leading consultant anaesthetists Dr Michael Carey

  • A fantastic experience

    QUB graduate John Haughey was part of the dental team at this summer’s XX Commonwealth Games in Glasgow

  • The Dental Den

    Hygienist Kellie O’Shaughnessy describes her award-wining oral health programme aimed at reducing childhood caries

  • A fluoridation revolution?

    Journalist Gerry Byrne explains why he is taking a stand against the anti-fluoridation lobby

  • Lifelong learning

    Ireland’s Dental magazine columnist Paul O’Dwyer on his education adventure

  • Upper and lower reconstruction

    Dr Jerome P Sullivan presents an upper and lower full arch dental reconstruction with implant supported over-dentures with a special focus on the rehabilitation of the maxilla using a bilateral ridge-splitting technique with a combined Summers lift technique

  • Leading light

    Co-chair of the recent EAO Annual Scientific Meeting in Dublin, Professor David Harris talks about his experiences over the last three decades working in the field of implantology

  • Inspiring oral health

    Hygienist Siobhan Kelleher has taken her oral health message out to the community, with dramatic results

  • Preventing dental trauma

    The best mouthguard is one that a player will wear, writes Dr Edward O’Reilly and Dr Abigail Moore

  • Restoration fundamentals

    Despite the new materials available, tried-and-tested techniques are the fundamentals of full mouth reconstruction. Here, Dr Paul Tipton discusses occlusion and occlusal concepts

  • Conservative, cosmetic orthodontics

    Dr Andy Denny BDS MFGDP(UK) MGDS RCS(Eng) describes how to take the complexity out of simple fixed orthodontic treatment

  • Diagnostic and clinical treatment challenges

    Endodontic treatment of two-rooted mandibular second premolars: Diagnostic and clinical challenges by Junaid Nayyar and Henry F Duncan.