Exposure of unerupted palatal canines: a survey of current practice in the United Kingdom, and experience of a gingival-sparing procedure.

بررسی دقت تکنیک رادیوگرافی پانورامیک، رادیوگرافی پانورامیک به همراه لمس ناحیه و تکنیک tube shift در تعیین موقعیت دندان کانین نهفته فک بالا

Background and Aim: Impaction of maxillary cuspids is the most common after third molars with 1% to 3% prevalence. Localization of these impacted teeth may affect orthodontic or surgical treatment plan. Therefore, different techniques have been introduced to localize impacted canines. The present study was conducted to compare the accuracy of panoramic, tube shift and panoramic plus palpation i...

Health Services Research Spending and Healthcare System Impact; Comment on “Public Spending on Health Service and Policy Research in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States: A Modest Proposal”

The challenges associated with translating health services and policy research (HSPR) evidence into practice are many and long-standing. Indeed, those challenges have themselves spawned new areas of research, including knowledge translation and implementation science. These sub-disciplines have increased our understanding of the critical success factors associated with the uptake of research ev...

Orthodontic - surgical treatment of unerupted permanent teeth using the fully repositioned flap technique . Part 1 . Results , treatment time and post - treatment stability in 90 cases

Aim The aim of this study was to investigate the surgical and orthodontic findings of combined orthodontic-surgical management of unerupted permanent teeth performed by the same team in one clinic and using the same fully repositioned flap as the surgical technique for tooth exposure. Methods This was a retrospective study using patients’ records, orthopantomographs and lateral cephalographs. F...

Re-organising Junior Doctors During the COVID-19 Outbreak: A Single Centre Experience in the United Kingdom

Modified apically repositioned flap in the treatment of unerupted maxillary central incisors.

The successful management of labially unerupted maxillary central incisors requires a coordinated surgical, orthodontic and general practitioner approach. The key to achieving maximal eruption of these teeth is their surgical exposure, central to which is the philosophy that the surgeon must provide a functional width of attached gingiva on the labial surface. This case describes the incorporat...