FJ Trevor Burke

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Amalgam, trams and Northern Ireland - Dental Update

Nov 1, 2024 | dental-update.co.uk | FJ Trevor Burke

Article Oh no, readers say, more of Burke's incomprehensible rubbish, just when they thought that they had been given an Editorial Director who could write sense! In that regard, even the most erudite readers of the UK's best-selling subscription journal, Dental Update, may not appreciate the thread running between the items in the title! On the other hand, older readers may (or probably may not!) recall, in 2004, the year in which the Hong Kong tram system, which runs from one end of the...
End of the Road for Dental Amalgam?

Jan 21, 2024 | dental-update.co.uk | Ewen McColl |FJ Trevor Burke

Article Readers will be aware of the Minamata Agreement, signed in 2013, in which 147 countries around the world agreed to minimize mercury use in a wide variety of fields, such as, lighting, fertilizers, and, of course, dental amalgam. This resulted in a ban, from 1 July 2018, on the use of amalgam in pregnant women and children under the age of 15 years.
Dental Update - Eating my hat!

Jan 21, 2024 | dental-update.co.uk | FJ Trevor Burke

Article No-one would want to literally eat their hat so this expression is only used when someone is very sure about something. One of the earliest appearances of this phrase was in Charles Dickens' ‘The Pickwick Papers’ in 1837: ‘If I knew as little of life as that, I'd eat my hat and swallow the buckle whole’.
Dental Update - BOOK REVIEW (126)

Jan 18, 2024 | dental-update.co.uk | FJ Trevor Burke

Article A mouthful of humour The flyer states ‘. This reviewer had anticipated a series of anecdotes relating to events in the surgery, and this is indeed the case. However, the first chapters of the book are an interesting potted history of life as a dental student in 1967, including how David entered dental school: this autobiographical history is well worth reading, especially by younger readers who will not be aware of how different things were then.
Sustainability and leaking restorations

Dec 15, 2023 | dental-update.co.uk | FJ Trevor Burke

Article Sustainability has, rightly, become a much-addressed subject in relation to clinical dentistry, let alone to the world in general.
The rise and rise of toothwearology

Nov 16, 2023 | dental-update.co.uk | FJ Trevor Burke

Article Welcome to this special issue of Dental Update on tooth wear. First, we had cariology, then we had periodontology, so I suggest that we now need ‘toothwearology’, given that this is something that general dentists will see in their patients, young and old, on a regular basis.
The Most User-friendly Bond is…

Oct 17, 2023 | dental-update.co.uk | FJ Trevor Burke

Article As readers are increasingly ditching (pardon the pun!) amalgam, as I did over 20 years ago, in favour of resin composite in posterior teeth, some may ask themselves, why did we stick with it for so long? Daresay some of the answers are found in Louis Mackenzie' s superb article on dental amalgam published 2 years ago, which may well go down in history as the last major review on this material.1 In this, he published a table with 19 advantages relating to dental amalgam.
The personal touch

Jul 31, 2023 | dental-update.co.uk | FJ Trevor Burke

Article Most readers will have been aware of the rise in corporate ownership of UK dental practices, be that because they have read the press announcements of burgeoning numbers of corporate purchases of dental practices, and also the mushrooming numbers of corporate chains.
We could have told you so!

Apr 24, 2023 | dental-update.co.uk | FJ Trevor Burke

Article ‘A pessimist is simply an optimist with experience’ Ehud Barak ‘A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty’ Winston Churchill Readers may have read about the House of Commons Health and Social Care Committee Ninth Report on NHS Dentistry (2022–2023) (herein referred to as the Committee) that was published in mid-July 2023.1 However, I don't imagine that many readers will have read its 46 pages, so I will help with that by...