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Volume 222 Issue 4, 24 February 2017

The SEM series: Dental plaque

Each cover in volume 222 of the BDJ will feature a scanning electron microscope image showing bacteria or tissues found in the mouth. Scanning electron microscopes (SEMs) allow us to look at surfaces in nano-dimensions, 100 million times smaller than the human eye can see. They work by using beams of electrons instead of light rays. These electrons bounce off the surface of the material in question and are directed at a screen (like a cathode-ray TV screen) where they display a picture of the surface.

This issue features an SEM image of plaque-forming bacteria.

Credit: STEVE GSCHMEISSNER/Science Photo Library

Volume 222 Issue 4

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Interview

  • Dr Christopher Longbottom is Assistant Director of the Dental Innovation and Translation Centre (DITC), King's College London, where he helps develop technology applications for clinical use, principally in dentistry. He has been involved in the application of optical, electrical and ultrasound methodologies to caries detection, dental erosion detection, and monitoring of the developing occlusion. Chris graduated from Dundee in 1971 and after working in general practice, spent 13 years in the Community Dental Service before teaching paediatric dentistry at Dundee as a Senior Lecturer until 2012, after which he moved to King's to help set up the DITC with Nigel Pitts.

    • Kate Quinlan
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Other Journals in Brief

  • A selection of abstracts of clinically relevant papers from other journals. The abstracts on this page have been chosen and edited by John R. Radford. The papers summarised in this issue of the BDJ have been selected from those ten most read published during 2016 in J Dent Res (Impact Factor 4.062 and ranked second in dentistry). Most of these papers explore the oral sciences. Those included in this section, have an increased focus on the practice of dentistry (one paper has been previously summarised in the Br Dent J – DOI: 10.1038/sj.bdj.2016.598).

    Other Journals in Brief

  • A selection of abstracts of clinically relevant papers from other journals. The abstracts on this page have been chosen and edited by John R. Radford. The papers summarised in this issue of the BDJ have been selected from those ten most read published during 2016 in J Dent Res (Impact Factor 4.062 and ranked second in dentistry). Most of these papers explore the oral sciences. Those included in this section, have an increased focus on the practice of dentistry (one paper has been previously summarised in the Br Dent J – DOI: 10.1038/sj.bdj.2016.598).

    Other Journals in Brief

  • A selection of abstracts of clinically relevant papers from other journals. The abstracts on this page have been chosen and edited by John R. Radford. The papers summarised in this issue of the BDJ have been selected from those ten most read published during 2016 in J Dent Res (Impact Factor 4.062 and ranked second in dentistry). Most of these papers explore the oral sciences. Those included in this section, have an increased focus on the practice of dentistry (one paper has been previously summarised in the Br Dent J – DOI: 10.1038/sj.bdj.2016.598).

    Other Journals in Brief

  • A selection of abstracts of clinically relevant papers from other journals. The abstracts on this page have been chosen and edited by John R. Radford. The papers summarised in this issue of the BDJ have been selected from those ten most read published during 2016 in J Dent Res (Impact Factor 4.062 and ranked second in dentistry). Most of these papers explore the oral sciences. Those included in this section, have an increased focus on the practice of dentistry (one paper has been previously summarised in the Br Dent J – DOI: 10.1038/sj.bdj.2016.598).

    Other Journals in Brief
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