Andrew Flett

Consultant Orthodontist, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham, UK

Aesthetic and custom-made interim space maintainers

An 11-year-old patient was referred from a regional dental hospital paediatric department to the orthodontic department at Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, with replacement resorption of the UR1...

Premature deciduous tooth loss: a rare case of detrimental sequelae to the permanent dentition

A 17-year-old male patient, AH, was referred by his general dental practitioner to the orthodontic department at a district hospital regarding his unerupted UR5, congenitally absent lower 5s and...

Orthodontic rescue of a case of bilaterally ectopic canines causing root resorption of central and lateral incisors

The patient presented at 14 years old, fit and well, taking no regular medications and had no known drug allergies. She was referred because neither of the maxillary canines had erupted. After...

Interceptive correction of a deranged occlusion

A 7-year-old girl was referred by her general dental practitioner to the orthodontic department with a submerging deciduous maxillary second molar. There was no family history of any dental anomalies...

Multiple unerupted teeth – an interesting challenge

The term PFE was coined by Proffit and Vig in their seminal research on the topic.4 It is a rare condition with a prevalence of 0.06%.5 Subsequent research has refuted some of their initial...

Book review

On first receiving this book, I was delighted to hold and review the book due to its outstanding binding and presentation. The book itself comes in A4 landscape format, with a solid metal ring binder...