title: A personal, historical view of the management of tooth wear.
abstract: The management of caries, periodontal disease and tooth wear has followed similar patterns over the last 30 years but at different rates. The reduced emphasis on surgery in the treatment of periodontal disease has now caught up with minimum interventive treatment of caries. Tooth wear is still, in my opinion, often over-treated and it is time that the management of tooth wear followed the same pattern.
authors.affiliation: Guy's and St Thomas's Medical and Dental School, University of London.
authors.forename: B G
authors.initials: BG
authors.lastname: Smith
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D019217:Tooth Attrition / Q000628:therapy*