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• http://www.nature.com/ebd
• Editor: Derek Richards
• Volume 9: 4 issues per year
• ISSN: 1462-0049
• EISSN: 1476-5446
• Impact factor : 3.697*
• Date Established: 1998
• Published on behalf of: The British Dental Association

Aims and Scope:

EBD (Evidence-Based Dentistry) aims to improve the practice of dentistry by combining sound, clinical experience with the best available research in a highly critical manner. The developments in the field have led to a barrage of groundbreaking research, but conclusive evidence can take time to filter down to the practitioner, and once it has, it becomes scattered in numerous journals worldwide.

EBD provides a central resource for the most cutting-edge and relevant issues concerning the evidence-based approach in dentistry today.

The aim of EBD is to alert clinicians to important advances in the practice of dentistry and its specialist areas. It selects original review articles from the biomedical literature, systematically examining the scientific evidence to support or refute current methods in oral health care. These articles are summarized in value-added abstracts and commented on by experts.

In addition, EBD is an invaluable tool for specialist practitioners and researchers needing to maintain an awareness of new approaches outside their branch of dentistry.

Readership:

General dental practitioners, specialist practitioners and dental researchers.

The key elements of its content:

• Editorials - topical and agenda-raising issues in evidence-based dentistry
• Summaries - brief, expert commentaries on selected articles
• Toolbox - bite-size pieces of information, making sense of the most complex of issues in evidence-based dentistry
• Letters - a platform for your ideas, providing feedback on the summaries and the journal in general
• Digest - concise summaries of articles from a wide range of other journals and publications


Questions covered by the journal recently:
• Does each portion of fruit or vegetable consumed halve the risk of oral cancer?
• Does school dental screening increase dental attendance rates or reduce disease levels?
• Does APF foam reduce caries in primary teeth?
• Which sealant system should I use?
• Do preformed metal crowns last longer than fillings?
• What effectiveness does calcium hydroxide have in eliminating bacteria from human root canal?
• Implant retained or conventional dentures, which give more patients satisfaction?
• Does pulp capping result in the formation of a hard tissue barrier?

What makes EBD stand apart from other dental journals?

• Bridging the gap between research and dental practice - For the really important decisions - the ones that impact on the diagnosis and care of patients - dental practitioners need to know the clinical evidence is there to support their decisions. EBD systematically examines the scientific evidence to support or refute current methods for providing oral health care. It makes sense of the most complex issues, theories and statistics.
• Time-saving - The problem for most practitioners and researchers is there is just too much information to read - and too little time to evaluate it. EBD provides a single, accessible source of groundbreaking issues in dentistry, improving access to high-quality research.
• Global coverage - EBD covers papers from the global research community, reflecting the wider international perspective now given to the field of evidence-based dentistry.
• Esteemed Editorial Board - Led by Derek Richards, a pioneering figure in the field of evidence-based dentistry, the Editorial Team is full of well-respected and high-profile figures from across the world.

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