Preventive Dentistry

Preventive dentistry is dental care that helps to maintain good oral health. It emphasizes the importance of ongoing hygiene procedures and daily practices to prevent dental diseases and conditions. Preventing future dental diseases and complications from existing dental conditions is crucial to oral health sustainability, which is an integral part of general health. The Section “Preventive Dentistry” of the Dentistry Journal aims to publish the scientific studies of the highest quality in the field of preventive dentistry.

We welcome original articles, reviews, trial protocols, and case reports on scientific innovations and clinical and experimental research within the scope of preventive dentistry and related fields. Topics include but are not limited to:

• Oral hygiene promotion;
• Oral health promotion;
• Dental care;
• Rehabilitation of oral function;
• Early diagnosis of oral diseases;
• Cariology;
• Caries microbiology;
• Clinical management of dental caries;
• Caries risk evaluation and reduction;
• Clinical management of dental caries;
• Prevention of caries;
• Preventive measures in dentistry;
• Community dentistry;
• Evidence-based dentistry.