Instructions to the Authors

Dental Hypotheses is to provide a forum for the presentation and criticism of original, innovative and thought provocative ideas in dentistry and the related sciences. Dental Hypotheses will publish new, challenging and radical ideas, so long as they are coherent and clearly expressed. Most dental journals will publish ideas only in papers which also report observations. As the best scientists have repeatedly emphasized, this gives a misleading impression of the process of discovery. Dental Hypotheses can therefore form a bridge between cutting edge theory and the mainstream of dental scientific communication, which ideas must eventually enter if they are to be critiqued and tested against observations. This also means that we encourage authors to take responsibility for their ideas. Dental Hypotheses is the offical publication of the American Biodontics Society and the Center for Research and Education in Technology. Scope of the journal The journal will cover technical and clinical studies related to health, ethical and social issues in field of Oral tissue engineering, nano-dentistry, biodontics, biomimetics, dental biomaterials, dental equipment, restorative dentistry, periodontology, endodontology, operative dentistry, prosthodontics, paediatric dentistry, orthodontics, implantology, cosmetic dentistry, oral and maxillofacial surgery, oral-general health relationships, evidence-based dentistry, dental economics, cariology, craniofacial genetics, community dental health and dental education.. Articles with clinical interest and implications will be given preference. The Editorial Process A manuscript will be reviewed for possible publication with the understanding that it is being submitted to Dental Hypotheses alone at that point in time and has not been published anywhere, simultaneously submitted, or already accepted for publication elsewhere. The journal expects that authors would authorize one of them to correspond with the Journal for al