EDITORIAL Quality Assurance of Research in Dental Education

Recently there are 30 dental institutions in Indonesia which some of them are still managed by Faculty of Medicine. Each institution is trying to develop their education system to meet Quality Assurance (QA) guideline established by the government. Unfortunately the focus of development is restricted to teaching and learning activities, while the quality of research is still left behind.1 Hence the research development will increase competitiveness of institution and a good research can be used to solve some dental problems such as enhancement of dental services to community and development of dental instruments as well as dental material. Research is a part of ‘Tridharma Perguruan Tinggi’ so each institution should commit to this activity and facilitate the faculty to do research as their contribution to knowledge and technology development. Involvement of undergraduate and postgraduate students in research activity may improve academic atmosphere, in th