Current Views in Dentistry

1. Editorial Mission

Current Views in Dentistry is an independent, not-for-profit, open-access journal committed to the timely publication of thoughtful, evidence-informed, and intellectually responsible contributions across dentistry, oral health sciences, dental education, dental technology, clinical practice, public health, and related biomedical disciplines.

The journal aims to provide a flexible scholarly platform for manuscripts that may not always fit within the conventional formats of traditional academic journals, while maintaining the essential standards of scientific reasoning, ethical conduct, methodological transparency, and editorial integrity. The journal welcomes both established forms of scholarship and emerging forms of academic communication that contribute meaningfully to the advancement, reinterpretation, and responsible application of knowledge in dentistry and oral health sciences.

Current Views in Dentistry was founded on the belief that scientific progress is driven not only by completed experiments and authoritative reviews, but also by new ideas, critical reflection, conceptual exploration, technical innovation, and constructive dialogue. The journal therefore seeks to support rigorous ideas, responsible imagination, and evidence-informed perspectives across the full spectrum of dentistry.

2. Editorial Scope

The journal considers manuscripts from all areas of dentistry and related disciplines, including but not limited to clinical dentistry, oral biology, craniofacial science, dental materials, digital dentistry, artificial intelligence, robotics, dental education, professional training, public oral health, health policy, ethics, aging science, translational research, and interdisciplinary biomedical sciences.

Submissions should contribute to one or more of the following aims:

• advancing new knowledge or scientific understanding;
• clarifying emerging concepts, techniques, or technologies;
• reinterpreting established knowledge in light of new developments;
• identifying evidence gaps and future research directions;
• introducing technical or methodological innovations;
• reflecting critically on education, clinical practice, policy, or professional issues;
• promoting constructive scholarly discussion across disciplines.

The journal values originality, clarity, evidence-informed reasoning, intellectual contribution, and responsible scholarly communication. Novelty alone is not sufficient for publication; manuscripts should demonstrate clear purpose, appropriate engagement with existing literature, and relevance to dentistry, oral health sciences, or related fields.

3. Article Types

Current Views in Dentistry considers manuscripts that contribute meaningfully to the advancement, reinterpretation, discussion, or responsible application of knowledge across dentistry and oral health sciences. The journal welcomes diverse scholarly formats while maintaining a commitment to evidence-informed reasoning, clarity of argument, intellectual integrity, and responsible scientific communication.

The journal currently considers the following article types.

Original Research

Original Research articles report empirical, experimental, clinical, translational, educational, technological, public health, or interdisciplinary research that presents original data and contributes new knowledge to dentistry, oral health sciences, or related biomedical fields. Submissions should include a clear research question or objective, appropriate methodology, transparent reporting of results, balanced interpretation, and sufficient discussion of limitations.

Review Article

Review Articles synthesize, interpret, or critically examine existing knowledge in a defined area relevant to dentistry, oral health sciences, dental education, clinical practice, technology, public health, policy, or related disciplines. This category includes narrative reviews, critical reviews, integrative reviews, conceptual reviews, systematic reviews, and scoping reviews. Systematic reviews and scoping reviews should follow appropriate reporting standards, such as PRISMA or PRISMA-ScR, when applicable.

Opinion

Opinion articles provide evidence-informed perspectives, critical reflections, conceptual arguments, or policy-oriented proposals on important issues in dentistry and oral health sciences. Opinion articles may take a clear position, but they should be grounded in appropriate evidence, transparent reasoning, and constructive scholarly tone. Unsupported assertions, promotional claims, personal attacks, or purely speculative arguments are not suitable for publication.

Technical Breakthrough

Technical Breakthrough articles describe novel techniques, devices, digital workflows, experimental methods, educational tools, clinical procedures, technological applications, or other practical innovations that may have significant implications for research, education, clinical practice, or professional development in dentistry. Manuscripts should explain the background, rationale, technical principles, potential applications, limitations, and future implications of the innovation.

Letter to the Editor

Letters to the Editor are brief scholarly communications that respond to articles published in Current Views in Dentistry, comment on timely issues, raise critical questions, or contribute focused perspectives relevant to the journal’s scope. Letters should be concise, respectful, evidence-informed, and relevant to dentistry or oral health sciences.

Editorials and Invited Contributions

The journal may publish editorials, invited articles, special communications, or thematic contributions when they are consistent with the journal’s aims and editorial standards. Invited status does not guarantee acceptance. All invited contributions must comply with the journal’s standards for originality, authorship, conflicts of interest, ethical conduct, and responsible interpretation.

4. Editorial Independence

Editorial decisions are made independently by the Editor-in-Chief, editors, and designated editorial decision-makers. Decisions are based on scholarly merit, relevance to the journal’s scope, originality, clarity, ethical acceptability, methodological soundness, and contribution to the field.

Editorial decisions are not influenced by authors’ nationality, institutional affiliation, seniority, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, political views, personal relationships, financial status, or ability to pay publication fees.

As an independent, not-for-profit journal, Current Views in Dentistry maintains a clear separation between editorial decisions and financial matters, including donations, sponsorships, institutional support, or article processing charges. No payment, waiver, donation, sponsorship, or external support can guarantee acceptance or influence editorial judgment.

5. Initial Editorial Assessment

All submitted manuscripts undergo initial editorial assessment before peer review. At this stage, editors evaluate whether the manuscript is within the journal’s scope, whether it is suitable for one of the journal’s article types, whether it meets basic standards of scholarly presentation, and whether there are obvious ethical, methodological, or originality concerns.

A manuscript may be returned to the authors without external review if it is outside the scope of the journal, lacks sufficient scholarly substance, fails to meet basic ethical or reporting standards, contains unsupported claims, shows substantial overlap with previously published work, or is not suitable for the journal’s readership.

Editorial rejection at this stage does not necessarily imply that the work lacks value. It may simply mean that the manuscript is not appropriate for Current Views in Dentistry in its current form.

6. Peer Review Policy

Most scholarly manuscripts submitted to Current Views in Dentistry will undergo peer review. The journal uses peer review to support editorial decision-making, improve manuscript quality, and protect the integrity of the published scholarly record.

The journal’s default peer-review model is double-anonymized peer review. Under this model, the identities of both authors and reviewers are concealed during the peer-review process as far as reasonably possible.

Authors are therefore expected to prepare manuscripts in a way that supports anonymized review. The submitted manuscript file should not contain author names, institutional affiliations, acknowledgements, funding details, ethics approval information that directly identifies the institution, or other information that could readily reveal the authors’ identities. Such information should be provided separately in the title page, cover letter, or submission metadata, as instructed by the journal.

Reviewers are expected to evaluate manuscripts fairly, constructively, confidentially, and without personal, institutional, financial, ideological, or academic bias. Reviewers should assess the manuscript’s scholarly quality, originality, evidential support, methodological appropriateness, ethical acceptability, clarity, relevance, and contribution to the journal’s readership.

Editors will normally seek advice from one or more reviewers with relevant expertise. Certain content, such as editorials, invited commentaries, announcements, or non-research communications, may be evaluated through internal editorial review rather than external peer review.

Reviewers must decline an invitation to review if they have a conflict of interest, lack sufficient expertise, cannot provide a timely review, or believe they cannot evaluate the manuscript impartially. Reviewers must not use unpublished information obtained through peer review for personal, professional, institutional, or commercial advantage.

Final editorial decisions are made by the Editor-in-Chief or designated handling editors based on reviewer comments, editorial assessment, ethical considerations, relevance to the journal, and the manuscript’s overall scholarly contribution.

7. Editorial Decision Categories

After editorial evaluation and, when applicable, peer review, manuscripts may receive one of the following decisions.

• Accept. The manuscript is accepted for publication, subject only to editorial and production processing.
• Minor Revision. The manuscript is potentially acceptable after limited revisions that do not require substantial changes to the study design, argument, evidence base, or conclusions.
• Major Revision. The manuscript requires substantial revision before it can be reconsidered. A decision of major revision does not guarantee acceptance.
• Reject with Invitation to Resubmit. The manuscript is not acceptable in its current form, but the editors may invite a substantially revised version as a new submission.
• Reject. The manuscript is not suitable for publication in the journal.

Final editorial decisions rest with the Editor-in-Chief or designated handling editor.

8. Revision Policy

Authors invited to revise a manuscript should submit a revised version together with a clear response to reviewers and editors. The response should explain how each point was addressed, identify changes made in the manuscript, and provide a reasoned explanation when the authors disagree with a recommendation.

Revised manuscripts may be returned to the original reviewers, assessed by new reviewers, or evaluated by editors alone, depending on the nature and extent of the revisions.

The journal encourages constructive dialogue between authors, reviewers, and editors. However, acceptance depends on whether the revised manuscript satisfies the journal’s scholarly, ethical, methodological, and editorial standards.

9. Criteria for Publication

Manuscripts accepted by Current Views in Dentistry should generally satisfy the following criteria:

• relevance to dentistry, oral health sciences, or related disciplines;
• suitability for the selected article type;
• consistency with the journal’s aim of promoting rigorous ideas, responsible imagination, and constructive dialogue;
• clear scholarly purpose and contribution;
• appropriate use of evidence;
• methodological transparency, where applicable;
• ethical compliance in research involving humans, animals, biological materials, or identifiable data;
• balanced interpretation of findings or arguments;
• clear distinction between evidence, interpretation, opinion, and speculation;
• appropriate citation of relevant literature;
• transparency regarding conflicts of interest, funding, authorship, data availability, and AI-assisted tools;
• clear and accessible writing suitable for an interdisciplinary dental readership.

The journal encourages originality and imagination, but it does not publish unsupported speculation, promotional material, misleading claims, or manuscripts that fail to meet basic standards of responsible scholarly communication.

10. Invited Manuscripts

The journal may invite manuscripts from experts, scholars, educators, clinicians, policymakers, or innovators whose perspectives are relevant to the aims of the journal. Invited manuscripts are not automatically accepted. They remain subject to editorial assessment and, where appropriate, peer review.

The invited status of a manuscript does not exempt authors from requirements concerning originality, conflicts of interest, ethical approval, authorship, disclosure, citation, data integrity, or responsible interpretation.

11. Special Issues and Thematic Collections

Current Views in Dentistry may publish special issues or thematic collections on topics of scientific, educational, clinical, technological, or policy significance.

Special issues and thematic collections must follow the same editorial and ethical standards as regular submissions. Guest editors, if appointed, must disclose conflicts of interest and follow the journal’s editorial policies. Final editorial responsibility remains with the Editor-in-Chief or designated journal editor.

Special issues will not be used as a mechanism for lowering editorial standards, bypassing peer review, or promoting specific institutions, products, commercial entities, or personal networks.

12. Editorials, Opinions, and Policy-Oriented Articles

The journal welcomes opinion and policy-oriented manuscripts when they are evidence-informed, clearly reasoned, and relevant to the advancement of dentistry or oral health sciences.

Opinion articles may express a clear position, but they should distinguish factual claims from interpretation or personal perspective. Authors should avoid unsupported assertions, personal attacks, excessive advocacy, or conflicts of interest that compromise scholarly credibility.

Policy-oriented articles should be grounded in appropriate evidence, contextual understanding, and constructive reasoning. The journal encourages critical discussion, but expects professional tone and respect for diverse viewpoints.

13. Use of Artificial Intelligence and AI-Assisted Tools

Authors must disclose substantive use of artificial intelligence or AI-assisted tools when such tools have materially contributed to writing, translation, data analysis, literature synthesis, image generation, figure preparation, or other aspects of manuscript development.

AI tools cannot be listed as authors. Authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy, originality, ethical compliance, citation integrity, confidentiality, and scholarly validity of all submitted content.

Reviewers and editors must not upload confidential manuscripts, data, figures, or review materials to external AI tools or platforms unless confidentiality, data protection, and journal permission requirements are fully satisfied.

14. Language and Editing

The journal welcomes clear, precise, and accessible academic writing. Authors do not need to use unnecessarily complex language. The journal values clarity over stylistic ornamentation.

Manuscripts may undergo editorial language editing after acceptance. Such editing will not alter the scientific meaning of the manuscript without author approval. Authors remain responsible for the accuracy and integrity of the final published content.

15. Open Access Policy

Current Views in Dentistry is an open-access journal. Published articles are made freely available to readers without subscription barriers.

The journal supports broad dissemination of scholarly knowledge while respecting authorship, copyright, licensing, and proper attribution. Details regarding copyright and reuse licenses should be clearly stated on the journal website and in published articles.

16. Article Processing Charges

As an independent, not-for-profit journal, Current Views in Dentistry aims to avoid article processing charges whenever possible or to keep such charges minimal when unavoidable.

Any article processing charge, waiver, donation, institutional support, or other financial arrangement has no influence on editorial assessment, peer review, acceptance, rejection, correction, or retraction.

The journal will provide transparent information regarding any applicable fees before or during submission. Authors should not be surprised by undisclosed publication charges after acceptance.

17. Conflicts of Interest in Editorial Handling

Editors, editorial board members, reviewers, and staff must disclose conflicts of interest that may affect, or appear to affect, the handling of a manuscript.

Editors should not handle manuscripts submitted by close collaborators, institutional colleagues, recent coauthors, students, supervisors, family members, or individuals with whom they have significant personal, financial, academic, or professional conflicts.

When a manuscript is submitted by an editor, editorial board member, or person closely associated with the journal, the manuscript will be handled by an independent editor. The submitting editor or board member will not participate in the review or decision-making process.

18. Appeals

Authors may appeal editorial decisions if they believe that a decision was based on factual error, misunderstanding, procedural irregularity, or potential bias.

Appeals should be submitted in writing with a clear explanation and relevant supporting information. Appeals that merely express disagreement with reviewers’ opinions without substantive justification may not result in reconsideration.

The journal will evaluate appeals fairly, but the submission of an appeal does not guarantee reversal of the original decision.

19. Complaints

The journal will consider complaints regarding editorial process, peer review, publication ethics, conflicts of interest, corrections, retractions, or other matters related to journal operations.

Complaints should be submitted in writing and should include sufficient detail to allow appropriate assessment. The journal will handle complaints respectfully, confidentially, and as promptly as possible.

20. Corrections, Retractions, and Post-Publication Discussion

The journal is committed to maintaining the accuracy and integrity of the scholarly record. When errors or concerns are identified after publication, the journal may issue corrections, editorial notes, expressions of concern, or retractions as appropriate.

The journal welcomes responsible post-publication discussion, including letters to the editor and scholarly correspondence. Criticism should be evidence-based, professional, and relevant to the published work.

Retractions are used to correct the literature when findings or conclusions are unreliable due to major error, misconduct, unethical research, plagiarism, redundant publication, manipulated peer review, or other serious concerns. Retraction is intended to protect the scholarly record, not to punish authors.

21. Archiving and Long-Term Accessibility

The journal will seek appropriate mechanisms to preserve published content and ensure long-term accessibility.

As the journal’s publishing infrastructure develops, Current Views in Dentistry will make reasonable efforts to ensure that published articles remain accessible through stable digital identifiers, secure website management, appropriate metadata, and recognized archiving or indexing services when available.

The journal’s archiving policy should be clearly stated on the journal website and updated as additional preservation mechanisms are adopted.

22. Updates to Editorial Policy

This editorial policy may be revised as the journal develops and as standards of scholarly publishing evolve. Updated versions will be made available on the journal website.

Submissions will generally be evaluated according to the policy in effect at the time of submission, unless a change is required to address ethical, legal, or publication integrity concerns.