Research Articles (Original Research): Present new, significant findings with empirical data (Abstract, Intro, Methods, Results, Discussion).

Review Articles : (Minireviews, Systematic Reviews): Synthesize existing literature to provide an overview of a field, often written by experts.

Commentaries/Perspectives/Editorials /Letter to Editor: Offer viewpoints, critiques, or insights on current research or trends, sometimes including personal opinions or future directions.Short Communications/Brief Reports: Concise reports of significant findings, shorter than full research articles.

Technical Notes/Methods: Describe new methodologies, reagents, or technical advancements.

Resource Articles: Share valuable datasets, protocols, or biological resources

Original research papers, Reviews, Letter to Editor can be submitted to the AuthorsJournals on the understanding that the work has not been published previously in whole or part and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. Manuscripts in basic dental science and clinical dentistry are both considered. Currently there is no restriction on the length of research papers and reviews; however, authors are urged to be concise. Short Research Communication presents a concise study, or sometimes preliminary but innovative and important research findings that might be less substantial than a full research paper. Short research communication is limited to be under 2500 words including references.

Authorship

It is the responsibility of every person listed as an author of an article submitted to this journal to follow the 4 criteria about the authorship recommended by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE):Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; Drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content; Final approval of the version to be published; Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.

Plagiarism

Submission

• To submit a new manuscript, please go to here(Journal Link ). There are no formatting requirements for manuscripts submitted for review purposes.
• To submit a revision, please login in here(Journal Link) and follow the "Submit revision" link. Do not submit a revision as a new submission.

All files should be submitted online in the journal's web site. Submissions by email of any manuscript files, either to the editors or to the journal office, are not acceptable and are discarded automatically.

The submitting author must be the corresponding author or one of the corresponding authors.

Please embed figures and tables in the manuscript to become one single file for submission (Word or PDF) in the journal website. Once submission is complete, the system will generate a manuscript ID sent to the author's contact email.

Review/Decisions:

Manuscripts that are judged to be of insufficient quality or unlikely to be competitive enough for publication are rejected during initial screening. The remaining manuscripts go through a Double-blind peer review process with two or more reviewers. In Double-blind review, reviewers' identities are hidden from the authors and vice versa. Possible decisions after review are: accept as is, minor revision, major revision, or reject. Authors should submit back their revisions within 3 months in the case of minor revision, or 6 months in the case of major revision. If longer time is needed, please contact the editor in charge for extension. To submit a revision please Sign in Here and use the submit button at the right side of page. Manuscripts with significant results are typically reviewed and published at the highest priority.

Copyright License:

Article Processing Charges

Graphical Abstracts:

Authors should provide a graphical abstract (a beautifully designed feature figure) to represent the paper aiming to catch the attention and interest of readers. Graphical abstract will be published online in the table of content. The graphical abstract should be colored, and kept within an area of 12 cm (width) x 6 cm (height). Image should have a minimum resolution of 600 dpi and line art 1200 dpi. Note: Height of the image should be no more than half of the width. Please avoid putting too much information into the graphical abstract as it occupies only a small space. Graphical abstract can be provided in the format of jpg (preferred), PDF, Word, PowerPoint, or png, after a manuscript is accepted for publication.

Format for Publications

Once a manuscript is accepted, authors should provide a final version (in Microsoft Word file) according to the guidelines here for copyediting purpose and publication. Note that the final manuscript must be provided in Microsoft Word, and we cannot accept Latex and Tex files.

Please include figures at the end of the manuscript Word file, or provide a high quality PDF containing all figures. Make sure images are of highest resolution, and any letters inside are clear and legible. If the figures or tables are created using PowerPoint, Photoshop, Microsoft Excel etc, please also provide the original files from those programs.

Title Page :

The first letter of each word in the title should use upper case. Include in the first page the article title, author's names, affiliations, corresponding author's phone/fax number and/or email. Also provide 3-5 keywords.

Abstract should not contain citations to references, any images or math equations.

Author's names: please provide full names. Important! Please write first name and middle name before surname or lastname, e.g., "Mike Johnson" (not "Johnson, Mike"; not "Johnson M."; not "M. Johnson").

Authorship: The list of authors and contributors should conform to the guidelines as set out in the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE). https://www.equator-network.org/ .

Web Pages /Web Links

Text

In the main text or figure/table legends, please do not color the fonts or use smaller font size to distinguish one text from other texts. In our xml, only bold, italic, superscript and subscript are allowed.

Please do not add numbers before subtitles (This does not apply for Review or mini-review).

Tables & Figures

Tables and Figures should be numbered consecutively. Citation of tables and figures should use the format: Table 1, Table 2, ... Figure 1, Figure 2, ... (or Fig. 1, Fig. 2, ...). Parts in a figure can be identified by A, B, C, D, ... . and cited as Figure 2A, Figure 2B, Figure 2C. Do not abbreviate the word "Table" to "Tab.".

Tables: Please create/format tables using Microsoft Word table format. Tables must be editable, and not as images.

Figures: Resolutions for images should be at least 600 dpi, and for line arts at least 1200 dpi. Graphics downloaded from the Internet are not acceptable because the 72 dpi resolution is too low for satisfactory reproduction. Please submit one (1) highest quality PDF containing all figures (one figure per page). Please remove the word "Figure" or "Fig" from the image itself.

Math Formulas & Symbols

Simple mathematical formulas should be constructed in normal text using superscript, subscript, italic, and symbols in Microsoft Word.

• Use symbols in the Fonts: (normal text) or Symbol fonts. To insert a symbol, use Insert/symbol in the Word menu.
• Use / for "divide" or "over". For example, 1/7, 5/(4+6).
• Use Symbol fonts for "±"; "≤" and "≥" (avoid underline).

* Please avoid using math equations of Word whenever possible, because in the full text xml/html version, math equations are replaced by images, which does not look good in the normal flow of text.

References

List references in alphabetical order according to APA style. Each reference listed should be cited in the body of the text, and citations to each text should be listed in the references section.

Tables

• Tables should be self-explanatory and should not duplicate textual material.
• Number tables, in Arabic numerals, consecutively in the order of their first citation in the text and supply a brief title for each.
• Place explanatory matter in footnotes, not in the heading.
• Explain in footnotes all non-standard abbreviations that are used in each table.
• Obtain permission for all fully borrowed, adapted, and modified tables and provide a credit line in the footnote.
• For footnotes use the following symbols, in this sequence: *, †, ‡, §, ||,¶ , **, ††, ‡‡
• Tables with their legends should be provided at the end of the text after the references. The tables along with their number should be cited at the relevant place in the text

Illustrations (Figures)

• Upload the images in JPEG format. The file size should be within 1024 kb in size while uploading.
• Figures should be numbered consecutively according to the order in which they have been first cited in the text.
• Labels, numbers, and symbols should be clear and of uniform size. The lettering for figures should be large enough to be legible after reduction to fit the width of a printed column.
• Symbols, arrows, or letters should contrast with the background and should be marked neatly with transfer type or by tissue overlay and not by pen.
• Titles and detailed explanations belong in the legends for illustrations not on the illustrations themselves.
• When graphs, scatter-grams or histograms are submitted the numerical data on which they are based should also be supplied.
• The photographs and figures should be trimmed to remove all the unwanted areas.
• If photographs of individuals are used, their pictures must be accompanied by written permission to use the photograph.
• If a figure has been published elsewhere, acknowledge the original source and submit written permission from the copyright holder to reproduce the material. A credit line should appear in the legend for such figures.
• Legends for illustrations: Type or print out legends for illustrations using double spacing, with Arabic numerals corresponding to the illustrations. When symbols, arrows, numbers, or letters are used to identify parts of the illustrations, identify and explain each one in the legend.
• Final figures for print production: Send sharp, glossy, un-mounted, color photographic prints, with height of 4 inches and width of 6 inches at the time of submitting the revised manuscript. Print outs of digital photographs are not acceptable. If digital images are the only source of images, ensure that the image has minimum resolution of 300 dpi or 1800 x 1600 pixels in TIFF format. The Journal reserves the right to crop, rotate, reduce, or enlarge the photographs to an acceptable size.

Archiving

Our journal is fully open-access with articles freely available in the journal website including PDF, xml, and supplementary materials if applicable. All published articles of our journal are permanently archived by the research journal webpage. Authors are also encouraged to self-archive the published articles in their own or institutional websites as well as governmental websites, library websites, without permissions required.

Data deposit: Authors are expected to deposit any data and related metadata arising from the research in an appropriate public repository

Ethics Committee & Patient Consent :

Competing Interests

Competing interests (also called "Conflict of interests") that might interfere with the objective presentation of the research findings contained in the manuscript should be declared in a paragraph heading "Competing interests" (after Acknowledgement section and before References).

According to the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors: Financial relationships (such as employment, consultancies, stock ownership or options, honoraria, patents, and paid expert testimony) are the most easily identifiable, the ones most often judged to represent potential conflicts of interest and thus the most likely to undermine the credibility of the journal, the authors, and of science itself. Other interests may also represent or be perceived as conflicts, such as personal relationships or rivalries, academic competition, and intellectual beliefs. Authors should avoid entering into agreements with study sponsors, both for-profit and nonprofit, that interfere with authors' access to all of the study's data or that interfere with their ability to analyze and interpret the data and to prepare and publish manuscripts independently when and where they choose. Policies that dictate where authors may publish their work violate this principle of academic freedom. Authors may be required to provide the journal with the agreements in confidence.

Authors should fully disclose their conflicts of interest. If there is no conflict of interest, please use the statement "The authors have declared that no competing interest exists".

Publication Ethics

Our journals follow the guidelines as set out in the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) in dealing with publication ethics issues.

Commercial Advertising

Commercial advertising is not allowed in our journal.