BMC Oral Health

Teledentistry and Distance Learning: Improving Access to Oral Health Care and Education

BMC Oral Health has launched a new collection in support of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3 and SDG 10, which welcomes submissions that contribute to efforts to promote good health and wellbeing for all by using teledentistry and distance learning to improve access to oral health care and education. 

Please click the above link for further information and to submit to the collection.

Development of a secondary school-based digital behaviour change intervention to improve tooth brushing

Marshman et al. describe a digital intervention to improve the oral health of UK school children via classroom based sessions followed by text messages sent to student's mobile phones.

Old age and other factors associated with salivary microbiome variation

Schwartz et al. investigate how the makeup of the salivary microbiome changes with old age using next generation sequencing. 

November: Infection and health

The BMC Series journals would like to dedicate their November focus issue to the recent research into infections and health highlighting four key topics within research on infection - the biology, recent advances in detection and diagnosis, the risk factors and incidence reports and finally on the advances in treatment and combating of infection.  Browse the articles in the focus issue further to learn more.

October: Focus on Stem Cells

With Stem Cell Awareness day on the 13th October this year we have compiled an article collection from across different BMC Series journals covering aspects of basic stem cell biology; in vitro differentiation studies; stem-cell based therapy studies for various conditions in animal models; technical advancements and ethical issues.