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.

Efficacy of a new-generation platelet-rich fibrin in the treatment of periodontal intrabony defects: a randomized clinical trial

Csifó-Nagy et al. investigate the clinical efficacy of new-generation platelet-rich fibrin for periodontal healing in treating intrabony defects.

December: HIV

For World AIDS day, the BMC Series Journals dedicate this month's focus issue to research on HIV and AIDS highlighting recent advancements in understanding the biology of the disease, the continued breakthroughs in diagnosis and treatment and also shed some light on what life with HIV is like. 

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.