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We are pleased to announce that the website of the MDPI Sustainability Foundation has been revamped! For the past couple of months, our UX UI team and front-end developers have been working hard to launch the website in time for the opening of the Sustainability Awards nominations.

The website is not the only thing that has had a remodeling. Indeed, the format of the Emerging Sustainability Leader Award (ESLA) has been updated. ESLA is now a competition open to individual researchers or start-ups founded by researchers under the age of 35. Nominee applications will go through 2 rounds of selection until the final 3 are decided. The finalists will then be invited to give pitch presentations during the Award Ceremony to win either first place (10,000 USD) or runner-up (2 x 5000 USD).

The World Sustainability Award, on the other hand, remains the same: a total prize money of 100,000 USD is up for grabs by senior individual researchers or groups of researchers from the international research community.

Nominations for both the World Sustainability Award and the Emerging Sustainability Leader award are now open! Check out our new website for more information on how to nominate.

An update of the list of the top 2% most widely cited scientists has recently been published—the World’s Top 2% Scientists.

The time node of the statistical data of this list is from 1960 to 2022, and it is divided into two lists: “Lifetime Scientific Influence Ranking” and “2022 Annual Scientific Influence Ranking”. The “Lifetime Scientific Influence Ranking” counts the comprehensive influence performance of scientists during their careers, and the “2022 Annual Influence Ranking” focuses on highlighting the academic influence of scientists in the previous year. This ranking, considered the most prestigious worldwide, is based on the bibliometric information contained in the Scopus database and includes more than 200,000 researchers from the more than 10 million scientists considered to be active worldwide, with 22 scientific fields and 176 subfields taken into account.

We are pleased to share that 40 Editorial Board Members from MDPI’s Dentistry Journal (ISSN: 2304-6767) were featured in the list of the World’s Top 2% Scientists in 2022.

The latest rankings reflect the significant influence and research excellence of the scientists, who are committed to furthering their knowledge for the benefit of the world.

We would like to congratulate our Editorial Board Members on their excellent achievement and thank them for their immense contribution to the scientific progression and development of the Dentistry Journal.

1. “Oral Symptoms Associated with COVID-19 and Their Pathogenic Mechanisms: A Literature Review”
by Hironori Tsuchiya
Dent. J. 2021, 9(3), 32; https://doi.org/10.3390/dj9030032
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2304-6767/9/3/32 

2. “Periodontal and Peri-Implant Diseases and Systemically Administered Statins: A Systematic Review”
by Federica Di Spirito, Luigi Schiavo, Vincenzo Pilone, Antonio Lanza, Ludovico Sbordone and Francesco D’Ambrosio
Dent. J. 2021, 9(9), 100; https://doi.org/10.3390/dj9090100
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2304-6767/9/9/100
 
3. “Attitude towards Telemonitoring in Orthodontists and Orthodontic Patients”
by Domenico Dalessandri, Linda Sangalli, Ingrid Tonni, Laura Laffranchi, Stefano Bonetti, Luca Visconti, Alberto Signoroni and Corrado Paganelli
Dent. J. 2021, 9(5), 47; https://doi.org/10.3390/dj9050047
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2304-6767/9/5/47
 
4. “Cariogenic Biofilms: Development, Properties, and Biomimetic Preventive Agents”
by Frederic Meyer, Joachim Enax, Matthias Epple, Bennett T. Amaechi and Barbara Simader
Dent. J. 2021, 9(8), 88; https://doi.org/10.3390/dj9080088
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2304-6767/9/8/88
 
5. “Primary Evaluation of Shape Recovery of Orthodontic Aligners Fabricated from Shape Memory Polymer (A Typodont Study)”
by Tarek M. Elshazly, Ludger Keilig, Yasmine Alkabani, Ahmed Ghoneima, Moosa Abuzayda, Sameh Talaat and Christoph P. Bourauel
Dent. J. 2021, 9(3), 31; https://doi.org/10.3390/dj9030031
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2304-6767/9/3/31 

6. “The Impact of Sport Training on Oral Health in Athletes”
by Domenico Tripodi, Alessia Cosi, Domenico Fulco and Simonetta D’Ercole
Dent. J. 2021, 9(5), 51; https://doi.org/10.3390/dj9050051
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2304-6767/9/5/51 

7. “Additive Manufacturing of Zirconia Ceramic and Its Application in Clinical Dentistry: A Review”
by Leila Nasiry Khanlar, Alma Salazar Rios, Ali Tahmaseb and Amirali Zandinejad
Dent. J. 2021, 9(9), 104; https://doi.org/10.3390/dj9090104
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2304-6767/9/9/104 

8. “Prevalence of Dental Malocclusions in Different Geographical Areas: Scoping Review”
by Niccoló Cenzato, Anna Nobili and Cinzia Maspero
Dent. J. 2021, 9(10), 117; https://doi.org/10.3390/dj9100117
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2304-6767/9/10/117 

9. “The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Dental Education: An Online Survey of Students’ Perceptions and Attitudes”
by Ana Badovinac, Matej Par, Laura Plančak, Marcela Daria Balić, Domagoj Vražić, Darko Božić and Larisa Musić
Dent. J. 2021, 9(10), 116; https://doi.org/10.3390/dj9100116
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2304-6767/9/10/116

10. “Fluoride Varnishes for Preventing Occlusal Dental Caries: A Review”
by Alaa Baik, Najlaa Alamoudi, Azza El-Housseiny and Amani Altuwirqi
Dent. J. 2021, 9(6), 64; https://doi.org/10.3390/dj9060064
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2304-6767/9/6/64

11. “Influence of Dental Implant Diameter and Bone Quality on the Biomechanics of Single-Crown Restoration. A Finite Element Analysis”
by Eduardo Anitua, Naiara Larrazabal Saez de Ibarra, Iñigo Morales Martín and Luis Saracho Rotaeche
Dent. J. 2021, 9(9), 103; https://doi.org/10.3390/dj9090103
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2304-6767/9/9/103

12. “Novel Femto Laser Patterning of High Translucent Zirconia as an Alternative to Conventional Particle Abrasion”
by Emmanouil-George C. Tzanakakis, Anastasia Beketova, Lambrini Papadopoulou, Eleana Kontonasaki and Ioannis G. Tzoutzas
Dent. J. 2021, 9(2), 20; https://doi.org/10.3390/dj9020020
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2304-6767/9/2/20 

13. “The Impact of Oral Health on Respiratory Viral Infection”
by Akio Tada and Hidenobu Senpuku
Dent. J. 2021, 9(4), 43; https://doi.org/10.3390/dj9040043
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2304-6767/9/4/43 

14. “Effect of Polishing Systems on the Surface Roughness of Nano-Hybrid and Nano-Filling Composite Resins: A Systematic Review”
by Robinson Jaramillo-Cartagena, Eider J. López-Galeano, Federico Latorre-Correa and Andrés A. Agudelo-Suárez
Dent. J. 2021, 9(8), 95; https://doi.org/10.3390/dj9080095
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2304-6767/9/8/95 

15. “Angiogenic Effects of Secreted Factors from Periodontal Ligament Stem Cells”
by Kengo Iwasaki, Keiko Akazawa, Mizuki Nagata, Motohiro Komaki, Yihao Peng, Makoto Umeda, Tetsuro Watabe and Ikuo Morita
Dent. J. 2021, 9(1), 9; https://doi.org/10.3390/dj9010009
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2304-6767/9/1/9

16. “A Comparison of Full Arch Trueness and Precision of Nine Intra-Oral Digital Scanners and Four Lab Digital Scanners”
by Adam B. Nulty
Dent. J. 2021, 9(7), 75; https://doi.org/10.3390/dj9070075
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2304-6767/9/7/75 

17. “Is There an Association between the Gingival Phenotype and the Width of Keratinized Gingiva? A Systematic Review”
by Elpiniki Vlachodimou, Ioannis Fragkioudakis and Ioannis Vouros
Dent. J. 2021, 9(3), 34; https://doi.org/10.3390/dj9030034
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2304-6767/9/3/34 

18. “Indocyanine Green-Assisted and LED-Light-Activated Antibacterial Photodynamic Therapy Reduces Dental Plaque”
by Sakari Nikinmaa, Niina Moilanen, Timo Sorsa, Juha Rantala, Heikki Alapulli, Anja Kotiranta, Petri Auvinen, Esko Kankuri, Jukka H. Meurman and Tommi Pätilä
Dent. J. 2021, 9(5), 52; https://doi.org/10.3390/dj9050052
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2304-6767/9/5/52

19. “Diagnostic Value of Fluorescence Methods, Visual Inspection and Photographic Visual Examination in Initial Caries Lesion: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis”
by Mai Thi Giang Thanh, Ngo Van Toan, Do Thi Thanh Toan, Nguyen Phu Thang, Ngoc Quang Dong, Nguyen Tien Dung, Phung Thi Thu Hang, Le Quynh Anh, Nguyen Thu Tra and Vo Truong Nhu Ngoc
Dent. J. 2021, 9(3), 30; https://doi.org/10.3390/dj9030030
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2304-6767/9/3/30

20. “Intra- and Interobserver Reliability of Bone Volume Estimation Using OsiriX Software in Patients with Cleft Lip and Palate Using Cone Beam Computed Tomography”
by Anuraj Singh Kochhar, Maninder Singh Sidhu, Mona Prabhakar, Ritasha Bhasin, Gulsheen Kaur Kochhar, Himanshu Dadlani, Gianrico Spagnuolo and Viral Vijay Mehta
Dent. J. 2021, 9(2), 14; https://doi.org/10.3390/dj9020014
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2304-6767/9/2/14

Peer Review Week began 19 September 2022 under the theme of “Research Integrity: Creating and Supporting Trust in Research”. Through various blog articles, podcast, and webinar, we discussed this crucial subject throughout the week, celebrating the essential role peer review plays in maintaining research quality.

To begin, we held a Webinar on the topic. Professor Peter W. Choate and Dr. Emmanuel Obeng-Gyasi joined Dr. Ioana Craciun, one of MDPI’s scientific officers, for an in-depth discussion.

We invite you to view the event recording:

During the week, the MDPI Blog in a series articles highlighted how good Peer Review safeguards research integrity. The following topics were covered:

• Peer Review Week 2022
• Research Integrity
• What We’ve Learned About Peer Review Reports
• 4 Steps to the Perfect Peer Review Report
• How to Write the Perfect Peer Review Report: An Interview
• Inviting Great Peer Reviewers

In a new edition of Insight Faster, an MDPI podcast, we were delighted to talk to the co-chairs of the Peer Review Week committee, Jayashree Rajagopalan (Senior Manager of Global Community Engagement for CACTUS) and Danielle Padula (Head of Marketing and Community Development at Scholastica) to get their take on this year’s event and its related topics.

You can find the Podcast here.

We hope you enjoy the contents!

Thank you for your continued support for the open access Dentistry Journal (ISSN: 2304-6767). We are very pleased to announce that the Dentistry Journal will receive an Impact Factor in June 2023.

We would like to extend our gratitude to the authors, editors, and reviewers whose efforts have helped us to achieve this milestone!

For more journal statistics, please visit https://www.mdpi.com/journal/dentistry/stats.

We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Chun Hung Chu has been appointed Editor-in-Chief for the new Section “Preventive Dentistry” of the Dentistry Journal (ISSN: 2304-6767).

Prof. Dr. Chu is a Professor and Associate Dean of the Faculty of Dentistry at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) with a demonstrated history of working in clinical dentistry, administration and leadership, clinical and basic research, and higher education. He is the President of the Society of Preventive Dentistry of Hong Kong (2021-2023), the President of the Asia Academy of Preventive Dentistry (2021-2023), a member of the FDI Public Health Committee (2021-2024), the Vice President of the Asian and Oceanian Federation of Conservative Dentistry (2020-2023) and the Immediate Past President of the South East Asia Association for Dental Education (2021-2023).

Prof. Dr. Chu has advanced professional clinical and research training, with a BDS, PDipDS, MDS and Ph.D. from HKU, and was ranked second by the QS world ranking for Dentistry in 2022. Prof. Dr. Chu is a Master of the Academy of General Dentistry (MAGD) and received the prestigious Lifelong Learning & Service Recognition award from the Academy of General Dentistry in 2015.

Prof. Dr. Chu practiced full-time comprehensive dentistry for 15 years and was the dental surgeon in charge of the HKU Health Service before he became a full-time academic in 2007. He is a fellow of the Hong Kong College of Dental Surgeons (FCDSHK), a fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine (FHKAM) and a registered specialist in family dentistry in Hong Kong. Through overseas examinations, Prof. Dr. Chu became a fellow of the Royal Australasians College of Dental Surgeons (FRACDS) in Sydney Australia, a dental fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (FDSRCSEd) in Edinburgh, UK, and a diplomate of the American Board of General Dentistry (ABGD) in Chicago, USA. He has lectured widely at national and international conferences.

Through his exceptional achievements in clinical care, teaching and research, Prof. Dr. Chu was elected as a fellow of the International College of Dentists (FICD), a fellow of the Faculty of Dental Trainers of the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh (FFDTEd) and a fellow of the Academy of Dental Materials (FADM).

Prof. Dr. Chu received a total of USD 9 million as the principal investigator of large external grants in Hong Kong. He has published extensively with a Scopus h index of 41. He is the Chief Editor for Frontiers for Oral Health in “Preventive Dentistry”, an editor of several reputable international journals such as BMC Oral Health, International Dental Journal, and JDR Clinical & Translational Research. He teaches restorative dentistry for dental students and supervises research for Ph.D. students and post-doctoral fellows. He has been an external examiner for undergraduate and postgraduate students from universities in Malaysia, Singapore and New Zealand.

Prof. Dr. Chu is a Board Director of Project Concern Hong Kong, a charity organization to serve people in need. He is a dental examiner of the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh and a Specialist Board Member in dental public health for the Royal Australasians College of Dental Surgeons.

Name: Prof. Dr. Chun Hung Chu

E-mail: chchu@hku.hk

Affiliation: Faculty of Dentistry, The University of Hong Kong

Research Interest: preventive dentistry; community dentistry; fluorides; dental caries

Homepage: https://hub.hku.hk/cris/rp/rp00022

The following is a short Q&A with Prof. Dr. Chun Hung Chu, who shared his vision for the journal with us, as well as his views on the research area:

Preventive dentistry is dental care that helps maintain good oral health. As a researcher and clinician with a focus on the prevention of oral diseases, I have taken up the role of Section Editor-in-Chief on “Preventive Dentistry” of the Dentistry Journal to promote preventive dental care.

The Dentistry Journal is the only MDPI journal in the field of dentistry. It is one of the most important dental journals to disseminate updated dental research.

Preventing future dental diseases and preventing complications from existing dental conditions are crucial to the future sustainability of oral health, which is an important and integral part of general health.

Publications in Open Access are free and readily available to all researchers and clinicians. They have increased visibility which enhances international recognition and scientific impact.

We warmly welcome Prof. Dr. Chun Hung Chu in his new role as Section Editor-in-Chief, and we look forward to him leading the Dentistry Journal and helping the journal to achieve many more milestones.

We are pleased to report that the CiteScore of the Dentistry Journal (ISSN: 2304-6767) has increased to 3.5 (from 2.2). It now ranks 41/109 (Q2) in the "General Dentistry” category. For full details of the current CiteScore release, please refer to the journal’s source profile at the following link: https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/21100901062.

Thank you to the authors, editors, and reviewers for their contributions. We are grateful for their excellent work that has helped us to achieve this milestone for Dentistry Journal!

Read more and submit at: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/dentistry.

MDPI’s Young Investigator Awards recognize promising junior researchers, acknowledge their contributions, and enhance communication among scientists. We are proud to present the winners for the year 2021 in the “Medicine & Pharmacology” category. The winners were selected by the journals’ editors.

We warmly congratulate the awarded young investigators for their outstanding contributions. MDPI will continue to provide support and recognition to the academic community.

Biomedicines:

• Jasper Fuk-Woo Chan, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong
• Mateusz Maciejczyk, Medical University of Bialystok, Poland

Current Oncology:

• Matteo Lambertini, University of Genova, Italy

Dentistry Journal:

• Helen Rogers, Newcastle University, UK

Healthcare:

• Amir Karami, University of South Carolina, USA

Journal of Clinical Medicine:

• Andrea Palermo, Campus Bio-Medico University, Italy

Journal of Personalized Medicine:

• Simone Di Franco, University of Palermo, Italy
• Catriona Hippman, University of Calgary, Canada

Medicina:

• Veeru Kasivisvanathan, University College London, UK
• Andrea Cortegiani, University of Palermo, Italy; University Hospital Policlinico Paolo Giaccone, Italy

Pharmaceutics:

• Qi Zhou, Purdue University, USA

We are proud to recognize the winners of MDPI’s 2021 Travel Awards in the “Medicine & Pharmacology” category for their outstanding presentations and to present them with the prize.

MDPI journals regularly offer travel awards to encourage talented junior scientists to present their latest research at academic conferences in specific fields, which helps to increase their influence.

The winners mentioned below were carefully selected by the journal editors based on an outline of their research and the work to be presented at an academic conference.

We would like to warmly congratulate the Travel Awards winners for the year 2021 and wish them the greatest success with their future research endeavors. MDPI will continue to enhance communication among scientists.

Biomedicines:

• Soheil Saeedi, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Dentistry Journal:

• Shawn Alexander Hallett, University of Michigan, USA

Medicines:

• Claire Albert, Yale University, USA

Pharmaceuticals:

• Raquel Filipa da Costa Viveiros, NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal
• Patrick Jim Küppers, University Hospital Bonn, Germany

In order to acknowledge our reviewers, who so generously dedicate their time to reviewing papers, and demonstrate diligence, professionalism, and timeliness when reviewing manuscripts, MDPI journals regularly offer outstanding reviewer awards to scholars who participate in the peer-review process.

We are proud to recognize winners for the year 2021 in the “Medicine & Pharmacology” category for their outstanding contributions among extensive competition by presenting them with an Outstanding Reviewer Award.

We would like to take this opportunity to congratulate all of the winners on their achievement. MDPI will continue to provide support and recognition to the academic community.

Cancers:

• Antonio G. Solimando, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
• Chenghui Li, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, USA
• Joaquim Carreras, Tokai University, Japan
• Pierfrancesco Franco, University of Turin School of Medicine, Italy
• Laurentiu Pop, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA

Current Oncology:

• Margaret Fitch, University of Toronto, Canada
• Caroline Mariano, BC Cancer Agency, Canada; University of British Columbia, Canada

Healthcare:

• Naser Alsharairi, Griffith University, Australia
• Peter W. Choate, Mount Royal University, Canada
• Qin Xiang Ng, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Journal of Clinical Medicine:

• Giulio Francesco, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
• Sebastian Schnaubelt, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
• Olga Kislitsina, Northwestern University, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, USA

Journal of Personalized Medicine:

• Onofrio Laselva, University of Foggia, Italy
• Ping-Hsun Wu, Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan
• Vladimir Vladimirov, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
• Mauro Giuffrè, University of Trieste, Italy

Medical Sciences:

• Erika Palmieri, National Cancer Institute at Frederick, USA

Tomography:

• Anjul Khadria, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA