Editorial: The Inevitable Change

Since the Focal Infection Theory in 1904, there has been a huge amount of dental and medical literature that put all of us at the forefront of knowledge. Indeed, biomedical literature is roughly doubling every ten years, which helps a lot those, among us, who wish to keep up with recent developments in dentistry and dental medicine. But, despite overabundance of information , time remains relatively limited , a large number of papers are rarely (if never) cited and many of these unknown papers represent real failures, and this reminds us that approaching scientific papers will always require reasoning , rigor, objectivity , accuracy and evidence. Being surrounded by a world driven by information technology, gene therapy, tissue engineering and super sophisticated implantology, the average–non academic – dental general practitioner needs to gather the makes–sense critical spirit and the naïve reason mind in order to read and rely on a few well–chosen periodicals that will keep his/her memory fresh and his/her spirit open to innovations