This issue looks forward to times without the threat of Covid. We have a focus on the relationship between dental disease, other systemic conditions and wider health issues.

This issue continues to try to update dental teams about how best to practice dentistry in the Covid era, whilst also focussing on methods of reducing risk of dental disease to reduce treatment need.

This issue attempts to analyse all the best evidence about Covid-19, its effects on dental patients and practice, and the steps we need to take to mitigate risk, provide dental care and keep ourselves, our staff and our patients, safe.

This issue covers the full scope of oral health, the prevention of oral disease and the social clinical and economic consequences of the presence of disease and variation from the norm.