This issue evaluates the evidence of effectiveness of some of the major dental public health initiatives and policy decisions. It also explores whether new approaches to prevention and treatment might prove effective against the most common dental diseases.

This issue of Evidence Based Dentistry seeks to present readers and clinicians with widest possible spectrum of information about dentistry and oral health. It describes evidence from social and public health, oral medicine, and surgical and restorative research. The focus is , however, on the external influences on oral health