Dental journals provide timely, reliable and useful information on scientific communication and technical professional information for dentists. The objective of this editorial was to provide an insight into the role of dental journals in the process of publication and dissemination in evidence-based dentistry. Numerous dental journals existed and their numbers are ever-growing, their substantial contribution to evidence-based dentistry was demonstrated to be influenced by their editorial and publication policies, ethical guidelines, and authorship criteria, structured versus unstructured abstracts, quality of published abstracts, systematic reviews and randomized controlled trials, statistical methodological reporting, referencing accuracy and explicit reporting of conflicts of interest.

Keywords: Evidence-based dentistry; Dental research; Dental science; Research-based evidence.