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{"title":"ADRF ADJ Supplement Abstract","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/adj.70018","DOIUrl":"10.1111/adj.70018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8593,"journal":{"name":"Australian dental journal","volume":"70 4","pages":"305-312"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145538773","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Chairs Message","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/adj.70017","DOIUrl":"10.1111/adj.70017","url":null,"abstract":"<p>It is an honour to again present the ADRF Special Research supplement 2025 on behalf of the Foundation. The Board last year made significant changes to the grants process, and whilst this meant fewer grants, the monetary amount was raised significantly in the ambition of more extensive and outcome-driven benefits. We are indeed very grateful for the efforts of the Research Advisory Committee whose dedication and unremunerated work is of the highest standard. Their diligence, expertise and commitment in reviewing grant applications, selecting research recipients and monitoring outcomes is an arduous job and without their philanthropy, the success of the Foundation would flounder.</p><p>Thank you to:</p><p>Conjoint Prof Deb Cockrell, AM Chair</p><p>Prof Munira Xaymardan</p><p>Prof Loc Do</p><p>Prof Amr Fawzy Moussa</p><p>A/Prof Nicola Cirillo</p><p>Prof Robert Anthonappa</p><p>Prof Alastair Sloan</p><p>The members of the RAC.</p><p>This supplement contains reports of work from the last twelve months or so, and displays the diversity and quality of research that our candidates provide. They are to be congratulated and we are proud of the standard that they precipitate. The supplement extols and fosters the excellence within Australian Dental Academe and long may the Foundation be able to foster research of quality. Australian dental research is a poor cousin when compared to our medical colleagues; this is just a fact. However, with increasing evidence that dental disease has a significant influence and impact on general health, we believe that this imbalance needs to be addressed. Industry and dentists benefit significantly from these outcomes and I beseech everyone to consider an annual donation to the foundation so its work can be continued. Better dental outcomes for all and sundry impact everyday life and quantifiable research leads to better health policy as a whole!</p><p>We are indebted to those that continue their generous support, including Dr. Reg and the late Pam Hession, the Clark Family, Australian Dental Industry Association, ADA WA Branch, the late Dr. Jim Poyner, the International College of Dentists, the Oral Medicine Academy of Australia, GC Australia, the Straumann Group and the Estate of the late Barbara Hill.</p><p>The ADRF board would also like to recognise the important work of the Australian Dental Journal and its publisher Wiley for providing a platform to showcase ADRF grants research. I would also extend my hearty appreciation for our secretariat support from Mehak Sikka. I personally wish to thank the members of the Board for their due diligence and assistance in progressing the function outcomes, and goals of the Foundation.</p><p>Hugo Sachs (Chair)</p>","PeriodicalId":8593,"journal":{"name":"Australian dental journal","volume":"70 4","pages":"301-304"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/adj.70017","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145522984","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Dentists' Ability to Identify Tooth Resorption on Radiographic Images and Their Preferences for Terminology","authors":"Sheema Pham,&nbsp;Paul V. Abbott","doi":"10.1111/adj.70009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/adj.70009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8593,"journal":{"name":"Australian dental journal","volume":"70 4","pages":"299-300"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145625866","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Hunt for Impact","authors":"Ivan Darby","doi":"10.1111/adj.70010","DOIUrl":"10.1111/adj.70010","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Publishing a journal is all about impact. Impact is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as (1) the action of one object coming forcibly into contact with another or (2) a marked effect or influence. Obviously, for a journal, (1) should not apply. However, impact is important for a journal, especially if it is supported by an organisation. Many national and international societies run their own journals and often through a publishing house. This costs money.</p><p>Journal impact is defined by a number of metrics including journal impact factor, journal cite score and journal citation indicator, but what do these actually mean to the reader?</p><p>A Google search using the words “why does journal impact factor matter?” came up with the following artificial intelligence generated statement which sums up quite nicely. “Journal Impact Factor (JIF) matters as a benchmark for a journal's influence, quality, and importance within its field, affecting researchers' decisions on where to publish and influencing career advancement, promotions, and grant applications.” JIF is the traditional metric and all journals are ranked using it; the higher the better. JIF may be an indicator of journal quality, that is, what you read is important and/or of high scientific merit. It is be used by authors to decide where to publish. For example, the <i>Australian Dental Journal</i> receives over 800 submissions a year. Some academic institutions will look at JIF for academic promotions. Lastly, it may indicate if a journal should continue to be published. However, JIF has limitations as it reflects the journal overall and not individual papers, may be skewed by high citations of one paper, and is generally specific to just one field, such as dentistry. Hence the introduction of other metrics.</p><p>Journal CiteScore is stated by Wiley publishing house as “The CiteScore is calculated by dividing the number of citations to documents published in a 4-year period by the number of documents in same 4-year period.” Included in calculating its value are citations from articles, reviews, conference presentations, and book chapters, all of which really reflect the quality of the journal papers.</p><p>Lastly, the journal citation indicator looks at how the journal compares across different fields of research, not just dentistry, taking into account how many editions a year and how many citations. It is meant to allow easy comparison of a journal across disciplines.</p><p>These two measures are meant to complement and remove some of the issues with JIF. However, JIF is still the most commonly used. The 2024 JIF for the <i>Australian Dental Journal</i> is 2.4, the highest ever and places the journal in the top 25% of dental journals worldwide. There has been a conscious effort to promote Australian and New Zealand research, and it is pleasing to see that the quality of our research is recognised.</p><p>The author declares no conflicts of interest.</p>","PeriodicalId":8593,"journal":{"name":"Australian dental journal","volume":"70 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/adj.70010","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145273517","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Dentists' Ability to Identify Tooth Resorption on Radiographic Images and Their Preferences for Terminology","authors":"Sheema Pham,&nbsp;Paul V. Abbott","doi":"10.1111/adj.70003","DOIUrl":"10.1111/adj.70003","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Background</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Tooth resorption has no universal classification, which leads to confusion. The aims were to assess dentists' ability to radiographically identify resorption and to determine their terminology preferences for three types of resorption.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Materials and Methods</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Dentists completed an electronic questionnaire. Part 1 concerned professional profiles plus self-rating of each participant's level of resorption knowledge. In Part 2, participants identified types of resorption from radiographs. In Part 3, participants chose their preferred terminology and provided reasons for their choices.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Results</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Of 444 complete responses, 55.6% of participants self-rated their knowledge as ‘Acceptable’. The average number of correct responses when identifying resorption was 52.9% (6.3 out of 12; range: 0–12). Significant differences existed for gender, practice area, graduation year and education level. Preferred terms were external inflammatory resorption (72.3%) and external replacement resorption (63.3%) but no clear preference existed for external invasive resorption (31.8%) or external cervical invasive resorption (35.6%). Most common reasons for selecting terms were ‘more descriptive’, and a ‘more accurate representation of what occurs in the tissues’.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Conclusion</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>On average, dentists correctly identified 52.9% of the resorptive defects. There is a need for a standardised classification of the different types of tooth resorption.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":8593,"journal":{"name":"Australian dental journal","volume":"70 4","pages":"285-294"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/adj.70003","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144940453","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Supercharged Smiles: A Discourse Analysis of Australian Media Coverage of Funding Dental Care Through Superannuation","authors":"A. C. L. Holden","doi":"10.1111/adj.70002","DOIUrl":"10.1111/adj.70002","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Background</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The early use of superannuation savings towards dental treatment is a phenomenon that has emerged in recent years within Australia. This research investigates the media's response and coverage of how this usage of private, yet segregated funds has developed and grown. Through analysing the media's portrayal of this issue, valuable insights into dentists' evolving professionalism and societal attitudes towards oral health can be gained.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Methods</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>A search of two online databases and the grey literature was used to identify relevant media sources that related to the utilisation of superannuation funding to facilitate accessing dental care in the Australian private sector. A discourse analysis methodology was used to analyse the corpus of articles identified through the search strategy.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Results</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>A total of 36 separate, non-duplicate media articles were located through the search strategy. The discourse within the texts was examined and the key themes and power dynamics that emerged were explored in detail. The three themes used to structure the discussion of the corpus of articles were: (1) outrage at the necessity of compassionate release of superannuation for essential dental care; (2) the abuse of the compassionate release of superannuation for elective and cosmetic dental care; and (3) exploitation of vulnerable consumers by professionals.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Conclusion</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The overarching discourse relating to early superannuation access to fund dental care was negative, with media articles covering instances of consumers losing their money, having to pay more tax as a result of accessing their superannuation early than they were expecting, and the reality that accessing superannuation early has significant financial impacts later in life. Dentists and third-party access facilitators were portrayed as being exploitative and lacking in transparency in relation to the costs involved in early superannuation access. Dentists were also suggested to be aiding in the inappropriate access of superannuation funds for treatment that was largely elective and cosmetic in nature, rather than being more essential in nature in alignment with the intentions of the early compassionate release scheme.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":8593,"journal":{"name":"Australian dental journal","volume":"70 4","pages":"275-284"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/adj.70002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144858772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Artificial Intelligence in Australian Dental and General Healthcare: A Scoping Review","authors":"Arosha T. Weerakoon,&nbsp;Tonia Girdis,&nbsp;Ove Peters","doi":"10.1111/adj.70000","DOIUrl":"10.1111/adj.70000","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This review contextualises the role of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare within an Australian healthcare regulatory and ethical framework. Four online databases (PubMed, Scopus, CINAHL and Web of Science) were searched for peer-reviewed publications that addressed at least two of the three topics: (1) the current applications of AI in dentistry and healthcare; (2) data security and privacy in AI-enhanced healthcare; (3) ethical, legal and clinical implications of machine errors, and the delegation of healthcare responsibilities to large technology companies. A total of 31 articles were retrieved for full-text analysis using traditional and AI-assisted software. All studies showed promising use of AI to enhance clinical decision-making, automate administrative tasks and augment personalised care. However, integrating AI into the Australian healthcare context introduces complex ethical, regulatory and legal considerations that include bias, data privacy and ambiguous chains of responsibility. To maximise the benefits of AI technologies while safeguarding patient rights, practitioners and developers must establish regulatory frameworks, mandate practitioner training, foster multidisciplinary collaboration and maintain continuous rigorous oversight.</p>","PeriodicalId":8593,"journal":{"name":"Australian dental journal","volume":"70 4","pages":"209-256"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/adj.70000","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144815670","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Prevention of Medication-Related Osteonecrosis of the Jaw: Institutional Insights From a Retrospective Study","authors":"Girgis Christain,&nbsp;Schifter Mark","doi":"10.1111/adj.70001","DOIUrl":"10.1111/adj.70001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8593,"journal":{"name":"Australian dental journal","volume":"70 4","pages":"297-298"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144793359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Validity of Teledentistry Examinations During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Sydney, Australia","authors":"Tanya Mahony,&nbsp;Ajesh George,&nbsp;Shwetha Girish Kezhekkekara,&nbsp;Amy Villarosa,&nbsp;Christopher Friel,&nbsp;Albert Yaacoub","doi":"10.1111/adj.13084","DOIUrl":"10.1111/adj.13084","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8593,"journal":{"name":"Australian dental journal","volume":"70 3","pages":"195-196"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144688818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Australian Dental Practitioner Attitudes to Expanding Medicare to Include More Dental Services","authors":"M. S. Hopcraft,&nbsp;A. C. L. Holden","doi":"10.1111/adj.13085","DOIUrl":"10.1111/adj.13085","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8593,"journal":{"name":"Australian dental journal","volume":"70 3","pages":"197-198"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144688817","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}