It has been an exciting privilege for me to serve as Editor of the journal Community Dental Health for the last eight years. Volume 1, number 1 of this journal was published in March 1984 under the editorship of the late Professor Peter James of Birmingham. The journal developed from the newsletter/proceedings of the British Association of the Study of Community Dentistry (BASCD) under the editorship of Dr Frank Stewart and later Dr. Alan French. Prof.James was succeeded as Editor by Professor Martin Downer in 1993 and I was very proud to be appointed Editor in 2003 (Anderson, 1984; Gelbier, 2003) Over the last eight years a major development has been the introduction of the online journal as a result of which, a paper, on being accepted for publication, will be published online within a very short space of time. Also , at recent meetings of the Editorial Board and of BASCD and the European Association of Dental Public Health (EADPH) councils, a decision to proceed with an online reviewing system was taken.
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