A customary change

摘要

"The old order changeth, yielding place to new, And God fulfils Himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world. Lord Alfred Tennyson "Morte D'Arthur" (1835) The order that 'changeth' has been in progress since 1982 when Edgar A Tonna, from the Institute of Dental Research at New York University became the first editor-in-chief of Gerodontology. His first editorial offered the comment that many of his colleagues 'both clinicians and basic scientists, have expressed the desire to see a journal devoted to the growing awareness of gerontologic problems associated with the tissues of the oral cavity'.