Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral Radiology, and Endodontology. Parting thoughts.

摘要

This editorial signals the end of my tenure as editor-in-chief of Triple O. Our Journal has a long and proud history of connecting scientists and clinicians to readers seeking quality, contemporary, and relevant knowledge related to oral-maxillofacial surgery, pathology, and radiology, oral medicine, and endodontics. I have tried to preserve Triple O's legacy, while seeking ways to improve our publication, and writing hopefully thought-provoking editorials. I inherited a talented group of section editors, surgery section editorial board members, and peer reviewers. Over the years I added board members and recruited more reviewers to both provide greater depth and breath of expertise, and try to respect their busy lives by not calling on them too often. We have had turnover of section editors, but in all cases the quality of section leadership has been preserved. Triple O is extremely fortunate to have a strongly supportive and progressive publisher, Jane Ryley. Also, our issue manager, Jill Shepherd, is beyond compare as evidenced by extremely higher caliber copy editing and page set-up of our published articles. The best thing I did for Triple O was recruiting our managing editor, Carmen Hupp. She guided us through the momentous transition from a hard copy to an electronic submission, peer review, and editorial review process. She made the changes seamless and invisible to readers, who had no clue such a complex overhaul in journal procedures was occurring.