The Journal of Dental Research® (print ISSN: 0022-0345; online ISSN: 1544-0591) is published by the International & American Associations for Dental, Oral, and Craniofacial Research, and is dedicated to the dissemination of new knowledge and information on all sciences relevant to dentistry and to the oral cavity and associated structures in health and disease. The JDR publishes original research in all fields of dental, oral and craniofacial sciences.

Editor-in-Chief
Dr. William V. Giannobile	University of Michigan, USA
Associate Editors
Jack L. Ferracane	Oregon Health & Science University, USA
Gustavo P. Garlet	School of Dentistry of Bauru, Brazil
Dana T. Graves	University of Pennsylvania, USA
Nicholas Jakubovics	Newcastle University, UK
Jacques E. Nör	University of Michigan, USA
Joy Richman	University of British Columbia, Canada
Falk Schwendicke	Charite University, Germany
Editorial Board
Imad About	Aix-Marseille Université, France
Jacquelin Abranches	University of Florida, USA
Owen Addison	University of Birmingham, UK
Christina Adler	University of Sydney, Australia
Daniel Aeschlimann	University of Cardiff, UK
Tarcília Aparecida da Silva	Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Gustavo Avila-Ortiz	University of Iowa, USA
Avijit Banerjee	King's College London, UK
George Belibasakis	Karolinska Institute, Sweden
Tord Berglundh	Gothenburg University, Sweden
Luiz Bertassoni	Oregon Health & Science University, USA
Zhuan Bian	Wuhan University, China
Lars Bjørndal	University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Lorenzo Breschi	University of Trieste, Italy
Milena Cadenaro	University of Trieste, Italy
Guy Carpenter	King's College London, UK
Jaime Castellanos	Universidad El Bosque, Colombia
Paulo Cesar	University of São Paulo, Brazil
Lucia Cevidanes	University of Michigan, USA
Yang Chai	University of Southern California, USA
Vivianne Chappuis	University of Berne, Switzerland
Catherine Chaussain	University of Paris, France
Zhi Chen	Wuhan University, China
Jing Cheng	University of California San Francisco, USA
Youngnim Choi	Seoul National University, South Korea
Ana Paula Colombo	Institute of Microbiology Paulo de Góes, Brazil
Paul Cooper	University of Birmingham, UK
Mabel Cordeiro	Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
Eduardo Couve	Universidad de Valparaiso, Chile
Timothy Cox	University of Washington, USA
Francesco D'Aiuto	University College London, UK
Alvaro Della Bona	University of Passo Fundo, Brazil
Claudia Dellavia	University of Milan, Italy
Isabelle Denry	University of Iowa, USA
Jan Derks	Gothenburg University, Sweden
Patricia Diaz	University of Connecticut, USA
Tom Diekwisch	Baylor University, USA
Thomas Dietrich	University of Birmingham, UK
Anibal Diogenes	University of Texas-San Antonio
Luisa DiPietro	University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Kimon Divaris	University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Paul Eke	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA
Roberto Farina	University of Ferrara, Italy
Hailan Feng	Peking University, China
Jian (Jerry) Feng	Baylor University, USA
Christopher Fenno	University of Michigan, USA
Magda Feres	Guarulhos University, Brazil
Margherita Fontana	University of Michigan, USA
Brian Foster	Ohio State University, USA
Ashraf Fouad	University of Maryland, USA
Kerstin Galler	University of Regensburg, Germany
Michael Glogauer	University of Toronto, Canada
Siew-Ging Gong	University of Toronto, Canada
Jason Griggs	University of Mississippi, USA
Reinhard Gruber	University of Austria, Austria
George Hasjishengalis	University of Pennsylvania, USA
Kristiina Heikinheimo	University of Turku, Finland
Marcela Hernandez	University of Chile, Chile
Josefine Hirschfeld	University of Birmingham, UK
Matthew Hoffman	National Institutes of Health
Yael Houri-Haddad	Haddasah Medical Center, Israel
Wei Hsu	University of Rochester, USA
Hong-Keun Hyun	Seoul National University, South Korea
Saso Ivanoski	Griffith University, Australia
Lisa Jamieson	University of Adelaide, Australia
Keith Kirkwood	University at Buffalo, USA
Ophir Klein	University of California San Francisco, USA
Hyun Koo	University of Pennsylvania, USA
Maria Kukuruzinska	Boston University, USA
Marja Laine	ACTA Netherlands, Netherlands
Melinda Larsen	University of Albany, USA
Anh Le	University of Pennsylvania, USA
Jessica Lee	University of North Carolina, USA
Julian Leprince	University of Leuvan, Belgium
Kirsten Limesand	University of Arizona, USA
Yunfeng Lin	West China School of Stomatology, China
Stefan Listl	University of Heidelberg, Germany
Xiaohua Liu	Baylor University, USA
Edward Lo	University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Qing Xian Luan	Peking University, China
Kerstin Ludwig	University of Bonn, Germany
Mohd Masood	Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia
Jeffrey McLean	University of Washington, USA
Daniel McNeil	West Virginia University, USA
Mina Mina	University of Connecticut, USA
Lina Moreno-Uribe	The University of Iowa, USA
Niki Moutsopoulos	NIDCR, Bethesda
Paula Moynihan	University of Newcastle, UK
Frauke Müller	University of Geneva, Switzerland
Luigi Nibali	Eastman Dental Institute UCL, UK
Seog Bae Oh	Seoul National University, South Korea
Takahiro Ono	Osaka University, Japan
Panos Papapanou	Columbia University, USA
Waranuch Pitiphat	Faculty of Dentistry, Khon Kaen University
Vinicius Rosa	National University of Singapore, Singapore
Carlos Rossa Jr.	UNESP, Brazil
S. Esra Sahingur	Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
Irena Sailer	University of Zurich, Switzerland
Mariano Sanz	University Complutense of Madrid, Spain
Hajime Sasaki	University of Michigan, USA
Jun-Ichi Sasaki	Osaka University, Japan
Susanne Scherrer	University of Geneva, Switzerland
Abraham Schneider	University of Maryland, USA
Brian Schutte	Michigan State University, USA
Yang-jo Seol	Seoul National University, Korea
Lior Shapira	Hebrew University, Israel
Paul Sharpe	King's College London, UK
Brij Singh	University of North Dakota, USA
Walter Siqueira	University of Western Ontario, Canada
Dagmar Slot	ACTA Netherlands, Netherlands
Patricio Smith	Catholic University of Chile, Chile
Shogo Takashiba	Okayama University, Japan
Dennis Tarnow	Columbia University, USA
Flavia Teles	University of Pennsylvania, USA
Livia Tenuta	UNICAMP, Brazil
Sotirios Tetradis	University of California,USA
Thomas Thurnheer	University of Zurich, Switzerland
Leo Tjäderhane	University of Oulu, Finland
Leonardo Trombelli	University of Ferrara, Italy
Yu-Kang Tu	National Taiwan University
Abigail Tucker	King's College London, UK
Bart van Meerbeek	University of Leuven, Belgium
Ana Velly	McGill University, Canada
Sunil Wadhwa	New York University, USA
Cun-Yu Wang	University of California,USA
Richard Watt	University College London, UK
David Wong	University of California, USA
Monica Yamauti	Hokkaido University, Japan
Pamela Yelick	Tufts University, USA
Hiromasa Yoshie	Niigata University, Japan
Yu Zhang	New York University, USA
Publications Committee
Jack L. Ferracane (Chair)	Oregon Health & Science University, USA
Jukka Meurman	University of Helsinki, Finland and Helsinki University Hospital, Finland
Anna Dongari-Bagtzoglou (AADR Representative)	University of Connecticut, USA
Nisha D'Silva (AADR Representative)	University of Michigan, USA
Kimon Divaris	University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
David Kim (IADR Representative)	Harvard School for Dental Medicine, USA
Yun-Po Zhang (IADR Representative)	Colgate Palmolive, USA
Georgios N. Belibasakis	Karolinska Institute, Sweden
Jocelyne Feine (ex officio)	McGill University, Canada
William Giannobile (ex officio)	University of Michigan, USA
Gustavo Garlet (ex officio)	School of Dentistry of Bauru, Brazil
Dana Graves (ex officio)	University of Pennsylvania, USA
Nick Jakubovics (ex officio)	Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK
Effie Ioannidou (ex officio)	University of Connecticut, USA
Jacques E. Nör (ex officio)	University of Michigan, USA
Joy Richman (ex officio)	University of British Columbia, Canada
Falk Schwendicke	Charite University, Germany
Christopher H. Fox (ex officio)	International Association of Dental Research, USA