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Odontology, the international and official journal of The Society of The Nippon Dental University, provides new information at a high standard of quality in all disciplines involved in the field of dentistry and cra-niofacial research, including molecular studies related to oral health and disease. To maintain that high stan-dard, all submitted manuscripts are peer-reviewed by scientists or clinical experts in the forefront of dental research and in clinics worldwide. When a member of The Society of The Nippon Dental University is included as an author, the manuscript is evaluated by peer reviewers not belonging to the Society. Each manuscript should be complete, and the submission of preliminary or inconclusive results is discouraged.

Editor-in-Chief
Kazushi Imai, The Nippon Dental University at Tokyo, Japan
Deputy Editor
Yoshihide Satoh, The Nippon Dental University at Niigata, Japan
Managing Editor
Fumi Mizuhashi, The Nippon Dental University at Niigata, Japan
Editorial Staff
Hiroyuki Karibe, The Nippon Dental University at Tokyo, Japan
Tomonori Matsuno, The Nippon Dental University at Tokyo, Japan
Yasuo Okada, The Nippon Dental University at Niigata, Japan
Yuichi Soeno, The Nippon Dental University at Tokyo, Japan
Associate Editor
Yasumasa Akagawa, Hiroshima University, Japan
Astrid D. Bakker, ACTA, The Netherlands
Raul G. Caffesse, Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Mexico
Yu-Chao Chang, Chung Shan Medical University, Taiwan
Luciano Cintra, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Brazil
William A. Cole, University of the Pacific Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry, USA
Albert J. Feilzer, ACTA, The Netherlands
J. Christopher Fenno, University of Michigan, USA
Jack L. Ferracane, Oregon Health & Sciences University, USA
Bernhard Ganss, University of Toronto, Canada
Michael Glick, Arizona School of Dentistry & Oral Health, USA
James Huff, NIEHS (NIH), USA
Shigemi Ishikawa-Nagai, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, USA
Shin-ichi Iwasaki, Hokuriku University, Japan
John A. Jansen, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Lysle E. Johnston Jr., University of Michigan, USA
Mo K. Kang, UCLA, USA
Jiro Kato, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NIH), USA
Hiroaki Katsuragi, The Nippon Dental University at Niigata, Japan
Tomoyuki Kawase, Niigata University
Reuben Kim, UCLA, USA
Akira Komori, The Nippon Dental University at Tokyo, Japan
Kiyoshi Konishi, Osaka University, Japan
Kiyoshi Koyano, Kyushu University, Japan
Bastiaan P. Krom, ACTA, The Netherlands
Tohru Kurabayashi, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan
Daniel M. Laskin, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
Birte Melsen, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Taka Nakahara, The Nippon Dental University at Tokyo, Japan
Carl Erik Nord, Huddinge University Hospital, Sweden
Asher Ornoy, Hebrew University Hadassah, Israel
Mutlu Özcan, University of Zürich, Switzerland
Sandro Palla, University of Zürich, Switzerland
Ke Ren, University of Maryland, USA
Georgios Romanos, SUNY at Stony Brook, USA
Edgar Schäfer, University of Münster, Germany
Anne Aamdal Scheie, University of Oslo, Norway
Gottfried Schmalz, University of Regensburg, Germany
Hiroshi Shiga, The Nippon Dental University at Tokyo, Japan
Koichi Shinkai, The Nippon Dental University at Niigata, Japan
Charles F. Shuler, University of British Columbia, Canada
Philip Stashenko, Forsyth Institute, USA
Naoyuki Takahashi, Matsumoto Dental University, Japan
Takashi Takata, Hiroshima University, Japan
Makoto Tsuchimochi, The Nippon Dental University at Niigata, Japan
Takeki Tsutsui, The Nippon Dental University at Tokyo, Japan
Enno C. Veerman, ACTA, The Netherlands
Sunil Wadhwa, Columbia University, USA
Yoshiaki Yamada, Tokyo Dental College Junior College, Japan
Akira Yamaguchi, Tokyo Dental College, Japan 
Statistics Editor
Nora Donaldson, Stony Brook University, USA