Editorial

For the last ten years or more the term “evidence based dentistry” has become a familiar part of the vocabulary for most clinicians. There is a journal of Evidence-based Dentistry which effectively and usefully brings together published evidence and appropriate commentary of relevance to dental clinicians, and an oral health section in the Cochrane collaboration with a small but growing list of completed reviews. In a wider sense the term is used as an indicator of progressive and responsible clinical behaviour across all of medicine, and one to which clinical professionals should aspire. But, what does it really mean for prosthodontists and restorative dentists now, in 2005? Do we really practice EBD?