South European Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Research: A new hope

Sa？etak Welcome to South European Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Research. Today, orthodontics is different. In the last twenty years technology has posed new challenges not only for orthodontics but for all fields of dental medicine, and science in general. Technological progress is also creating new opportunities in research with new study designs and new questions, opening space for re-evaluating present paradigms and creating new ideas in perceiving basics of orthodontic, pedodontic and TMJ science in the light of human variation. Orthodontics is becoming more integrated with other dental sciences and clinical concepts but even more in basic research. The increasing growth of human genetics and oral biology is opening the space for new therapeutically approaches but also disperse results of basic research in different specialised journals. New advantages and findings in oral epidemiology, public dental and oral health, legal medicine and forensics, biology with genetics and epigenetics, dental and craniofacial anthropology, maxillofacial radiology and TMJ science are closely related to the fields of orthodontics and paediatric dentistry, and have important influence in forming new perceptions in therapeutic procedures. At the same time, southern Europe is a fast developing scientific area with more than 300 million inhabitants and thousands of scientists from the fields of Journal’s scope. This strong scientific pool is dispersed across more than 15 countries with different educational and scientific policies and complex inter-population relationships. This is why we decided to establish a new regional orthodontic journal with the broad array of outstanding interdisciplinary content, encompassing orthodontics, paediatric dentistry, TMJ science, 3D diagnostics, cranial and dental morphometrics, craniofacial and dental anthropology, oral biology and oral public health and epidemiology. It is important to inform future readers and contributors about the mission and the basic concepts of the Journal. South European Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Research (SEJODR) is a flagship journal of the Croatian Society of Orthodontics as well as journal of Orthodontic Society of Dental Association of Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatian Society for Paediatric and Preventive Dentistry. A number of orthodontic, pedodontic and other societies from southern Europe supported the Journal and the standards and ideas it promotes. With the Society pages online, we are open to international inter-Society communication and presentation of