Academic journals are essential for serving as a forum of knowledge sharing, thought provoking, and disseminating of innovation. It is also a platform providing for researchers to have their work published and archived. The mission of the Faculty of Dentistry, Mahidol University, is to gather educational resources relating to dentistry and provide access to the scientific community and those who are interested. Accordingly, Mahidol Dental Journal was established in 1985 and has been publishes triannually since then.