Begonias

In the background of the coronavirus pandemic, which puts little other than life and death into perspective, it is not easy to see beyond the current crisis. Dentists in the UK, and many worldwide, are facing financial and clinical difficulties which could never have been foreseen. In that regard, dentists in much of the rest of the world seem to be managing to run their dental surgeries without the untested demands that we see in the UK.

In recent issues, Dental Update has brought readers many articles on COVID-19 and its implications for the dental team and their patients. However, there will be a time when dentists and their patients will again worry about how long the restorations placed in their teeth will last, rather than worrying about the implications of COVID-19 on their treatment. Dental Update will therefore plan largely to return to its raison d’etre of bringing high quality, well-illustrated articles of relevance to general dentistry and publishing fewer articles solely related to COVID-19, albeit with the rider that, should we receive an important COVID-related paper, it will be published, and we will continue to publish Professor Samaranayake's most useful COVID-19 Commentary for as long as he considers it relevant.