Original research findings, literature reviews, laboratory studies, methodological studies, epidemiological research, and original case reports that have not been previously published and have not been submitted for publication in another journal are eligible for evaluation in the journal, provided that they comply with the following guidelines. Articles submitted for publication in the journal are not subject to any fees. The articles published do not generate royalty payments for the authors. DergiPark is the platform through which manuscripts are processed for submission. 

• In order to be taken into account during the evaluation process, research articles must include a declaration of approval from the appropriate ethics committee. Informed consent must be documented for human participants in research. It is important to acknowledge that the research methods used in animal-based experimental investigations were approved by the appropriate animal ethics supervision committee. The Materials and Methods section should include the following: the name of the ethics committee, the date of the committee's meeting, and the approval number. Additionally, patient consent information should be included. Authors may be requested to provide ethics approval documentation if required.

• The journal has the option of publishing in either Turkish or English. Abstracts must be composed in both Turkish and English. 

• If the editorial board considers it appropriate, articles that adhere to the journal's submission guidelines and are consistent with its aims and scope will be submitted for peer review. The author(s) are responsible for the legal and scientific content of the papers that have been submitted.
• Use the iThenticate (Academic Plagiarism Prevention) program to verify the similarity of all manuscripts submitted to our journal and upload the results to the system. During the interim review process, manuscripts with a similarity rate exceeding 20% (excluding the abstract, bibliography, in-text citations, proper names, and definitions by national/international organizations) will be returned to the corresponding author.
• Articles that are submitted must be formatted in Microsoft Word with a 1.5-line spacing and a 12-point "Times New Roman" font.
• All sides must have a margin of 2.5 cm.
• The first page should contain the Turkish and English titles (with capital letters for the initial letter of each word, excluding conjunctions), the name of the corresponding author, all authors' first and last names, institutional affiliation, email information, and ORCID numbers.
• The abstract should not exceed 300 words. The Turkish and English abstracts must be identical and must contain the following sections: Aim, Method, Results, Results, and Conclusion.
• Keywords should be chosen in the Turkish and English languages with a minimum of three and a maximum of seven. Turkish keywords must comply with the "Türkiye Bilim Terimleri" database (http://www.bilimterimleri.com), while English keywords must adhere to the "Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)" standards.
• The main text should be limited to the following word counts: 4000 words for research articles, 5000 words for reviews, 2000 words for case reports, and 1000 words for letters to the editor. It should also include the following sections: Introduction, Method, Results, Discussion, and Conclusion.
• Tables, figures, and charts should be incorporated into the text rather than being sent as distinct files.
• The funding information and acknowledgments should be included at the conclusion of the primary text if an article that has been submitted for publication has been previously presented at a conference or have received budget support.
• Vancouver style must be used for references. The reference numbers should be numbered in the text in the order of their initial occurrence, with the reference number indicated in regular parentheses. The reference list should be provided at the end of the text. If more than two consecutive reference numbers are listed, a hyphen (-) should be inserted between the first and last number of the series. When citing multiple references, please separate the reference numbers with commas. For example, instead of (2,3,4,5,13,15), write (2-5,13,15). Reference numbers should be included at the conclusion of sentences, such as:

        - Individuals with poor dietary habits.................. (8,10).

• When citing from books:
• Author’s Last Name and Initial(s) of First Name. Title: Subtitle. Edition. Place of Publication: Publisher; Year.
Single author/editor:
    - Mason J. Concepts in dental public health. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2005.
    - Ireland R, editor. Clinical textbook of dental hygiene and therapy. Oxford: Blackwell Munksgaard; 2006.
• Two to six authors/editors:
    - Miles DA, Van Dis ML, Williamson GF, Jensen CW. Radiographic imaging for the dental team. 4th ed. St. Louis: Saunders Elsevier; 2009.
    - Dionne RA, Phero JC, Becker DE, editors. Management of pain and anxiety in the dental office. Philadelphia: WB Saunders; 2002.
• More than six authors/editors:
    - Fauci AS, Braunwald E, Kasper DL, Hauser SL, Longo DL, Jameson JL, et al., editors. Harrison’s principles of internal medicine. 17th ed. New York: McGraw Hill; 2008.
• When the author is an institution:
    - Canadian Dental Hygienists Association. Dental hygiene: definition and scope. Ottawa: Canadian Dental Hygienists Association; 1995.
• When there is no author/editor:
    - Scott’s Canadian dental directory 2008. 9th ed. Toronto: Scott’s Directories; 2007.
• Official document:
    - Canada. Environmental Health Directorate. Radiation protection in dentistry: recommended safety procedures for the use of dental x-ray equipment. Safety Code 30. Ottawa: Ministry of Health; 2000.
• Book chapter:
    - Alexander RG. Considerations in creating a beautiful smile. In: Romano R, editor. The art of the smile. London: Quintessence Publishing; 2005. p. 187-210.
• E-book:
    - Irfan A. Protocols for predictable aesthetic dental restorations [Internet]. Oxford: Blackwell Munksgaard; 2006 [cited 2009 May 21]. Available from Netlibrary:            http://cclsw2.vcc.ca:2048/login?url=http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=181691

• When citing from articles:
Author’s Last Name and Initial(s). Article title. Journal name (abbreviated). Publication date: Volume, Issue (Number): Page numbers.
If the abbreviated journal name is not provided in the article, the PubMed database (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=journals) may be used to determine the correct abbreviation.
• Printed article:
    - Haas AN, de Castro GD, Moreno T, Susin C, Albandar JM, Oppermann RV, et al. Azithromycin as an adjunctive treatment of aggressive periodontitis: 12-months     randomized clinical trial. J Clin Periodontol. 2008 Aug;35(8):696-704.
    - Uzun D, Kara H, Doğan MF, Arslan SO. The Antibiotic Prescribing Behaviors of Physicians Are Changed Via Rapid Antigen Test Practice in the Context of Rational Drug     Use. Turk J Med Sci. 2020 Feb 25. doi: 10.3906/sag-1908-164.
• Article retrieved from the Internet:
    - Tasdemir T, Yesilyurt C, Ceyhanli KT, Celik D, Er K. Evaluation of apical filling after root canal filling by 2 different techniques. J Can Dent Assoc [Internet]. 2009 Apr [cited     2009 Jun 14];75(3):[about 5pp.]. Available from: http://www.cda-adc.ca/jcda/vol-75/issue-3/201.html
• Article retrieved from an online database:
    - Erasmus S, Luiters S, Brijlal P. Oral hygiene and dental student’s knowledge, attitude and behaviour in managing HIV/AIDS patients. Int J Dent Hyg [Internet]. 2005 Nov     [cited 2009 Jun 16];3(4):213-7. Available from Medline: http://cclsw2.vcc.ca:2048/login url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=cmedm&AN=16451310&site=ehost-live
    - Monajem S. Integration of oral health into primary health care: the role of dental hygienists and the WHO stewardship. Int J Dent Hyg [Internet]. 2006 Feb [cited 2009     Jun 21];4(1):47-52. Available from CINAHL with Full Text: http://tinyurl.com/kudbxw
• When citing from the Internet:
• If there is an author:
    - Fehrenbach MJ. Dental hygiene education [Internet]. [Place unknown]: Fehrenbach and Associates; 2000 [updated 2009 May 2; cited 2009 Jun 15]. Available from: http://www.dhed.net/Main.html
• If there is no author:
    - American Dental Hygienists’ Association [Internet]. Chicago: American Dental Hygienists’ Association; 2009 [cited 2009 May 30]. Available from: http://www.adha.org/
• Section/Article from a website:
    - Medline Plus [Internet]. Bethesda (MD): U.S. National Library of Medicine; c2009. Dental health; 2009 May 06 [cited 2009 Jun 16]; [about 7 screens]. Available from:     http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/dentalhealth.html
• Blog:
    - Skariah H. The tooth booth dental blog [Internet]. Mississauga (ON): Hans Skariah; 2004 - [cited 2009 Jun 20]. Available from: http://dentaldude.blogspot.com/
    - Skariah H. The tooth booth dental blog [Internet]. Mississauga (ON): Hans Skariah; 2004 -. Dental did you know: breastfeeding duration and non-nutritive sucking     habits; 2009 May 18 [cited 2009 Jun 20]; [about 1 screen]. Available from: http://dentaldude.blogspot.com/2009/05/dental-did-you-know-breastfeeding.html
• Image from the Internet:
    - McCourtie SD, World Bank. SDM-LK-179 [image on the Internet]. 2009 Apr 29 [cited 2009 Jun 14]. Available from:     http://www.flickr.com/photos/worldbank/3486672699/

Submissions to the journal should comply with the following regulations, as advised by our statistical editors. These regulations will apply to the assessment of your research studies.

• Include "Sample Size and Power:" at the end of the Methods section, under the heading "Statistical Analyses," along with a detailed explanation of the sample size calculation.
• The Methods section should contain the results of the sample size calculation for both the primary and secondary analyses. The sample size report must contain the primary variable, the statistical test employed, the effect size value, and the method used to calculate the effect size.
• The selection of the sample should be explicitly described in the Methods section.
• References that establish the validity and reliability of the scale in both the original and native language samples must be included if it is employed in the study. Additionally, it is imperative to provide a clear statement—or an appropriate source—about the "number of items on the scale, the response categories for the items and how they are coded, which items are reverse coded if applicable, which items belong to which dimensions, how the scale score is calculated, the minimum and maximum scores attained from the scale, and what an increase or decrease in the scale score signifies."

In the Statistical Analyses section:

• The software version and license that were employed in the statistical analyses must be specified.
• The information should include the process by which the necessary assumptions for the evaluations were assessed. (E.g., the Shapiro-Wilk test was employed to evaluate normality, and the Levene test was employed to investigate variance homogeneity.)

• The following abbreviations should be used for presenting descriptive statistics:

  Frequency/number (percentage): n (%)
  Mean and standard deviation: Mean±SD
  Median (interquartile range): Median (IQR)
  Median (Q1–Q3): Median (Q1–Q3)
  Minimum and maximum: min; max

• When parametric methods are used, “Mean±SD” must be provided, and when non-parametric methods are used, descriptive statistics such as “mean rank, median (IQR) or median (Q1–Q3)” must be included.
[Both mean and median values may be provided together; however, the descriptive statistic specified above must always be included according to the method.]
• The method used for error control in multiple comparisons must be stated.

In the Results, Tables, and Figures:

• Statistical analyses must include full p-values. The notations "p<0.05" and "p>0.05" should not be employed. Specifically, the results should be reported as "<0.001" and ">0.999" if the p-value is "0.000…" or "1.000." p-values should be expressed with three decimal places (e.g., p=0.342).
• A note below the table must provide an explanation of the abbreviations used in the table, explicitly indicating the test result.
• In figures that display percentage graphs, the y-axis must be between 0 and 100. If the graphs are drawn on various scales, this must be clearly indicated in a note below the graph.
• The sum of the percentages corresponding to the frequencies in the distributions must equal 100% (i.e., it should not be 0.99 or 100.1).