The New Zealand Dental Journal (NZDJ) is the scientific publication of the New Zealand Dental Association.

The New Zealand Dental Journal publishes open access peer-reviewed original research and review articles. Accepted articles span the full extent of issues relating to dentistry and oral health. We seek to advance knowledge of matters relating to oral health in the interests of the public good.

In this section you can view peer-reviewed articles contained within past issues of the New Zealand Dental Journal.

The Journal has been continually published since 1905. Issues are published quarterly in:

• March
• June
• September
• December

Editor:
Jonathan Broadbent PhD
University of Otago
Email: [email protected]

Associate Editors:
Sunyoung Ma PhD
University of Otago

KC Li PhD
University of Otago

Richard Holmes PhD
Newcastle University, UK

Editorial Advisory Board:
Paul Abbot DDSc
University of Western Australia

Nick Chandler PhD
University of Otago

Bun San Chong PhD
Queen Mary University of London

Erin Mahoney PhD
Te Whatu Ora | Health New Zealand

Leenu Maimanuku BDS
Fiji National University

Susan Moffat PhD
University of Otago

W Murray Thomson PhD
University of Otago

Sobia Zafar PhD
University of Queensland

Editorial Assistant:
James Smith PhD
University of Otago

Advertising Manager:
Julia Smith
New Zealand Dental Association
Email: [email protected]

Subscriptions:
Jill Watson
New Zealand Dental Association
Email: [email protected]

Copyright:

The New Zealand Dental Journal© by the New Zealand Dental Association is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Authors submitting work to the New Zealand Dental Journal (NZDJ) retain the rights to that work until publication. On acceptance you are asked to complete a copyright transfer agreement to the New Zealand Dental Association (NZDA). Manuscripts that appear in the New Zealand Dental Journal are published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. It is free to publish with the NZDJ, and content from the NZDJ is free to copy or share, but shared content must be attributed to the authors, acknowledge NZDA/NZDJ as the publisher, and may not be modified or used commercially. Online sharing of journal content should link back to the original publication source on the NZDA website, rather than republishing digital copies of journal content on other websites.

Published quarterly by:
The New Zealand Dental Association

Typeset & Printed by:
Caxton
Christchurch

New Zealand Dental Association:
NZDA House, 1/195 Main Highway, Ellerslie, Auckland 1051
PO Box 28084, Remuera, Auckland 1541, New Zealand
Tel: +64 9 579 8001
Email: [email protected]
Web: nzda.org.nz

ISSN 0028-8047 (Print)
ISSN 2744-6638 (Online)

The publication of an advertisement is not to be construed as an endorsement or approval by the NZDA or any of its subsidiaries unless the advertisement specifically includes an NZDA-authorised statement that such endorsement or approval has been granted.