Preface from the Editor‐in‐chief

In 1946, The Dental Journal of West China Union University was launched by Dr. Ashley Lindsay. Dr. Lindsay was the founder of the Dental School in West China Union University, which was also the first dental school in China, and the journal was the first dental and oral journal in the country. Although the journal was finally suspended after 8-years of publication of high-quality academic papers in both Chinese and English, the first dental hospital and dental school, now West China College of Stomatology of Sichuan University, which Dr. Lindsay and his colleagues devoted their lives to, has been providing services to the Chinese people and taught thousands of practitioners and scholars over the past century. Just celebrating its 100 anniversary in 2007, the college takes pride in being the leading educational and clinical base for dental, oral and maxillofacial sciences in China.