Editor-in-Chief
Rosemary Sadami Arai Shinkai, PUCRS, BrazilAssociate Editors
Altair Antoninha Del Bel Cury, FOP/UNICAMP, BrazilJosé Antonio Poli de Figueiredo, PUCRS, Brazil
Saul Martins Paiva, UFMG, Brazil
Editorial Advisory Board
Eraldo Luiz Batista, PUCRS, BrazilLea Assed Bezerra da Silva, FORP/USP, Brazil
Arnaldo de França Caldas Jr, UPE, Brazil
Maria Martha Campos, PUCRS, Brazil
Raphael Freitas de Souza, FORP/USP, Brazil
Alvaro Della Bona, UPF, Brazil
Flavio F Demarco, UFPel, Brazil
Carlos de Paula Eduardo, USP/SP, Brazil
Roseana de Almeida Freitas, UFRN, Brazil
Marcelo Giannini, FOP/UNICAMP, Brazil
Ricardo Santiago Gomez, UFMG, Brazil
Luciana Mayumi Hirakata, PUCRS, Brazil
Adriano Mota Loyola, UFU, Brazil
Elismauro Francisco de Mendonça, UFG, Brazil
Leão Pereira Pinto, UFRN, Brazil
Alessandra Reis, UEPG, Brazil
Rodney Garcia Rocha, USP/SP, Brazil
Renata Cunha Matheus Rodrigues Garcia, FOP/UNICAMP, Brazil
Mônica Campos Serra, FORP/ USP, Brazil
Manoel D. Sousa-Neto, FORP/USP, Brazil
Cínthia Pereira Machado Tabchoury, FOP/UNICAMP, Brazil
Márcia Carneiro Valera, UNESP/SJC, Brazil
Fernando Henrique Westphalen, PUCPR, UFPR, Brazil
International Advisory Board
Ana Maria Acevedo, Central University of Venezuela, VenezuelaMasatoshi Ando, Indiana University, United States
Kenzo Asaoka, The University of Tokushima, Japan
Silvana Pereira Barros, University of North Carolina, United States
André Ricardo Correia, Faculdade de Medicina Dentária da Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Nikolaos Donos, UCL Eastman Dental Institute, United Kingdom
Paul Dummer, Cardiff University, United Kingdom
Andrea Goncalves Ferreira Zandona, Indiana University, United States
Carlos Gonzalez-Cabezas, Indiana University, United States
Anderson T Hara, Indiana University School of Dentistry, United States
John Phillip Hatch, University of Texas - UTHSCSA, United States
Reinhilde Jacobs, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
Ibrahim Alpdogan Kantarci, Boston University, United States
Jonathan Campbell Knowles, University College London, United Kingdom
Hyun Koo, University of Rochester Medical Center, United States
Herenia P Lawrence, University of Toronto, Canada
Nikolaos Mardas, UCL Eastman Dental Institute, United Kingdom
Jacques Eduardo Nör, University of Michigan, United States
Stephen Porter, UCL Eastman Dental Institute, United Kingdom
Andre V. Ritter, University of North Carolina, United States
Barry John Sessle, University of Toronto, Canada
Howard Tenenbaum, University of Toronto, Canada
Thomas Van Dyke, Boston University, United States
Kiyomi Yamazaki, University of Southern California, United States
Ismael Henry Yevenes, Universidad de Chile, Chile
Ken'ichi Yokoyama, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
Administrative Assistant
Felipe MonterossoLibrary Assistant
Isabel Merlo CrespoDébora Kraemer de Araujo, PUCRS
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