Two weeks ago we had the real red letter day in the practice of the submission of our first manuscript for publication for a research project that’s been running in the practice for almost three years, showing how pre-treatment implant maintenance impacts on the survival and success of implants.
Now we have some really rock solid figures on this from a dental practice in the UK to show how important this is and to allow you the opportunity to show it to your patients when you’re explaining to them why it’s essential that they have high quality hygiene treatment prior to implant surgery. I know that everybody thought they knew this but nobody ever showed it from practice, not in the UK in any event. So the manuscript was submitted to the Journal of Perio and it took them last than two weeks to throw it back.
I suspect it’s just not ‘high impact’ enough for such a lofty journal and it was worth a try I think but in the end was really destined to failure. It will get published somewhere, we’ll just have to pick a better avenue and start to work a relationship in that direction. This though is where a lot of stuff stops isn’t it? We know how good it is (or we think we know how good it is) but when looked at objectively by someone in an office in another country it’s not quite as impressive as we might think. We are very proud of it but why should anyone else be proud of it? It’s just another piece of research from another dental practice in the world.
And so this is how change is made – drip, drip, drop, drop, pick yourself up, dust yourself off and try again. A ten-year project is a long project and we’ve only just started.
Blog Post Number - 1272