Abstract
Patients' needs and preferences have long been one of the three essential elements of evidence-based dentistry. However, in most areas of dental research, the voices of dental patients have been overlooked, resulting in findings with limited value for dental practice and a high level of avoidable research waste. Previous studies have shown that the appropriate use of dental patient-reported outcomes (dPROs) is essential for dental research to fully reflect the impact of oral diseases or oral health care on patients and to directly support dentist-patient communication. Therefore, the Journal of Evidence-Based Dental Practice decided to put together this Special Issue, to further promote the wide use of dPROs and to provide novel insights into the measurement and analytical methods for dPROs. This article briefly introduces the manuscripts contained in this issue, which cover a wide range of topics: standardization of dPRO-related methodology; current usage of dPROs in published research; significance and relevance of dPROs usage; identification of dPROs in the evidence; as well as dPROs and value-based oral health care.
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