Preface to the sixth edition

By the time this, the sixth edition of the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Dentistry reaches the shelves or the app on your smartphone it will have celebrated its 21st birthday. Now a mature adult it has, for the moment, declined to leave home and despite its experience and worldly wise nature has certain hankerings towards younger, simpler days. For this reason along with the usual extensive updates and rewrites we want to re-emphasize the interactive nature of this book by encouraging users of the print edition to personalize your copy using the blank ‘noteboxes’ where you create your version by augmenting or perhaps even correcting the content in light of your reading (and if you do, let us know the details for future editions, please don’t just make vague comments on an Internet review site) or more importantly your personal clinical experience.