The quarterly ORTHODONTIC FORUM is published in the Polish and English languages and includes original articles related to orthodontics, interviews, book reviews, opinions, abstracts and orthodontic community news.

CATEGORIES OF ARTICLES. Accepted papers are published in the following journal sections:

• Clinical research

• Epidemiology

• Case Reports

• Diagnostics and Orthodontic Technology - including orthodontic diagnostics, imaging systems, computer simulation of growth or treatment effects, new appliances or devices

• Reviews. Meta-analyses are considered review

• Letters to the Editor (are considered a form of original papers)

Number of issues: 4 issues per year.

The articles in this journal are published open access (OA)

Copyright: © Polish Orthodontic Society. This is an Open Access journal, all articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/), allowing third parties to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and to remix, transform, and build upon the material, provided the original work is properly cited and states its license.

The rights to the article are usually transferred by the authors to the owner of the journal, who makes it available under the Creative Commons license. However, if the author does not want to transfer the copyright to the publisher, he/she may contact the editorial office and set separate rules - under which the editorial office may publish an article in the journal. For the detailed information, please contact with editorial office.

Editor-in-Chief:

Prof. dr hab. n.med. Małgorzata Zadurska

Deputy Editor

Marta Metaxas

e-mail: sekretariat@pto.info.pl

Honorary Editor:

Prof. dr hab. n.med. Anna Komorowska

Publisher:

Polskie Towarzystwo Ortodontyczne

(Polish Orthodontic Society)

Secretary:

mgr Adam Bartoś

e-mail: biuro@forumortodontyczne.pl

mobile +48 785 773 695

Editor address:

M. Kasprzaka 31/120

01-234 Warsaw

e-mail: biuro@forumortodontyczne.pl

Section Editors

Orthodontics for growing patients
dr n.med. Konrad Perkowski

Adult orthodontics
dr hab.n. med. Ewa Czochrowska

Orthodontic materials and techniques
dr hab.n. med. Konrad Małkiewicz

Legal aspects in orthodontics
dr n. med. Beata Walawska

Polish language editor

mgr Teresa Maciszewska

English language editor

mgr Krystyna Sachmacińska

Statistical editor

dr hab. n. roln. Dariusz Gozdowski