Corrections Policy

This site aims to be accurate, and takes correcting errors seriously when they're identified.

How to report an error

If you notice a factual error, an outdated statement, or anything that seems clinically incorrect in an article, you can report it through the Contact page once a monitored channel is available there. Including the article's title and URL, and a short description of what seems wrong, helps corrections get handled faster.

How corrections are evaluated

Reported issues are reviewed against the source material and general dental knowledge to confirm whether a correction is warranted. Not every disagreement is an error. Where a statement is genuinely outdated, inaccurate, or unclear, the article is updated.

Minor versus substantive changes

Small fixes, such as correcting a typo or clarifying a sentence without changing its meaning, are made without special notation. Substantive changes, meaning anything that changes what an article claims or recommends, are noted with an updated date on the article itself.

How updated dates are used

Where an article has been substantively revised after its original publication date, the article reflects an updated date so readers can tell the content has changed since it was first published.

Commitment to transparency

This site does not quietly rewrite articles to hide that a substantive correction was made. If a meaningful claim in an article turns out to be wrong, the fix is made and reflected honestly through the article's updated date, not hidden.