The Restorative Dentistry and Endodontics (officially abbreviated as Restor Dent Endod; RDE) is a peer-reviewed and open access journal providing up-to-date information regarding the research and developments on new knowledge and innovations pertinent to the field of contemporary clinical operative dentistry, restorative dentistry, and endodontics. In the field of operative and restorative dentistry, the journal deals with diagnosis, treatment planning, treatment concepts and techniques, adhesive dentistry, esthetic dentistry, tooth whitening, dental materials and implant restoration. In the field of endodontics, the journal deals with a variety of topics such as etiology of periapical lesions, outcome of endodontic treatment, surgical endodontics including replantation, transplantation and implantation, dental trauma, intracanal microbiology, endodontic materials (MTA, nickel-titanium instruments, etc.), molecular biology techniques, and stem cell biology. RDE publishes original articles, review articles and case reports dealing with aforementioned topics from all over the world.
RDE is indexed/tracked/covered by Web of Science-Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Scoups, PubMed, PubMed Central, EBSCO, KoreaMed, Synapse, KCI, Crossref, DOAJ, and Google Scholar.

History

RDE (eISSN 2234-7666) is the official journal of the Korean Academy of Conservative Dentistry and was renamed from the Journal of Korean Academy of Conservative Dentistry (pISSN 1225-0864; eISSN 2093-8179), which was first published in 1975. It was initially published once a year but became a biannual journal in 1986, a quarterly journal in 1999, and then a bimonthly journal in 2001. From 2012, the journal name was renamed, the official language of the journal was changed to English, and it is currently published quarterly. This journal is supported in part by a Grant from the Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies funded by the Korean Government (MEST).