Dental Update publishes a range of articles including reviews, case reports, commentaries, letters to the editor and commissioned articles. In addition, occasional guest editorials address contemporary subjects of interest, be these clinical or relevant to the process of dental practice.

Previous editors have included Dr Ted Renson who in 1978 went on to become Professor of Conservative Dentistry at The University of Hong Kong and one of the Founders of the Prince Philip Dental Hospital in Hong Kong. The most recent Editorial Director is Professor Trevor Burke, University of Birmingham, who took on the role in 1996 and has overseen the journal’s international expansion and success.

The journal was recently described by Sir Nairn Wilson, past Dental Dean of Kings College London, as a “jewel in the crown of Dental Publications”.