Editorial policy

DisforDentist distinguishes medical explanations, provider information and editorial recommendations. Medical explanations draw on identified public-health, professional or research sources. Provider details come from the practice's own information unless another source is stated. Recommendations connect those details to a reader's stated situation.

We name the source of a material claim and keep the conditions that make it accurate. A statement about a temporary restoration is not rewritten as a promise that all treatment finishes in one day. A reported treatment volume is not converted into a success rate. Illustrative calculations are identified as examples rather than observations.

Article dates represent the publication or a substantive update, not a cosmetic date change. A source-check date describes when information was examined. A clinical review date is reserved for an actual review by a named clinician. These dates have different meanings.

Clinical limitations that change a decision remain in the explanation. We do not invent patient experiences, reviews, qualifications, examination findings or laboratory results. A claim of specialist expertise requires a source identifying the person and qualification.

The publication does not use a government or professional source as an endorsement of a named clinic. Links to public medical information explain the relevant treatment or condition.

Errors are handled through the corrections policy. The comparison method explains how clinic recommendations are limited to the actual providers and criteria described in each article.