Editor’s note
We thank Dr. Yeager for his letter and appreciate his concerns. For the record, JADA uses several groups of experts—associate editors, the editorial advisory board, outside reviewers and the Industry Advisory Board—to help identify areas of interest to Journal readers. Regardless of the source of a manuscript—university, government, industry or clinician—the criteria for publication are the same. The Industry Advisory Board was set up to alert the editor of trends and for possible publication in JADA, not to make final publication decisions. The profession is crying out for data that underlie new procedures, drugs and devices. Only by seeing information from all sources can JADA help the clinician make informed decisions.
