Hernández VRA, Romero ÁB, Urriolagoitia SG, Marquet RRA, Mastache MOA, Urriolagoitia CG

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The emergence of research in dentistry as a discipline independent of medicine and other areas of the Health Sciences field is relatively recent. Unfortunately, in our country only public institutions such as the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN), or the Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM) encourage scientific training. In most schools and faculties of dentistry in the country research is not the basis of professional training. In addition, the support received for conducting research in such institutions is limited and focused on certain areas of knowledge. This is simple to verify by counting the number of publications generated in the country in national and foreign indexed dental journals. One study found that between 1982 and 1996 only 650 articles by Mexican researchers were published in the area of Dentistry. Noteworthy, the vast majority of researchers included in these publications were not dentists, but physicians, chemists, engineers, among others.

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