SAAD Digest

The SAAD Digest is the Journal of the Society for the Advancement of Anaesthesia in Dentistry and has been published regularly in London UK, since 1970. It has been produced in its current format since 2006, and copies of all editions produced since then are available below to view or download in PDF. From 2024 two editions were published each year, in March and September.

The Digest has become a unique and invaluable international forum for all interested in the advancement of knowledge in pain and anxiety control for dentistry.

The SAAD Digest (Journal of the Society for the Advancement of Anaesthesia in Dentistry) is dedicated to advancing the understanding of pain and anxiety control in dentistry through empirical, theoretical and critical inquiry. It provides a platform for the analysis and discussion of practices, methods, theories, technologies, pedagogies and histories relating to sedation.

The mission of the SAAD Digest is twofold: first, to become a leading journal for research relating to pain and anxiety management in dentistry. Second, to establish and develop pain and anxiety management in dentistry research in all regions of the world to achieve greater representation and increased global diversity.

We invite novel and rigorous articles that offer new insight or knowledge or contribute to the field by representing and developing new practices, methods, theories, histories and pedagogies. Such contributions may come in a variety of peer-reviewed formats.

We welcome research articles, reports of randomised controlled trials, articles derived from diploma dissertations, practice-related articles, education, professional opinion, case reports and general articles.

• Case reports should be of no more than 1,500 words
• Editorial, letters, short communications up to 1,500 words
• All other manuscripts should be of no more that 3,000 words.

Manuscripts should meet the following criteria: they should be original, clearly written, relevant to dentistry, reader-orientated (in other words written to appeal to the readership of any interested in pain and anxiety control in dentistry) and designed to inform, add to discussion or debate or entertain. Research papers should also have appropriate study methods, valid data and conclusions that are supported by the data.