Editorial: On Witnessing Transitions in Maxillofacial Prosthodontics

Reading good journals makes us better health professionals. It pushes us to develop new perspectives and see clinical challenges in a different light. It inspires us to pursue excellent patient treatment with passion-achievable through this compact and portable resource that never crashes or needs rebooting. Our International Journal of Prosthodontics (IJP) is a knowledge device that comes without wires, electric circuits, or batteries; it is also convenient, durable, and affordable. It reaches out to the global prosthodontic community by sharing both researched ideas and provocatively articulated ones. It continues to deserve its readers' appreciation and support while featuring acknowledged leaders' appreciation for our discipline. This issue's guest editorial is by one of the IJP's long-serving and gifted Associate Editors, the International College of Prosthodontists current Co-President, Dr Rhonda F. Jacob. Her leadership in maxillofacial prosthodontics, as a consummate clinical scholar, has just been recognized with the Ackerman Award from the American Academy of Maxillofacial Prosthodontics. She recently retired into private practice following a stellar 30-year clinical academic career at the MD Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas.