Editorial Policy

How the educational content on this site is written, sourced, and kept accurate.

Written for patient education

The articles on this site exist to explain endodontic care in plain language: what conditions mean, what treatments involve, and how common decisions are made. They are general education, not medical advice, and they are not written for any individual patient or tooth.

Sourced, not improvised

Clinical statements are drawn from patient resources published by the American Association of Endodontists (AAE) and from peer-reviewed studies in journals such as the Journal of Endodontics. Articles and service pages that rely on outside evidence carry a Sources section listing exactly what was used, with links where the source is public. If a claim cannot be tied to a source we have read, it does not go on the site.

Checked before publication

Before an article is published, its clinical claims are checked against the sources it cites, and its numbers are quoted from those sources rather than rounded into new ones. Each article shows its publication date and a last reviewed date, and those dates are updated when the content is reviewed again.

Corrections

If you spot an error, write to merrickendodontics@gmail.com with the page and the passage. Confirmed errors are corrected promptly, and the page's last reviewed date is updated.

What this site does not publish

No patient stories, testimonials, or reviews appear on this site, and no statistics are published without a cited source. The practice is in development, and nothing on this site should be read as a claim about care that has not happened yet.