With great pleasure: a prize for best scientific paper, and finding out what readers think.

The article highlights the best scientific paper published in the "Journal of Orthodontics." The paper "Decontamination of orthodontic bands following size determination and cleaning," by P. E. Benson, and C. W. I. Douglas bagged the Scientific Paper of the Year award. According to the author, papers were judged on their importance to orthodontics, their scientific quality, their presentation/readability and their potential to change practice.