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Oral and maxillofacial surgery (OMS) and its training systems continue to evolve around the globe.1 Review of Kumar emphasized that a wide diversity of dental/stomatology/medical background requirements and training pathways exist across the states that lead to a degree in OMS.1 Nevertheless, to our knowledge the issue of OMS education in Ukraine is not highlighted in the English-language literature. Moreover, the relevance of coverage of this issue has increased this month. As on April 23, 2021 a more than a historical order for the whole oral and maxillofacial community in Ukraine was approved.2 Order #799 of the Ministry of Healthcare of Ukraine “On Approval of Amendments to the Handbook of Qualification Characteristics of Workers' Professions.2 Issue 78 “Healthcare”.” This much-needed ministerial document orders to add a new “Maxillofacial Surgeon Doctor” (MFSD) position to the Section “Professionals in the Field of Stomatology.”2

In South Korea, two peer-reviewed journals related to the field of oral and maxillofacial surgery (OMS) [1-3]: 1) Journal of the Korean Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons for 43 years; 2) Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery are already existing for 40 years. Both have a long time traditions of publishing and editorial process of peer-review articles. And both journals have undergone the process of changing the language of publications – transition from the official state language to English. The purpose of that analytic paper is to highlight that transition, as each of the journals has a different type of language transition. The transitions` impact on OMS residency programs is also discussed.

After almost 5 years of publishing (from February 2017) of the Journal of Diagnostics and Treatment of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology (JDTOMP) in both forms (print and digital), we are happy to announce the paradigm shift in the life of our beloved publication. The Editorial Board made the decision to move the Journal to a digital-only publication format from January 2022. In recent years, many prestigious international peer-reviewed journals with a long history of publishing and a strong Impact Factor already made or are ferociously making such transition to digital-only format (Table 1).1–4

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Coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19)2 pandemic led to the severe restrictions around the globe due the extremely rapid spread of the virus and total death number 21,297 people on March 26.3 Quarantine measures of the Ukrainian Government became very similar to actions of the other countries. One of which, a closed educational institutions from March 12,4 created a need to continue education virtually using cutting-edge technologies such as Google Classroom and Google Meet.Google Classroom, a free web service, was released by the Google LLC in August 2014. “Classroom was created hand-in-hand with teachers to help organize day-to-day tasks, communication, and foster greater collaboration,” this is how Google describes the purpose of Classroom`s creation.5 Year by year evolution of the Classroom gave its users in 2020 a wide range of tools: Simultaneous usage with Google Docs, Gmail, Google Drive, Sheets and Slides, and even Google Calendar. A special training course for professors of our university facilitated the effective usage of the Classroom during the quarantine period implementing the e-learning at our Department. A 256 page book “Teaching with Google Classroom,” written by Michael Zhang, a certified trainer for Google Apps for Education, gave a deep look on all possibilities of this global e-learning service.6 Google Classroom was also launched as a smartphone application in January 2015. Despite of some limitations, at the mobiles we can: 1) create or join a class, 2) make announcements and post comments to assignments, 3) send e-mails to students, 4) access your class’s Google Drive, 5) view whether the students have completed assignments or not, 6) reset or disable your class code.7 Thus, using all potential of such e-learning services, as Google Classroom, we can effectively deal with a “physical learning” crisis, allowing the students at “surgical dentistry” and “pediatric surgical dentistry” classes to avoid the risk for their lives and to master the curriculum during the pandemic when the timeline is made only by the virus.

We are happy to continue adopting the best global publishing experience and traditions into the new year of 2022. To start off, we are honored to adopt the progressive tradition held by Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (PRS) journal. As a phenomenal journal with more than 75 years of publishing developments, PRS serves as a trailblazer for the Journal of Diagnostics and Treatment of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology. The PRS Editorial Board founded the Resident Ambassador position in 2014 after an unofficial Resident Advisory Board (RAB) meeting of four residents at the 2013 Annual Meeting.2 And now after 7 years, the PRS and PRS Global RAB includes more than 70 members across the world with six PRS and PRS Global Open Resident Ambassadors.2 The RAB serves both PRS and their daughter journal – Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Global Open (PRS Global Open). The key missions for the members of the RAB are to participate in three of five activities: (1) the PRS journal club on Facebook, (2) the PRS Grand Rounds (a multipronged and multitopic live lectures with question-and-answer series)2 via Facebook, (3) creation of PRS promoting videos on their own social media pages, (4) supporting PRS and PRS Global Open as a peer-reviewers, and (5) voting on the journal’s social media pages. The search for a true leader to take on the role as the Founding Resident Ambassador for the Journal of Diagnostics and Treatment of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology was an uneasy task. After an extensive search, we are honored to start a collaboration with an oral and maxillofacial surgery (OMS) resident from the state of Alabama in the United States of America. John M. Le, DDS, MD and his colleagues in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the University of Alabama at Birmingham have made a serious impact on global oral and maxillofacial surgery specialty. Moreover, their article contribution to our journal in 2020 made a huge influence by attracting an international community of readers to our journal, making us enormously proud. The masterpiece was dedicated to the use of zygomatic implants for restoration of complex nasal defects. Thereby, the current academic achievements and research activities of Dr. Le serves as a model for other OMS residents in training. In general, his clinical interests include, but is not limited to head, neck and oral oncology and reconstructive surgery.

of the peer-reviewed article is a short description of its main sections and simultaneously with the title is the most visible part of the paper. Articles of such types as case reports, case series, original research, review, essays, and many other types have their own abstract. Many, except of editorials. Considering the fact that as of 2023, the science unfortunately has been replaced by the pursuit of citations, the insufficient number of citations of editorial articles may be caused by the lack of an open abstract in them. We oppose discrimination of editorials. Editorial articles are permanently evolving and the number of editorials in which the number of pages reaches 9 is increasing. And an article with so many pages should have its own abstract. We demand that editorials be given the right to have their abstracts. The problem of the absence of an abstract in editorials is like a coin—it has two sides. On the one side, scientist, or editor of other journal, especially in the case of closed (i.e., paid) editorial, may not understand from the editorial title alone the details of what the article is about and whether this article can be useful in their research, practice, or editorial office work. On the other side, the article lacks visitors and, as a result, its authors do not receive dividends in the form of citations. Let’s not forget about the publishers, who in turn receive less revenue in the case of closed editorials, which in turn does not allow reinvesting in technological innovations of journals. In this editorial, we analyze and present the advantages of integrating abstracts into such an important type of article as editorial.