This may seem an odd way to begin a guest editorial in a dental journal, but there is a point, so please bear with me for a moment. How many of us still enjoy the feel of an actual paper copy of a book, newspaper, magazine, or journal in our hands? At a time when everything has gone electronic—from utility bills, bank statements, restaurant menus (…how I dislike QR codes…) to, yes, even our Operative Dentistry journal—I admit that I still hold on to a LOT of paper. Most of it I’ve read once, maybe twice, and will never read again. But perusing through my journal collection, deciding which issues to keep and which to discard (because my 30-something-year-old nondentist children will have no use for this stuff), I came across this editorial by our colleague, Dr. Fred Eichmiller. Fred wrote this piece over 25 years ago, but it remains...
