Abstract
The Japanese Society for Dental Materials and Devices(JSDMD)has started to provide Internet access to the database of literature on dental materials and devices(DENTMATE). The DENTMATE has been developed by the JSDMD with the cooperation of the members from 1986. For this new project, the retrieval system by Japanese Web database was constructed on the Internet, and is available free through our homepage site. This paper describes the guide to the retrieval system on the Japanese Web site. This retrieval system on the Web allows many users to obtain important biographical information on dental materials and devices.