Case reports in the field of evidence based pediatric dentistry convey unique contributions to the clinical practice and help improve the process of clinical decision making in the form of a brief written communication additionally case reports are potential resources of new hypotheses for more complex methodological designs in clinical research studies and are one of the best ways to get started in scholarly writing the purposes of the present report were to comment on the role . To assess the relevance and role of case reports in pediatric dentistry methods a systematic review prospero registration number crd42018108621 of all case reports published between 2011 and 2012 in the three major pediatric dentistry journals was performed manually data regarding citations of each report were acquired from the institute for scientific information database available online the authors analyzed information regarding citations number percentage and mean received by . Case reports in pediatric dentistry edited by evert van amerongen maddelon de jong lenters luc marks jaap veerkamp quintessence publishing co ltd london berlin chicago tokyo barcelona beijing istanbul milan moscow new delhi paris prague sao paulo seoul and warsaw. Case reports about innovative topics describing rare diseases syndromes and pathologies were more frequently cited keywords systematic review pediatric dentistry evidence based dentistry case reports journal impact factor 1 introduction in medicine a case report cr in scientific literature is the detailed report of the symptoms