Conference Programme 2026

CPD Outcomes: C, D

Overview/Learning Outcomes:  This lecture explores how in-house 3D printing transforms clinical workflows and practice profitability. It compares analogue and digital systems, outlines AI-driven design and single-visit crown workflows, analyses print times and costs, and demonstrates how integrating printing can significantly reduce laboratory fees while increasing efficiency and return on investment. 

CPD Outcomes: A, C

Overview/Learning Outcomes:  Dr Sharif Khan demonstrates how digital planning, navigated execution with photogrammetry, combined with rapid treatment protocols, using the a novel implant system, optimise patient comfort and treatment predictability. 

CPD Outcomes: B

Overview/Learning Outcomes:  This session examines how digital marketplaces and practice-friendly payment solutions are improving dental procurement in the UK. Using real-world, proven models, it highlights practical ways practices and suppliers can reduce complexity, improve cash flow, and operate more efficiently. 

CPD Outcomes: A, B, D

Overview/Learning Outcomes:  This session explores why tough conversations arise in dental practices and how to handle them with confidence. Delegates will develop communication and observation skills, learn effective response techniques, and understand how to coach their teams. Reflection and feedback strategies will help prevent repeat issues and strengthen future interactions. 

CPD Outcomes: C, D

Join Dr Neil Harris for a hands-on Revolution Workshop demonstrating a complete chairside crown workflow with SprintRay’s MIDAS, the only 3D dental printer with the technology to print up to three definitive crowns in just 10 minutes. From scanning and pressing print to bonding a mouth-ready restoration in a single session, you’ll experience a real-time live clinical case as you scan, design, refine, print and post-process a crown step by step—finishing with a clear, clinically relevant bonding protocol and practical insight into how chairside crowns fit seamlessly into everyday practice. 

Summary of Learning Content  This workshop explores the transition from analogue to fully digital restorative dentistry using AI design and the SprintRay Midas 3D printing system. It covers scanning, digital workflow integration, same-day restorations, finishing techniques, bonding protocols, material properties, and practical implementation within a modern dental practice. 

CPD Outcomes: A, B, C, D

Learning Content/Session Overview
This session explores why behaviour change in oral health often fails and how future focused, emotionally intelligent communication transforms outcomes. Learn a practical framework to increase patient motivation, strengthen long term commitment to gum health, and confidently position targeted interventions including chlorhexidine gel as part of a strategic, time bound reset.

CPD Outcomes: A, B

Overview/Learning Outcomes:  This session explores how dental nurses demonstrate essential soft skills, such as empathy, communication, teamwork, and adaptability, to enhance patient care. The entire oral health team will learn how observing and understanding these behaviours can improve patient engagement, reduce anxiety, support treatment outcomes, and foster a collaborative oral health team. 

CPD Outcome: B, C, D

Overview/Learning Outcomes:  Talks covering the use of SOPs in record keeping, as well as updates from the GDC and CQC 

CPD Outcomes: A, C

Overview/Learning Outcomes:  Fully guided composites is an excellent, additive restorative technique for treating the worn dentition. We will explore complications, maintenance and follow ups over 6 years. 

CPD Outcomes: C, D

Overview/Learning Outcomes:  Discover how Minimally Invasive Non-Surgical Therapy (MINST) is transforming periodontal care. This session demystifies the technique, showcasing practical tips, instrumentation pearls, and case outcomes that prove how precision, magnification, and tissue respect can elevate your non-surgical results and redefine what’s achievable in everyday periodontal practice. 

CPD Outcomes: C, D

Overview/Learning Outcomes:  CBCT has become an essential tool in dental practice. Training is required to maximise its capabilities. There are legal requirements in relation to its use. This talk by the world-renowned Jimmy Makdissi will cover these aspects.  

CPD Outcomes: A, B, D

Learning content:  The GDC's strategy for 2026 - 2028 demonstrates its vision is to be a trusted and effective regulator, supporting dental professionals to provide safe and effective care for their patients. Tom will explain the strategy and highlight the change this will deliver to build trust and transform dental regulation.

CPD Outcomes: B, C

Overview/Learning Outcomes:  Peri-implantitis, once hopeless, now predictably managed non-surgically using lasers for bacterial elimination combined with dual-wavelength (405 nm + NIR) antibacterial photodynamic lumoral therapy and 630–980 nm photobiomodulation to accelerate healing and re-osseointegration. Recent studies show success with rapid inflammation resolution, pocket reduction, and bone stabilization 

CPD Outcomes: A, B, D

Overview/Learning Outcomes:  Explore how private dental practices can grow responsibly in today’s economic climate. This session examines ethical growth along with profit, patient trust and education, affordability amid NHS Access pressures, transparent communication: redefining success as improved quality of care, professional integrity, and long-term value for both patients and practitioners. 

CPD Outcomes, B, D

Overview/Learning Outcomes:  Proven, actionable marketing principles designed to drive lasting success for every practice owner – for ambitious start-ups to seasoned leaders

CPD Outcomes: A, B, C, D

Overview/Learning Outcomes:  This session explores how purposeful digital planning transforms clinical workflows and patient outcomes. Learn to combine artistic vision with digital precision, streamline communication between clinic and lab, and apply practical strategies for efficient, predictable, and beautifully executed results in everyday dentistry. 

CPD Outcome: C

Overview/Learning Outcomes:  This session explores how TRIOS 6 scanning hardware and software support improved scan quality, HD detail and AI-assisted diagnostics. It will cover digital order forms and workflows, including supporting applications such as Unite Cloud for clinic-lab and the TRIOS Health App for patient communication, enhancing clinic, laboratory and patient experience. 

CPD Outcome: C

This lecture aims to provide an overview of the most popular and up-to-date tooth whitening techniques, exploring how these can be effectively combined with restorative procedures. Delegates will gain a comprehensive understanding of tooth whitening strategies to help them deliver predictable, aesthetic, and long-lasting whitening outcomes for their patients.

CPD Outcome: A, B, C, D

Overview/Learning Outcomes:  In this session, Reena explore the communication strategies that truly drive behaviour change - from explaining disease simply and clearly, to securing patient buy-in, improving oral hygiene adherence and strengthening teamwork. You’ll cover practical scripts, mindset shifts and systems that transform everyday conversations into consistently better perio outcomes. 

CPD Outcomes, A, B, C, D

Overview/Learning Outcomes:  An opportunity to sit down with the people at the centre of the current changes and ask them about the issues that are most important to you, in particular around NHS contract reform, NHS funding and workforce. 

CPD Outcomes (A, B, C, D)

Overview/Learning Outcomes:  Delegates will have a broader understanding of leadership and its application to Infection Prevention & Control and how by adopting a range of leadership styles can bring about change . 

CPD Outcome: C

Overview/Learning Outcomes:  As digital technologies become increasing ubiquitous, integration of scanners with preventative, periodontal, and restorative patient workflows are increasingly achievable. In this session with Dr Raj Juneja, learn from his experience maximising the value of the iTero intraoral scanner, from routine patient reviews and prevention, to restorative workflows including implants. 

CPD Outcomes: A, C

The ability to bond restorations to teeth, rather than cutting them to achieve retention, has developed immeasurably in recent decades. As a result, there are adhesive solutions to many common restorative challenges. For example, in contemporary dental practice, we now use minimal cavity designs for what previously would have been a large, conventional class II cavity, we can treat tooth wear conservatively when we crowned worn teeth in the past (to protect them!!), in some situations we can repair fractured teeth with the lost tooth fragment and we can repair broken crowns with clever adhesive technology.   

This presentation will therefore include a brief history of dentine bonding from the past to the present Universal Bonding Agents and will include examples of the use of such materials in adhesive solutions from the presenter’s own clinical practice. It will also attempt to dispel some dental myths, such as the need to always place a liner/base or remove every last speck of caries.

But, how can that grow a practice?  By advising patients that we will not cut their teeth until it is absolutely necessary, and then use the minimal amount of tooth preparation by using modern adhesive technology.  Patients will not know that this is our philosophy unless we tell them!  And, once they understand, they will entrust their mouths to you for life.

The same applies to prevention, which when carried out successfully, is another form of minimal intervention. In this regard, this presentation is kindly supported by Oral B.

CPD Outcomes: A, C

Overview/Learning Outcomes:  Led by Dr. Amit Mistry, this advanced session explores graftless full‑arch rehabilitation, coupling rigorous surgical protocols with digital and restorative efficiencies informed by design to support stability, esthetics, and lean inventories. 

CPD Outcomes: A, B, D

Overview/Learning Outcomes:  This session explores how practice managers and practice owners can work together as a unified leadership team. By strengthening communication, expectations, and shared goals, delegates will learn how to build a productive, trusting partnership that drives practice growth, team stability, and long-term business success. 

 

CPD Outcomes: A, B, C, D

Overview/Learning Outcomes:  Attendees will learn how guided techniques for implant dentistry can help them improve their patient care and clinical outcomes.  

CPD Outcomes: C

Overview/Learning Outcomes:  Running a successful dental business requires more than clinical skill - it demands sound financial understanding and strategic growth planning. In this session, David Brewer shares practical insights on building financial strength, exploring funding options, and confidently taking the next step toward successful and sustainable practice ownership. 

CPD Outcome: C

Overview/Learning Outcomes:  This presentation is to designed to educate the attendee of implementing the Elos Accurate® - Digital SMART flow system within their own laboratory day to day procedures. It is an open, end-to-end digital workflow solution that covers the entire process from initial scan to final restoration.  

CPD Outcomes: A, C

Overview/Learning Outcomes:  A live interactive hands-on composite bonding workshop. Dr Ali and Dr Fahad will do a live demonstration of each stage for a composite bonding restoration  

CPD Outcomes: A, B, C, D

Overview/Learning Outcomes:  Participants will be able to understand principles of sustainable practice, integrating holistic and minimally invasive (MI) strategies across the dental team. The session covers MI workflow focusing on tailored care according to risk assessments by employment of prevention, resource efficiency, interdisciplinary collaboration.  

CPD Outcomes: A, B, C, D

Overview/Learning Outcomes:  Attendees will understand lab scalability versus analogue limitations, and how digital workflows create greater predictability and efficiency. The session will cover two-appointment protocols, improved fit and occlusion, reduced chair time, and increased profitability—while delivering better patient experiences, stronger engagement, and more consistent clinical outcomes. 

CPD Outcomes: A, C, D

Overview/Learning Outcomes:  This session covers precision in tooth preparation, focusing on correct handpiece and bur handling. It includes a live demonstration of industry-leading equipment and practical techniques for conservative preparation. Participants will also learn ergonomic positioning to enhance control, accuracy, and comfort for both patient and clinician. 

CPD Outcomes: B, C

Overview/Learning Outcomes:  The 'Oral Health Practitioner' qualification is a novel route for dental nurses to upskill and take a more proactive role in offering preventive care to patients. This session will give an overview of what these professionals can do and how they can attain this qualification. 

CPD Outcomes: A, B, D

Overview/Learning Outcomes:   Talks from preeminent professionals from across the dental professions on the topic of how skill mix can be best utilised. 

 

CPD Outcomes: C, D

Overview/Learning Outcomes:  Provide and overview of root canal obturation. Then focusing on the 2 techniques of several - warm vertical condensation using epoxy resin and single cone obturation using bioceramic sealers.  

Be ready for a high energy, future-focused session at BDIA Dental Showcase

This highly anticipated conversation with Spencer Kelly will be supported by Hello Pearl, making the important connection between broader AI-driven technologies and those designed specifically for modern dentistry. 

He will be discussing:

• The impact of technology in healthcare
• The real capabilities and limitations of AI
• The importance of embracing technology for businesses
• What questions we should be asking of emerging technology

A thought-provoking conversation exploring how design can transform dental environments – moving beyond clinical function to create spaces that calm, inspire trust, and reflect modern wellness values.

Kelly Hoppen will share her perspective on design as psychological care, drawing parallels between hospitality, wellness and healthcare. The session will uncover how lighting, materiality, acoustics and brand identity can influence both patient experience and team wellbeing, while maintaining clinical excellence.

CPD Outcomes: A, B, C

Overview/Learning Outcomes:  Utilising connective grafting in every implant dentistry has become easier. This lecture will give clinicians simple concepts on how to harvest a CT graft to improve better outcomes for their implant patients, and covers tunneling techniques to improve soft tissue around ailing implants too. 

CPD Outcomes: A, B, D

Overview/Learning Outcomes:  Do we think the issue of peri-implantitis is being under-estimated or ignored, despite clear warning signs? This lecture will examine diagnostic complacency and also its complexity. The issues and reasons for seemingly delayed intervention and the need for meaningful and proactive strategies to mitigate or arrest the problem.  

CPD Outcomes: C

Overview/Learning Outcomes:  In this session, George Vernon reveals how energy, focus, and well-being directly impact productivity, leadership, and profit in the dental industry. Attendees will learn a science-based framework to enhance personal performance, prevent burnout, and convert improved health into measurable business ROI across practices, labs, and supporting services. 

CPD Outcomes: A, C

Overview/Learning Outcomes:  Learn new techniques of All on 4 surgery Learn new techniques in the restorative phase of All on 4 Learn new technologies and advancements in All on 4  

CPD Outcomes: C, D

Overview/Learning Outcomes:  Participants will master a novel single-stage technique combining biphasic calcium phosphate for bone volume augmentation with simultaneous keratinized mucosa enhancement in posterior sites. Understanding how biphasic materials upregulate bone healing for predictable long-term results. 

CPD Outcomes: A, B, C, D

Learning Content and Overview: Discover how AI is reshaping Google search and what that means for your practice. Learn why SEO still delivers the best long-term ROI, how to adapt for AI-driven search, and how to stay ahead while others guess.

CPD Outcome: C

Overview/Learning Outcomes:  This session explores how TRIOS 6 scanning hardware and software support improved scan quality, HD detail and AI-assisted diagnostics. It will cover digital order forms and workflows, including supporting applications such as Unite Cloud for clinic-lab and the TRIOS Health App for patient communication, enhancing clinic, laboratory and patient experience. 

CPD Outcome: C

Learning Outcomes
The phasing out of dental amalgam is already underway and a true alternative has been long awaited by the dental profession. The workshop will provide an overview of the new restorative STELA which is a viable alternative to amalgam involving a quick two-step procedure to restore virtually any cavity anteriorly or posteriorly. The latest in Composite technology providing a physically strong durable and aesthetically pleasing restorative material. You will be able to try out the product for yourself during the workshop session. 

CPD Outcomes: B, C, D

Learning Objectives:
•  Demonstrate an evidence-based and effective understanding of functional and aesthetic principles in posterior tooth preparation for indirect restorations. 
•  Identify key clinical and anatomical and physiological considerations when preparing posterior teeth, including occlusal clearance, axial wall height, and margin design, to support predictable restorative outcomes. 
•  Apply a structured, repeatable workflow for posterior tooth preparation, including preoperative assessment, isolation, and material selection to optimise adhesive and aesthetic outcomes. 
•  Evaluate and avoid common errors in posterior preparations that compromise restoration fit, function, or aesthetics
•  Communicate effectively with the dental laboratory through precise preparations and supporting records to ensure accurate restoration fabrication.

CPD Outcomes: A, C, D

Overview/Learning Outcomes:  Effective patient education and support are paramount, especially concerning periodontal health. This presentation will explore how the Align™ Oral Health Suite, from the iTero™ scanner, serves as a transformative tool. Demonstrating how intuitive educational aids enable the entire dental team to move into a new era of patient-centric care. 

CPD Outcomes: A, B, C, D

Overview/Learning Outcomes:  Professors Avi Banerjee and Iain Chapple discuss Dental System Reform with Nick Barker DCDO, the strategic implementation of the Complex Care Pathways, and how this will impact clinical practice 

 

CPD Outcomes: A, C

Overview/Learning Outcomes:  Current evidence on how lifestyle factors, diet, exercise, stress, sleep, smoking, influence oral health. The lecture translates evidence into clinical strategies to motivate behaviour change, improve oral and systemic health, and select appropriate adjuncts, including mouthwashes and dentifrices, tailored to specific oral conditions in everyday clinical practice settings. 

CPD Outcomes: C, D

Overview/Learning Outcomes:  How sustainable actions can be embedded into daily practice within oral healthcare teams and the innovative systems available to facilitate this. Furthermore, exploring how Artificial Intelligence is being used to advance oral cancer diagnosis, as well as what is next for the use of Dental amalgam in England. 

 

Brand, Culture, and Care

Belonging is a powerful driver of loyalty. When done right, it can transform business success and longevity.

DeNovo Dental Partners will be speaking to none other than Mary Portas to find out how dental practices can create a sense of culture and community among patients and teams alike. They will explore the importance of brand and ethics in business and healthcare; elevating the patient experience; building community; fostering a growth-minded work culture; and so much more.

Mary comments:

“Businesses need profits to succeed, but a narrow focus on financial metrics alone is no longer enough. True success today comes from building community, empowering people, and creating environments where individuals feel valued and supported to shape the careers they want. I’m looking forward to engaging with the dental community to explore how these principles can translate into better patient care, stronger teams, and more sustainable practices.”

CPD Outcomes: A, B, C, D

Overview/Learning Outcomes:  A review of the oral healthcare landscape in the UK in 2026 with a focus on dental hygiene and dental therapy, on workforce and growth opportunities. 

CPD Outcomes: A, B, C, D

Overview/Learning Outcomes:  This presentation will cover the reasons for aesthetic crown lengthening and the biological principles that are necessary for a predictable outcome for our patients. I will also cover how we assess which patients will benefit from aesthetic crown lengthening and some patients this may not be the best treatment

CPD Outcomes: A, B, C, D

Overview/Learning Outcomes:  Discover how implant success depends on teamwork, not just technique. This dynamic session explores the roles of dentists, hygienists, therapists, and nurses — from preparation to maintenance. Learn practical communication, prevention, and maintenance strategies to keep every implant — and your team — in winning form. 

 

CPD Outcomes: C

Overview/Learning Outcomes:  In this session, Andy Acton guides practice owners through the emotional, cognitive and operational pressures that lead to Owner Fatigue. He explains how fatigue develops, how it affects leadership and decision making, and offers practical strategies to restore clarity, resilience and momentum. 

 

CPD Outcome: C

Overview/Learning Outcomes:  This presentation is to designed to educate the attendee through the basic process of 3Shape implant bar design. Through theoretical demonstration the delegate will gain the technical knowledge and expertise required to achieve successful results on all on digital implant bar design and apply the process within their own laboratory 

CPD Outcome: A

Overview/learning Outcomes: Effective communication is at the heart of dentistry – but words alone often aren’t enough to truly engage patients. In this interactive session, Jaz Gulati and Cat Edney will demonstrate how loupe-mounted cameras can transform everyday clinical scenarios into powerful educational moments. The session will explore how real-time visuals—from oral cancer screenings to oral hygiene instruction, cracks, cavities, and periodontal pocketing—can improve patient understanding, boost compliance, and support shared co-diagnosis.
Delegates will not only observe these scenarios but will also gain hands-on experience with the Admetec Flamingo loupe-mounted camera technology, recording their own patient demonstrations to take away on the day. This is communication reimagined: practical, visual, and supercharged for modern patient care.

 

CPD Outcome: B

Overview/Learning Outcomes:  This session examines how digital marketplaces and practice-friendly payment solutions are improving dental procurement in the UK. Using real-world, proven models, it highlights practical ways practices and suppliers can reduce complexity, improve cash flow, and operate more efficiently. 

Four incredible female professionals blazing their own trails through dentistry will come together for this one-of-a-kind panel discussion. Dr Sara Hurley, Dr Fiona Sandom, Linda Greenwall and Roz McMullan will offer a rich combination of career reflections, industry challenges, and hope for the next generation of clinicians and dental leaders. Their unique insights and perspectives will provide invaluable insights into what has come before and what is yet to pass, with fascinating and thought-provoking exploration of how females roles have evolved and the barriers that still need breaking down. With all panellists recognised in the King’s Birthday Honours List 2025, this will be a celebration of their achievements and an opportunity to drive further progress across the profession.

CPD Outcomes: A, B, D

Overview/Learning Outcomes:  Jackie Cooper and Rana Al-Falaki discuss a number of topics around health and wellbeing, including the new GDC standard that focuses on practitioner and team wellbeing, and how building habits for long-term sustainable wellbeing is not just the key to a healthy team, but also vital for clinical compliance.  

CPD Outcomes: C, D

Overview/Learning Outcomes:  This session explores how ultrasonic tip geometry influences clinical outcomes across periodontal care. Using videos and case examples, delegates will learn evidence-based principles of tip selection, sequencing, and application to improve efficiency, patient comfort, and periodontal treatment success. 

CPD Outcomes: A, C, D

Overview/Learning Outcomes:  This lecture explores mouth cancer from risk factors and early detection to treatment effects and long-term rehabilitation. Dental professionals will learn to identify early signs, provide preventive care, manage post-treatment complications, and support patients’ oral function and quality of life through evidence-based, multidisciplinary approaches. 

CPD Outcomes: C, D

Overview/Learning Outcomes:  The hydraulic cements have been used in dentistry since the introduction of mineral trioxide aggregate (MTA). Currently there are various formulations on the market and are used for all endodontic procedures. There is lack of clinical awareness and optimised protocols for the use of these material types.  

CPD Outcomes: C, D

Overview/Learning Outcomes:  This session explores how AI-enabled dental software supports modern implant planning through improved visualisation, intelligent automation and streamlined workflows. Attendees will gain practical insight into how smart planning tools enhance accuracy, efficiency and clinical decision-making while maintaining full clinician control in everyday implant cases. 

CPD Outcomes: A, C

Overview/Learning Outcomes: Led by Dr Horwitz, Specialist in Periodontics, Implants Without Regrets: Biological Risk, Early Intervention, and the Blueprint for Lasting Success is a clinically focused session designed to bridge evidence and everyday practice. Drawing on real-world experience and current science, Dr Horwitz will unpack the biological and patient-related risk factors that most strongly influence long-term implant outcomes, with a clear emphasis on prevention and early intervention. The session will guide clinicians in confidently recognising and monitoring peri-implant disease, integrating structured assessment into routine care, and applying practical, evidence-informed strategies to stabilise disease within the scope of general practice. With a strong focus on communication and shared decision-making, this session empowers clinicians to set realistic expectations, support long-term maintenance, and ultimately deliver implant care without regrets.

CPD Outcomes: B, D

Overview/Learning Outcomes:  This session is aimed at early career dentists with the aim of showcasing opportunities, career paths and how the application process works.  

CPD Outcomes: A, B, C, D

Overview/Learning Outcomes:  Identify resuscitation policies and procedures. Recognise and respond to patients with clinical deterioration or cardiorespiratory arrest, escalating care in accordance the latest advice. 

CPD Outcomes: A, C

Overview/Learning Outcomes:  This session explores the evolving role of the digital dental nurse, highlighting how digital workflows, technology, and innovation enhance patient care, clinical efficiency, and professional development within modern dental practice. 

CPD Outcomes: A, B, C

Learning Content & Overview: The session will address minimally invasive techniques for caries management in children including silver diamine fluoride, and Hall Technique. It will also discuss the importance of dental plaque control in caries arrest including the new Oral-B toothbrush and its efficacy in dental plaque removal