2014 meeting will focus on ‘Controversies in Dentistry’

The Faculty of Dentistry at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) has announce details of its 2014 Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM) tol be held in Dublin on 30-31 October.

The title of this year’s ASM is ‘Controversies in Dentistry’ and will include lectures on caries management (including ‘seal or save?’), orthodontics (including ‘six month smiles’), the role of fluoride, drug therapeutics and the dental practitioner, adhesion, radiology, endodontics and oral surgery.

Confirmed overseas speakers include Amr Morsi (New York), StJohn Crean (Preston), Avi Bernerjee (London), Mark Hector (Dundee), Chris Deery (Sheffield) and Ross Hobson (Newcastle). We also have many accomplished national speakers including Hal Duncan (endodontics), Garry Fleming (adhesion) and Brian Bourke (orthodontics).

On the Friday afternoon we will have a special Leo Sheridan Lecture session, titled ‘Current controversies in the surgical management of head and neck cancer’ to be delivered by Brian Schmidt (New York) and David Vaughan (Aintree, Liverpool).

The meeting will be of interest to dental practitioners (both general and specialist) in Ireland and overseas.

Those who wish to register interest for this meeting, and would like to be kept updated on the event should email the Faculty office at facdentistry@rcsi.ie Please note that the Friday afternoon (head and neck cancer session) will require separate registration.