Over the last twenty years FGDP(UK) Scotland now CGDent Scotland has brought dental speakers from around the world to share their wisdom with delegates. In the past sixteen years we've welcomed:

2025

Ian Dunn "Passionate Perio for the Dental Team"
Professor Jim McCaul Oral Cancer "What you need to know, what you need to do!"

2024

Andrew Chandrapal on anterior and posterior composite dentistry and Catherine Rutland on ethical and legal considerations within dentistry. The event concluded with Wendy Thompson's Caldwell Lecture presentation on "Using antibiotics sustainably".

2023

Prof. Shamir B. Mehta & Prof. Subir Banerji lecture together: “Wearabouts” on tooth wear.
“NHS Scotland Post Covid “ by Prof Jason Leitch

2022

Justin Durham 'Tough, Maddening, and Daunting: is this a real-world clinicians’ view of TMD?' and 'Burning, electrical, and unusual: orofacial neuropathic pain'
Finlay Sutton 'Partial dentures that function superbly and look amazing'
The MalDent Project - Progress through Partnerships

2021

Iain Chapple and Carol Tait. diagnosis, treatment and management options for periodontitis, peri-implantitis, pulpal and periapical disease along with an examination of the effectiveness and suitability of contemporary dental material applications and techniques.

2020

Cancelled due to Covid

2019

Avijit Banerjee and Tara Renton. Modern management concepts for treating the deep carious lesion in an adult alongside a review of our understanding of trigeminal pain and the need for pragmatic classification. Speaker presentations will culminate with an interactive session on leadership in dentistry.

2018

Charlette Stilwell provides practical hygienic partial denture design and diagnostic approaches to complete dentures alongside Serpil Djemal on the management of dental fractures and luxation injuries.

2017

We welcomed Trevor Burke and Terry Donovan whose 'TnT' debate on the future of amalgam was a highlight of the day.

2016

Saw the return of Van Haywood who delivered a comprehensive presentation on occlusion and was joined by David Bartlett on Tooth Wear/BEWE

2015

The UK's leading expert on perio Phil Ower and the visionary complex case specialist Bill Robbins.

2014

The inspirational Martin Kelleher and insightful Terry Donovan with tips and tricks on dealing with the Ageing Dentition. "Long in the tooth: the ageing dentition"

2013

The world-renowned Gordon Christensen who gave us an update on everything new in the dental world. "Wisdom about Teeth"

2012

Stephane Simon and Kishor Gulabivala on Endodontics and Saman Warnakulasuriya and Graham Ogden on Mouth Cancer.

2011

Van Haywood and Linda Greenwall on Tooth Whitening

2010

Didier Dietschi and Michel Magne on Aesthetic Dentistry

2009

Raj Rattan and Kevin Lewis on Practice Management