Caring for Complexity: Clinical Challenges, Workforce Solutions

Join us at the BSPD Annual Scientific Study Day!
About this Event

Caring for Complexity: Clinical Challenges, Workforce Solutions

Join us in person to explore the evolving opportunities and challenges facing the paediatric dentistry workforce at this year's BSPD Annual Scientific Study Day. The study day will bring together clinicians, trainees and members of the wider dental team for a programme covering key developments in paediatric dentistry, workforce planning, dental trauma, biologics, and the management of children with complex medical conditions.

Social event

We welcome you to our post-study day social event! Join us for an evening of pizza after the study day, fully included in your registration.

CONNECT breakfast

The Child Oral health NatioNal rEsearch CollaboraTive (CONNECT) invite you to join them for an academic breakfast. This will be an opportunity to network with academic colleagues and hear from two speakers on research opportunities in training and managing setbacks. Registration will run separately direct through CONNECT. You can join their mailing list through www.connecttrainees.co.uk

Agenda

🕑: 08:30 AM - 09:15 AM
CONNECT Breakfast (Optional - registration direct through CONNECT)
🕑: 09:00 AM - 09:15 AM
Main Conference Registration
🕑: 09:15 AM - 09:30 AM
Welcome
🕑: 09:30 AM - 10:15 AM
What Have the Deaneries Been Up To?
Host: Dr James Spencer, Postgraduate Dental Dean for NHSE WTE

Info: Aims and Objectives:
Understand the role of deaneries in workforce development
Identify opportunities for colleagues to involved in workforce development

Course Objectives:
Understand the workforce development landscape
Encourage involvement in training and education
Identify opportunities for innovation

🕑: 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM
Understanding the Uniqueness of "Immature" in Incisal Trauma Management
Host: Prof. Monty Duggal, Consultant in Paediatric Dentistry

Info: Aim: To promote an understanding of the uniqueness in the management of dental trauma in children and adolescents and the influence of growth and development on treatment planning.

Objectives:
- Familiarise the participants with the impact of growth and development in dento-alveolar trauma
- Understand how growth can influence healing and outcomes
- Emphasise an understanding of patho-physiology of trauma in children and how that might influence choice of treatment
- Promote biological approaches, rather than technique-orientated approaches to management
- Familiarise participants with techniques for the assessment and the immediate, and long term management of some injuries

🕑: 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM
Refreshment Break
🕑: 11:45 AM - 12:05 PM
Quality Improvement and Research Committee (QIRC) National Audit presentation
🕑: 12:05 PM - 12:25 PM
BSPD Outstanding Innovation Award Presentation
Host: Dr Amrit Chauhan, Lecturer in Qualitative Methodology

Info: toothPASTE: A Co-designed Intervention to Enable Parents of Young Autistic Children to Feel Confident and Empowered in Looking After Their Teeth

🕑: 12:25 PM - 01:00 PM
Biologic Therapies in Children: What Dental Teams Need to Know
Host: Dr Mark Wood, Consultant Paediatric Rheumatologist
🕑: 01:00 PM - 02:15 PM
Lunch and BSPD Annual General Meeting (AGM)
🕑: 02:15 PM - 03:00 PM
Paediatric Bone Disease – An Interdisciplinary Update
Host: Dr Paul Arundel and Dr Joana Monteiro

Info: Aim:
To provide an overview and update of the medical and dental management of children with paediatric bone disorders.
Learning Objectives:
By the end of this session, participants will:
Understand the range of paediatric bone disorders seen in clinical practice
Understand the role and mechanisms of medical therapies in children with bone disorders
Recognise the potential oral and dental implications associated with these conditions and their treatments.
Understand the current evidence for Medic*tion-related osteonecrosis of the jaw in paediatric patients and how to manage that risk
Understand the potential for multidisciplinary collaboration in this area

🕑: 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Managing Paediatric Haematology Patients in Dentistry: What You Need to Know
Host: Dr Mike Richards, Paediatric Haematology Consultant

Info: Aim:
To provide an overview of common paediatric haematological conditions and their implications for dental care, enabling the dental team to deliver safe, appropriate, and well-coordinated treatment.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Be familiar with common paediatric haematological conditions encountered in dental practice
- Understand the potential oral and systemic implications relevant to dental care
- Identify key risks, including bleeding, infection, and treatment-related complications
- Apply appropriate modifications to dental treatment planning and delivery
- Know when and how to liaise with paediatric haematology teams to support safe patient management

🕑: 03:30 PM - 04:10 PM
Letting Go of Superwoman: Identity, Limits and Being ‘Good Enough'
Host: Dr Urshla (Oosh) Devalia, President of BSPD

Info: Aim: To share an honest personal account of becoming a parent to a medically complex child while working as a paediatric dentist, exploring how this challenged my identity, exposed my limits, and led me towards a more compassionate, “good enough” mindset.


Brief objectives: By the end of this session, participants should be able to:

- Describe how becoming a parent of a medically complex child can disrupt professional identity and sense of self.
- Recognise the impact of high health literacy and self‑imposed pressure on how clinician‑parents experience illness, decision‑making and “coping”.
- Reflect on the importance of boundaries and acknowledging personal limitations in sustaining wellbeing and compassionate clinical practice.
- Consider how resilience and mindset can be reframed away from perfectionism towards self‑compassion, flexibility and seeking support.

🕑: 04:10 PM - 04:20 PM
Close
🕑: 04:30 PM - 06:30 PM
Networking Event

Info: Social event and Pizza (optional)