Program

PROGRAM

Friday 3 March / 6:30pm: President’s Cocktail Party

Saturday 4 March 2023

8.30am

Opening Welcome

9.00am

Minimally invasive paediatric dentistry: protecting healthy structures restoratively
Professor Norbert Kraemer

9.45am

Early treatment in orthodontics: intercepting or overdoing?
Professor Marie Cornelis

10.30am

Coffee Break

11.00am

Generation Chalky Teeth: a challenge in paediatric practice
Professor Norbert Kraemer

11.45am

Colgate AAPD Recent Graduate Speaker Award

Proudly sponsored by Colgate this session is a fantastic opportunity to hear recent graduates present on a range of current and controversial topics relevant to our field.

Contemporary Controversies

12.30pm

Lunch

1.30pm

The regeneration game: next generation bio-applications for oral health
Professor Alastair Sloan

2.15pm

AAPD General Meeting

2.45pm

Afternoon tea

3.15pm

Trans Healthcare in Australia: How do we best support trans children and young people?
A/Professor Michelle Telfer

4.00pm

TBC
The Clown Doctors

5.00pm

Close

7.00pm

Conference Dinner

Sunday 5 March 2023

9.00am

Coffee on arrival

9.30am

Paediatric Dentistry 2050
Professor Norbert Kraemer

10.15am

3-Minute-Thesis Session

In this ‘speed dating style’ session currently enrolled DCD students are invited to present their research in just 3-minutes. This session provides an opportunity to hear about the breadth of research being carried out by our colleagues across Australia and NZ.

11.00am

Brunch

Special Session: Pharmacological Management of Children

11.30am

General Anaesthesia: Is it the panacea we want it to be? 

Dr Balvindar Kaur

12.00pm

Sedation in children

Dr Ed Alcaino

12.20pm

IV sedation, an alternative, or a burden, 1999 to Covid

Dr Peter Wong

12.40pm

PG09(G) Guidelines to procedural sedation

Dr John Sheahan

12.55pm

Discussion

Panel includes: Dr Balvindar Kaur, Dr Peter Wong, Dr Ed Alcaino, Dr John Sheahan, Professor Sotiria Gizani (EAPD), Dr Ninna Yuson (USA)

1.30pm

Close

Program overview

The conference offers a rich program, covering diverse topics within paediatric dentistry. Here’s a glance at some of the speakers and their topics from our program.

Norbert Kraemer

Keynote Speaker

  • Professor Norbert Kraemer
  • Professor of Paediatric Dentistry

Professor Kraemer will bring his clinical, scientific and academic experience to peer into the crystal ball. He will describe a future in which we’ll see technology – such as 3D imaging and artificial intelligence – change our field forever.
Marie Cornelis

Early treatment in orthodontics: interception or overdoing?

  • Professor Marie Cornelis
  • Professor and Head of Orthodontics Melbourne Dental School

Professor Cornelis will address the common and challenging questions that we, as paediatric dentists, often have to address. When it comes to early and mixed dentition intervention: are we intercepting – or over treating?

Alastair Sloan

The regeneration game: Next generation bio-applications for oral health

  • Professor Alastair Sloan
  • Head of School Melbourne Dental School

Professor Sloan will inspire and challenge us to imagine a very different future. On where novel tissue engineering and regenerative technologies open the door to a new world of opportunity to us as dentists.

Michelle Telfer

Trans Healthcare in Australia: How do we best support trans children and young people?

  • A/Professor Michelle Telfer
  • Director of Adolescent Health Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne

A/Professor Telfer has been instrumental in establishing a world-leading trans-specific health service for children and adolescents. She will share her experiences and insights with us as paediatric clinicians so that we can better understand the evolving needs of our patients and their families.

Bal Kaur

General Anaesthesia: Is DGA the panacea we want it to be?

  • Dr Balvindar Kaur
  • Staff Anaesthetist Royal Children’s Hospital & Royal Dental Hospital

In this session Dr Kaur looks at the true risks and impacts to the neurodevelopment of a child when general anaesthesia is used in paediatric dentistry. She also explores alternatives to this form of sedation. And delves into the ANZCA PS09 changes and what it means for us as paediatric dentists.

special sessions

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Pharmacological management of Children

This session, which includes presentations from both anesthetics and paediatric dentistry, will provide an opportunity to understand the benefits and challenges surrounding the provision of dental treatment to children under both general anaesthesia and sedation.  It will end with a panel discussion exploring opportunities and barriers to expanding access to high quality dental care to all children.
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Contemporary Controveries: Colgate AAPD Recent Graduate Speaker Competition

Proudly sponsored by Colgate Palmolive recent specialist graduates will deliver short presentations on any topic that is both contemporary and controversial within paediatric dentistry.
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3-Minute-Thesis: DCD student research presentations

In this ‘speed dating style’ session enrolled DCD students are invited to present their research in just three minutes. This session provides an opportunity to hear about the breadth of research being carried out across Australia and New Zealand.

THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS

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