Registered charity No. 1118671
Charity Commission Report for April 2024-March 2025
Current Trustees
Chair: Milli Doshi
President: Rebecca Wassall
Past President: Adele Cunnigham
Honorary Secretary: Thea Dickens
Honorary Membership Secretary: Jodie Bustin
Honorary Treasurer: Yvonne Rooney (Independent Honorary Auditor: Sue Greening )
Trustees April 2024– March 2025
Chair: Mili Doshi
President: Adele Cunningham
Past President: Gerry Mckenna
Honorary Secretary: Thea Dickens
Honorary Treasurer: Yvonne Rooney
Charitable Objectives of British Society of Gerodontology (BSG)
The aim of the society is to protect, maintain and improve the oral health of older people. This is achieved by providing a forum to further knowledge and increase awareness relating to the oral health, dental needs and treatment of older adults.
The society holds two conferences per year when members of various dental specialities and dental care professionals, and others with an interest, come together to consider and exchange information on the oral health care of older adults.
BSG Annual Scientific Meetings Financial Year 24/25
Summer Meeting 14[th] June 2024 and Winter Meeting 5[th] December 2024
The BSG Spring Scientific Meeting took place in Cardiff on the 14[th] June as a face-to-face meeting with 98 delegates. Presentations were delivered by the wider team on topics related to endodontics, digitalisation, social exclusion, mouth care in the inpatient setting, and sedation for older adults. A summary of the conference was published in the British Dental Journal. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41415-025-8991-x. Feedback included integration of clinical cases into the conference.
The BSG Winter Scientific Meeting took place in London on 5[th] December, 140 delegates attended. The title was ‘Clinical Cases and Innovations in Gerodontology’. Speaker topics included addressing the use of amalgam in older adults, Legislative Changes for Dental Therapists and Dental Hygienists, Perioperative Medicine for Older People Undergoing Surgery, promoting empathy towards the older population and some clinical cases and a panel discussion using the program ‘Slido’.
The feedback from both conferences proved them to be successful. The outcome of the conference highlighted that delegates wish to receive practical advice for ‘wet fingered dentists’ that may change their practice in the future.
BSG Annual General Meeting (AGM) 5th December 2024
December BSG members attended the face to face AGM after the Winter Scientific Meeting on 5[th] 2024. Reports were received from the president, treasurer, secretary, membership secretary, website editor, social media secretary and sponsorship secretary. Ordinary general meetings (OGM) were held face to face 13[th] June 2024 and virtually on and 16th of September 2024.
BSG Sponsorship
Overall, Sponsorship is getting narrower due to the current financial climate. The design-specific team had to pull out of the June 2024 conference due to staff shortages. Two sponsors, GC and Oralieve attended the June conference. The sponsorship secretary contacted existing sponsors early for the Winter Meeting 2024. All sponsors were charged £350.
Charity Activities
The charity pledged £5000 towards a standalone BSG research grant. Three excellent research applications were received. An StR Special Care Dentistry awarded research application that aims to ‘Map of gerontology in undergraduate curriculum topics’. Early career research prize to be offered again at the winter conference in 2025 conference. The committee have agreed there is potential to share this money across two research projects.
BSG provided applications for free dental care professional (DCP) places to attend the Summer and Winter meetings in 2024. 10 places were available for each of the conferences.
As per previous outcomes from 2023 conferences, BSG have been involved in a Silver diamine fluoride (SDF) project. A working group to produce some resources on the use of SDF with adults was put together, and a future presentation within one of the conferences is expected.
The committee have agreed on the need for updated domiciliary dental care guidelines as the previous guidelines were from 2008 by the British Society of Special Care Dentistry. BSG have agreed to update these jointly with the British Society of Special Care Dentistry and will ensure all four nations and DCPs are included. The aim is to have these published in 2026.
Committee members are also leading on additional guidance in collaboration with:
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Orla health and ageing. Royal College of Surgeons of England
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Oral health and the older person clinical guideline, Office of the Chief Dental Officer Both guidance are due for publication in 2026
BSG poster competition and prizes
A poster competition was organised, with winners announced during the Winter Scientific meeting hosted by BSG on 5th December 2024. 26 applications for posters were received. Prizes were offered for the best poster presentations on a subject relevant to older people and oral health, submitted in one of the following categories: case study, audit or quality improvement, innovation or research. There was a prize of £250 for the winner of each category for the following groups: dental care professionals, dental core trainees, specialist trainees, and dentists.
BSG Committee Links with Other Groups
BSG committee members continue to have links with other societies, charities and agencies including British Geriatric Society, British Society Special Care Dentistry, British Dental Association and Faculty of Dental Surgery. BSG provided input and response to guidance on Oral
health for Older People Living with Frailty, Delivering Better Oral Health and CQC ‘Smiling Matters’ report. BSG members have provided presentations and submission of articles to peer reviewed journals and other relevant organisations. BSG provide representation at senate and Specialist Advisory Committee for Special Care Dentistry.
BSG delivered a webinar series titled ‘Gerodontology - Caring for an Increasingly Complex Older Population’, the titles and topics included:
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Polypharmacy and Medical Complexity in Gerodontology, 12th June 2024
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Prevention of Oral Diseases and Commissioning of Care through Ageing, 17th July 2024
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The Dark Arts of Complete and Partial Dentures, 5th September 2024
The BSG committee also submitted a series of articles for a Dental Update Edition focused on the oral health of older people, which will be published in 2026.
BSG is working in partnership with the British Geriatrics Society on a webinar on Oral Health for older people and developing microlearning.
BSG has been represented at round table discussions led by the Office of the Chief Dental Officer (OCDO) .
Committee members have represented the Society through invited lectures at national conferences, including the British Society of Prosthodontics (March 2025) and the British Society of Geriatrics annual meeting.
The Society has strengthened its communications strategy with an active LinkedIn profile and Instagram presence . In line with member engagement trends, the Society has formally withdrawn from Twitter/X.
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