This year's Young Dentist Conference was a sell out success for the second year running. The conference was a joint collaboration between the British Dental Journal and Dental Protection and featured some of the UK's most exciting speakers who mixed essential information for those at the start of their career with humour and experience.

One of the reasons for the conference's popularity with VT groups from all over the country, as well as other recently registered members of the profession, was the speakers' emphasis on how various issues impacted upon young dentists.

The programme's speakers covered topics including relationships and the management of patient expectations from Kevin Lewis, Dental Director of Dental Protection, making the jump to practice ownership, from Peter Ward, Chief Executive of the BDA and working in teams - the human factor, from Professor Ciaran O'Boyle, Head of the International School of Healthcare Management at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.

Kim Black-Totham, BDJ Publisher and speaker at the conference said, “We wanted to make the BDJ more accessible for today's young dentists and for them to have access to a wide range of experts to help them negotiate the host of changes that have been happening in dentistry recently.”