Dr Janice Ellis and a team from Newcastle recently won the Schottlander Poster Prize at the British Society for the Study of Prosthetic Dentistry (BSSPD) Conference in Newcastle.

The prize-winning poster, entitled Understanding the edentulous plight; the patients' stories, focussed on gaining a better understanding of the problems associated with the edentulous condition.

The study reported on the differences recorded between patients wearing conventional dentures and those wearing implant-supported overdentures. It also distinguished between the different patient profiles depending upon whether the patient was a late acquirer, an early acquirer or a compounded patient.

Dr Ellis received her prize from Dr Brian Schottlander at the BSSPD conference dinner held at the Baltic Exchange on Tyneside. The Schottlander Paper Prize winner was Dr David Newsum from King's College, London. He will be presented with his prize at a dinner later on in the year.