BDJ Editor-in-Chief Stephen Hancocks recently had the opportunity to emulate broadcaster David Dimbleby having been invited to host Perio Question Time as part of the British Society of Periodontology's (BSP) Spring Conference.

The event, held in the famous Oxford Union, drew an audience of over 150 delegates eager to pose questions to the panel which consisted of Miss Julie Rosse and Professors Niklaus P. Lang, Richard Palmer and Peter Heasman.

Among other questions, panel members answered on the future of perio in the event of a Brexit vote, the most important advance in the specialty in the last 30 years and what they would have done if they hadn't been dental professionals. The three-day conference, presided over by incoming president Philip Ower, attracted delegates from across the dental and periodontal spectrum.