Roy Higson, Chris Barrow, Stephen Hancocks and Trevor Burke

The GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare (GSK) Talking Points in Dentistry programme celebrates its 20th anniversary this year.

The event, which toured the country for three weeks earlier this year, has presented more than 5,000 dental professionals with lectures on cutting edge clinical and policy issues in dentistry.

This year the tour visited 12 venues including the BDA Conference and Exhibition in Glasgow.

At this meeting Stephen Hancocks, Editor-in-Chief of the British Dental Journal, discussed how the dental team could save lives by helping patients to quit smoking and covered the health consequences of tobacco use.

Chris Barrow from the Business Coaching Company spoke about building a championship support team. He described a nine-point plan for team building that he called key in separating winners from losers.

His plan covered areas such as behavioural problems, organisational structure and business functions, motivation, vision, and delegation.

Talking Points, first introduced by GSK in 1985, is designed to provide a new and innovative type of educational seminar covering a wide range of relevant topics and issues suitable for the entire dental team.