IN-PERSON EVENT, hosted by the BDA Armed Forces Group

What to expect

The Armed Forces Group Annual Study Day will take place at a central London location on Thursday 3 July 2025.

All BDA Armed Forces Group members are invited to attended, including retired members and those members of the BDA currently employed as a CDP on a MOD Contract.

The Group's AGM will be followed by three lectures on oral surgery with speaker Chris Waith.

This annual event is a great opportunity to network with your colleagues.

*Retired BDA Armed Forces Group members are those who have retired from Defence Primary Healthcare (Dental) having accumulated at least 20 years of service, either in uniform and/or as a Civilian Dental Practitioner.

Timings

10:00 Registration and refreshments

10:30 Welcome, President's Opening Address, Prize presentation and Annual General Meeting

11:30 Lecture - Chris Waith

12:35 Lunch

14:00 Lecture - Chris Waith

15:00 Afternoon refreshments

15:20 Lecture - Chris Waith

16:20 End

Lecture details to follow

Meet the speaker

Chris Waith Lecturer in Oral Surgery and Sedation

Chris graduated with honours from Manchester University in 2002. He also won the Edgar Houghton restorative prize and the BDA Young Clinician award for Manchester. After VT he worked as a member of the Central Manchester maxillofacial team for three years during which time he passed the MFDS examination. His maxillofacial work continued at locum registrar level (2nd on call cover) for a year at Walsgrave (Coventry) and the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital. After eighteen months as a Staff Grade (OMFS) at the Countess of Chester he became Speciality Dentist in Oral Surgery at Manchester Royal Infirmary and Manchester Dental Hospital.

Chris is now a clinical teaching fellow and lecturer in oral surgery and sedation to MSc and undergraduate students. Chris is a SAAD qualified sedationist who currently treats 2-300 sedation cases a year. He has also completed the TC Ucer dental implant certificate. He is a clinical for the Astra system, lectures for Geistlich Biomaterials and is active in postgraduate education both learning and teaching. He is a member of the BDA, BAOS, SAAD, ITI and ADI. He provides private MOS, sedation and implants in Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire.

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Dietary requirements

Staying safe and COVID-19

If you feel at all unwell, we encourage you to take a lateral flow test the evening before you are due to arrive - should your test result be positive, we ask you not to attend.

If your test is negative, but you do have symptoms of COVID-19 (a new, persistent cough; a high temperature; or loss/changes to your sense of taste or smell) we kindly request you consider not attending the event to mitigate any risk to other attendees.