Adverse events and complications are an unavoidable part of clinical practice. How these situations are managed has significant ethical implications for patient welfare, professional integrity, and trust in the practitioner–patient relationship.

This lecture explores the ethical responsibilities of dental professionals when clinical outcomes do not go as planned. Key themes include honesty and transparency, ethical disclosure, informed consent following an adverse event, accurate documentation, and respectful communication with patients and colleagues. The session also considers ethical decision-making frameworks that support patient safety and professional accountability.

Ethics focus: Ethical conduct, accountability, transparency, patient rights, and professional responsibility in the management of adverse clinical events.

Financial pressures are an inevitable part of professional practice and can influence clinical judgement if not managed ethically. This lecture examines the ethical dimensions of financial decision-making in dentistry and the potential conflicts that may arise between financial interests and patient care.

The session addresses ethical principles related to billing, treatment planning, financial risk, and professional integrity. Attendees will gain insight into managing financial stress without compromising ethical standards, patient trust, or clinical outcomes, and how to make responsible financial decisions aligned with ethical and professional obligations.

Ethics focus:

Ethical financial behaviour, conflict of interest awareness, professional integrity, and patient-centred decision-making.

• Focuses on techniques for natural translucency, morphology of the teeth
• Layering strategies to create natural appearance 
• Conservative tooth preparation 
• Adhesion principles
• Polishing for long-term durability

In this candid, fast-paced, and slightly irreverent session, Dr Garrana takes dentists through the triumphs, pitfalls, and unexpected realities of life in implantology. From the elation of perfect torque values to the despair of stripped screws and soft-tissue surprises, the lecture explores both the successes and adversities every implant surgeon faces in daily practice. With a mix of satire, clinical honesty, and hard-earned wisdom, attendees will gain practical tips and survival strategies for navigating the ever-evolving world of dental implantology in 2025. Expect a blend of humour, case-based insight, and pragmatic pearls—because sometimes the best lessons in titanium come from the scars, not the textbooks. Dr. Garrana looks forward to sharing his journey, mistakes, and mastery with colleagues who still believe dentistry can be both serious and seriously funny.

• Conservative tooth preparation 
• Matrix systems: Discussion of modern sectional and circumferential matrices for tight contacts
• Occlusal anatomy: Stepwise modelling to replicate functional cusp-fossa relationships
• Key tips for maintaining anatomical accuracy and preventing food impaction to ensure clinical longevity

The dental pulp may be affected by traumatic dental injuries. Some injuries require the immediate initiation of root canal treatment (RCT) during emergency management, while others do not necessitate urgent RCT.

Certain injuries require RCT to prevent internal and external inflammatory root resorption, pulp necrosis, and the development of periapical granulomas or cysts, thereby ensuring a favourable long-term outcome.

For other injuries, the pulp should be monitored regularly, and root canal treatment should only be performed when there are clear signs of pulp necrosis and infection within the root canal system.

This presentation will discuss the different types of injuries that require immediate commencement of root canal treatment and illustrate the complications that may arise from failure, supported by clinical case reports.