Provisional Programme ORCA 2025*

*Please note that all times in the provisional programme are still subject to change.

We are pleased to announce that the provisional programme for the ORCA 2025 congress in Leeds will include four excellent keynote lectures this year, and that the scientific sessions will include poster presentations on all the following topic areas:

Artificial Intelligence; Behaviour; Clinical Studies; De- and Remineralisation; Diagnosis; Epidemiology; Erosion; Fluoride; Microbiology; Public Health; and Pulp-Dentinal Reactions

The precise timing of each of the scientific sessions will be confirmed when the abstract booklet is finalised by Karger publishers.

Please note that all posters should be mounted by presenters on Wednesday 2 July between 17.00-19.00 or between 08.00-08.30 on Thursday 3 July. All posters will remain on display throughout the entire congress.

TimeSession
10:30 - 13:30Pre-congress Education Meeting -
Part 1 - with lunch (invitation only)
(Denim)
13:30 - 14:00Registration Opens
14:00 - 14:30Coffee Break, Merchants Hall
14:30 - 16:45Pre-congress Education Meeting
- Part 2 (open to all) with Tea, Coffee & Cake
(Herringbone)
17:00 - 19:00All Poster mounting
(Herringbone & Tweed)
19:00 - 21:00Welcome Reception
(Merchants Hall)
TimeSession
08:00 - 09:00All Poster Mounting
(Herringbone & Tweed)
Registration Open
09:00 - 10:30Opening Ceremony and
Yngve Ericsson Prize Lectures
(Herringbone)
10:30 - 10:45Coffee Break, Merchants Hall
10:45 - 11:45Poster Viewing
(Herringbone & Tweed)
All Thursday presenters to
stand by posters 10.45-11.45am
11:45 - 12:45Clinical Studies I
(Herringbone)
Nathan Cochrane I
(Tweed)
12:45 - 14:15Lunch
(Merchants Hall)
14:15 - 15:00Keynote: Professor Chris Vernazza
Title: Is it worth it? Promoting prevention: The economic perspective
15:00 - 15:15
15:15 - 16:15Clinical Studies II
(Herringbone)
Nathan Cochrane II
(Tweed)
16:15 - 16:45Coffee Break
(Merchants Hall)
16:45 - 17:45Fluoride I
(Herringbone)
Public Health
(Tweed)
19:30 - 23:00Riverside BBQ, DoubleTree by Hilton, Leeds City Centre
TimeSession
08:00 - 09:00Poster viewing
(Herringbone & Tweed)
All Friday presenters to
stand by posters 8-9am
Coffee
(Merchants Hall)
09:00 - 10:00Fluoride II and Erosion
(Herringbone)
Nathan Cochrane III
(Tweed)
10:00 - 10:15Coffee Break, Merchants Hall
10:15 - 11:15Epidemiology I
(Herringbone)
Nathan Cochrane IV
(Tweed)
11:15 - 12:15Coffee break & Meet the board (Merchants Hall)
12:15 - 13:00Keynote: Professor Peter Day & Dr Kara Gray-Burrows
Title: “Nanny state” or “parental responsibility”- navigating and advocating for children’s oral health
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
(Merchants Hall)
Corporate Lunch
(Room TBC)
14:30 - 15:15Keynote: Professor Colin Robinson
Title: Questions asked, questions answered, questions unanswered
15:15 - 15:30
15:30 - 16:30Epidemiology II
(Herringbone)
Pulp Reactions, Diagnosis, Behaviour
(Tweed)
17:30 - 19:00Travel to Gala Dinner Buses depart from Infirmary Street, Leeds LS1 2JP from 5.30pm
19:00 - 23:00Gala Dinner (Majestic Hotel, Harrogate)
TimeSession
08:00 - 09:00Poster viewing
(Herringbone & Tweed)
All Saturday presenters to
stand by posters 8-9am
Coffee
(Merchants Hall)
09:00 - 10:00Demineralisation-Remineralisation I
(Herringbone)
Education & Artificial Intelligence
(Tweed)
10:00 - 10:15
10:15 - 11:15Demineralisation-Remineralisation II
(Herringbone)
Microbiology
(Tweed)
11:15 - 11:45Coffee Break (Merchants Hall)
11:45 - 12:30Keynote: Gail Vernon
Title: Delivering Research into Practice: Practical Insights from the Dental Industry’
12:30 - 12:45
12:45 - 13:30Closing Ceremony (Herringbone)
13:30 - 14:15Lunch (grab-a-bag), Merchants Hall

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