The lead song on the Beatles Abbey Road album of 1969 was ‘Come Together’. That song has great resonance 50 years later as our Merseyside branch urges everyone in dentistry with a passion for children’s oral health to ‘Come Together’ in the Beatles’ home city of Liverpool for our annual conference!
The theme is ‘20/20 vision’, a term that we know to denote standard eyesight, and is also a metaphor for learning from the past and looking to the future. It’s a perfect theme to explore many aspects of paediatric dentistry and child welfare, and to understand how our knowledge and experience can be translated into future policy and practise.
The conference opens with A BSPD Sugar Summit: Sugar, Obesity and Food Marketing. This picks up from the important Sugar Summit organised by the British Dental Association (BDA) in 2018.
Dr Alison Tedstone (Deputy Director Diet, Obesity and Physical Activity / Chief Nutritionist at Public Health England) starts the session with an overview of the government’s approach to sugar and childhood obesity. She is followed by Dr Emma Boyland (Psychological Sciences, University of Liverpool) describing the prevalence and power of food marketing on the media and eating behaviours. Professor Amandine Garde (School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool) closes the session by discussing the relationship between food marketing and children’s rights.
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