Open Paper and Poster Competition

2025: Winners

OPEN PAPER WINNERS

Audit/Service Quality Improvement:

1st prize:  Nerina Tackie – Confidence of Clinicians in Performing Minor Oral Surgery Procedures

2nd prize:  Gulpuvan Sindhu – A review of referral triage outcomes based on clinician seniority

Research:

1st prize:   Krishantini Mahendran – Chondro- and osteo-radionecrosis in the Head and Neck region – Beyond the Jaws

2nd prize:  Grace Clancy – Oral Surgery within Primary Care Settings; The Trainee Experience

POSTER WINNERS

Audit/Service Quality Improvement:

1st prize – Grace Clancy – Preoperative Information for Mandibular Third Molar Removal; Are Patients Engaging?

2nd prize – Kamila Marcinczak – Outcomes in Haemophilia Patients Undergoing Complex Oral Surgery Procedures

Case Presentation:

1st prize:  Pooja Rashivadekar – First bite syndrome – a rare symptom associated with head and neck diagnosis

2nd prize:  Akshi Shah – A rare case of Gardner’s syndrome involving a multidisciplinary approach

Research:

1st prize:  Richa Arya – Impacted mandibular second molars – a multi-disciplinary dilemma

2nd prize:  Louis Madden – Osteoradionecrosis: A Retrospective Study of Risk Factors and Clinical Characteristics

2024: Winners

OPEN PAPER WINNERS

Audit/Service Improvement:

1st prize:  Heena Nirmal – Audit on Patient Recovery Post-Open Exposure of Palatally Impacted Canines 

2nd prize:  Ilyaas Rehman – Airway assessments for conscious sedation – is it time for an update?

Research:

1st prize:  Alice Cameron – A Qualitative Study of DCTs’ Perceptions of Preparedness Following Simulation

2nd prize: Kate Jones – The Impact of COVID-19 on Odontogenic Admissions to OMFS 2019-Present

POSTER WINNERS

Audit/Service Quality Improvement:

1st prize – Sophie Mills – Rate of complications associated with lower third molar coronectomy

2nd prize – Thomas Turner – A quality improvement project improving patient allocation to treatment lists

Case Presentation:

1st prize:  Zaineb Dubaissi – LUSCious Lips: Cancer or a dermal filler complication?

2nd prize: Sylwia Nowak – TUGSE Case Series: An ulceration differential known to Oral Surgeons?

Research:

1st prize: Alan Mann – Imaging mandibular third molars – dental profession’s knowledge, attitude and opinions

2nd prize: Pavneet Chana – Is Autogenous Bone Still The Gold Standard? A Systematic Review