Venue: Hilton Garden Inn, Busselton, WA
Dates: 26 July 2025
Overview
The ANZSPD WA Branch held its annual Mid-Winter meeting on 26th July 2025, venturing away from the comfortable tradition of Bunker Bay to a new location at the Hilton Garden Inn in Busselton, WA. The meeting room had a glorious view of the rain clouds moving across the Indian ocean, but the real action happened on the screen during the day.
2025 Highlights
Dr Joshua Graieg – kenote speaker: We were spoilt to have Dr Joshua Graieg, prosthodontist, as our keynote speaker for the day. Josh provided us with down to earth presentations reviewing basics from bonding mechanisms right through to sophisticated adhesive bridges, all tailed to our patient age cohort. Teeth on the screen with the right amount of science held us completely. Josh is definitely in our little black book to be asked to speak again.
UWA DCD Presentations: The talented UWA DCD Paediatric Dentistry students held our interest for a large part of the day, frightening us more mature practitioners of the reality of social media-driven dentistry to the increasing presentation of e-trauma (scooter driven). Thanks to Dr Mo Halane, Dr Joti Lidder, Dr Sarah Zeitoun, Dr Kelvin Jin and Dr Lee Lian Wong for their time.
Superb Speakers: Dr Jo Stevenson provided a timely update on the WA Health Early Childhood Dental Program, now known as Smiling Starts. A targeted education program embracing our multicultural society, she taught us that a little effort early has big benefits later. Closing out the day was our ANZSPD WA President Dr Timothy Johnston with a reminder to not throw out the old but tested modalities. He showed us that sometimes old-school can rule, or at least match newer materials and treatment modalities.
Evening Dinner: The day culminated in a great dinner at KYST restaurant, catching up with colleagues who have become friends over the many years attending ANZSPD WA Mid-Winter Meetings. Fortunately, the weather gods held up most of the rain until the following day when we made our way home carefully on flooding roads.
