Mission: To advance research and increase knowledge for the improvement of oral health in the United Kingdom, To support and represent the oral health research community, particularly to encourage young workers, dentally or scientifically qualified, to become involved in oral research, To facilitate the dissemination and application of research findings relating to oral health and the interactions between oral and systemic health.

One of the oldest of the specialist dental societies in the UK and was founded in 1953. The worldwide membership now numbers over 450. Our members have always been at the forefront of scientific, clinical and academic dentistry. The Society is established to advance education in prosthetic dentistry for the benefit of the public. It aims to promote and carry out or assist in promoting and carrying out research, surveys and investigations in prosthetic dentistry and the publication of such works.

Aims to promote the understanding of human ageing and later life through research and communication. It seeks to foster the application of this knowledge to the improvement of the quality of life in old age.

The mission of NIDCR is to improve oral, dental and craniofacial health through research, research training, and the dissemination of health information.

Formed in 1954 to advise, represent and support high-street dentists. Currently, the DPA is the largest dental organisation that specialises in general practice, representing over 1,400 practices in the UK and producing the industry-standard Private Fees and Wages Guide.

Conference of Postgraduate Dental Deans and Directors.

General information on Orthodontics, including the aims of orthodontic care and the people who work to achieve these aims.

The academic home for general dental practitioners. Based at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, our aim is to improve the standard of care delivered to patients through standard setting, postgraduate training and assessment, education and research.

For all those who are professionally concerned with the safety aspects of ionising and non-ionising radiation in education, government, industry, medicine and research.

To promote for the benefit of the public and the art of science and Dentistry, and in particular the art and science of Periodontology and in furtherance thereof, to advance all aspects of Periodontology and to promote improvements in the teaching of the same."