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Association of Dental Anaesthetists and Sedationists, 21 Portland Place, London (2025)

12/12/2025

Call for abstracts is now OPEN! Seeking compelling sedation cases, research, and quality projects for oral & poster presentations at the annual ADAS Conference in London. The stage could be yours for a chance to win £150 for the best oral presentation and £100 for the best poster presentation.

12/12/2025

The Association of Dental Anaesthetists and Sedationists proudly invites you to our annual conference "Mastering your Risk in Dental Sedation" held on the Saturday the 28th of March 2026 at the Hallam conference centre, London.

This conference is for dentists, doctors, nurses, dental and medical students with an interest in sedation.

This year, our conference committee have pulled together an exciting line-up of top speakers to cover all the hot topics in dental sedation to include medico-legal aspects of dental sedation, advanced sedation case reviews, safe control drugs management for sedationists, introducing capnography to primary Dental care, the very latest guidance on fasting instructions with modern weight loss injections and more!

We will also be hosting our annual oral presentation prize ( 1st place £150) and poster presentation prizes (1st place £100), so don't forget to submit your abstracts

Thank you to our amazing sponsors who will be attending with the very latest products and services.

Our evening social networking event (tickets only) will be held from 4.30pm - 6.30pm. All ticket holders will be entered to our raffle prizes!

Date: Saturday 28th March 2026
Location: Hallam conference centre, London
Time: 8.30am - 4.30pm
Evening social: 4.30pm - 6.30pm

Book your tickets now via Eventbrite (copy and paste the link below to your browser)
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/adas-2026-conference-and-evening-social-tickets-1758480024089?aff=oddtdtcreator

09/11/2025

✨ Join us for an insightful live webinar as we explore the future of inhalation sedation and how AI is shaping modern sedation practice.

✨️ With expert guidance from Dr Khadeeja Saeed and an industry update from RA Medical, this session is perfect for sedationists and dentists looking to stay ahead of the curve.

📅 Tuesday 13th January 2026
⏰ 7pm – 9pm
🎓 2 Hours Verified CPD

🔗 Register via link in bio

02/10/2025

Thank you to everyone who joined our recent study club webinar 🙏

A special thanks to our guest speaker, Dr. Will Sloper, for delivering such an insightful and engaging guide on dental sedation drugs! 💉🦷

Join us for future study club webinars!Stay tuned 😎✨️

Drop us a message below on topics you wish for us to explore at our next study club webinars! 👇

11/09/2025

Dear Dental Sedation Colleague,

🔹️ The Intercollegiate Advisory Committee for Sedation in Dentistry (IACSD) is currently reviewing the Standards for Sedation in Dentistry, which will determine the future of dental sedation.

🔹️ To help the committee make informed decisions, it is vital they have a clear picture of the current state of dental conscious sedation practice nationally.

🔹️ The Association of Dental Anaesthetists and Sedationists (ADAS) is facilitating this with a national survey on current dental conscious sedation practices.

🔹️ If you are a dentist or a doctor, providing dental conscious sedation to children and/or adult patients in primary and/or secondary care, please complete the survey.

🔗 Complete the survey- scan the QR code or follow link in our bio!

✨️All survey responses must be received before 17:00 on Thursday 18th September 2025✨️

✅ Your input is crucial to help preserve and promote safe, effective sedation practice.

📢 Please also share widely with colleagues and networks to ensure as many voices as possible are heard.

With gratitude

Dr Azher Ashraf 👨‍⚕️
President, Association of Dental Anaesthetists and Sedationists

11/09/2025

Dear Dental Sedation Colleague,

🔹️ The Intercollegiate Advisory Committee for Sedation in Dentistry (IACSD) is currently reviewing the Standards for Sedation in Dentistry, which will determine the future of dental sedation.

🔹️ To help the committee make informed decisions, it is vital they have a clear picture of the current state of dental conscious sedation practice nationally.

🔹️ The Association of Dental Anaesthetists and Sedationists (ADAS) is facilitating this with a national survey on current dental conscious sedation practices.

🔹️ If you are a dentist or a doctor, providing dental conscious sedation to children and/or adult patients in primary and/or secondary care, please complete the survey.

🔗 Complete the survey- scan the QR code or follow link in our bio!

✨️All survey responses must be received before 17:00 on Thursday 18th September 2025✨️

✅ Your input is crucial to help preserve and promote safe, effective sedation practice.

📢 Please also share widely with colleagues and networks to ensure as many voices as possible are heard.

With gratitude

Dr Azher Ashraf 👨‍⚕️
President, Association of Dental Anaesthetists and Sedationists

13/08/2025

Anaestheasier’s Guide to Dental Sedation Drugs

📅 Date: Thursday 18th Sept 2025
⏰ Time: 7-9pm
📍 Online – Join from anywhere

Calling all dental sedationists, dental practitioners, nurses, students - whether you’re brushing up for exams, refining your clinical skills, or simply wanting to deepen your drug knowledge - this one’s for you!

Led by Dr. Will Sloper! An anaesthetic registrar with a passion for medical education and specialist interest in obstetric anaesthesia, trauma, and critical care. He is the co-founder of 📚 Author of Surviving Medicine | 🎨 Creator of Unicycle Medic.
Making anaesthesia simple, accessible & surprisingly fun! We can’t wait!

This webinar will break down sedation pharmacology in a way that’s clear, concise, and clinically relevant.
💡 What you’ll learn:
•⁠ ⁠Pharmacokinetics vs. Pharmacodynamics – know the difference, use it in practice.
•⁠ ⁠Classes of drugs used in dental sedation (benzodiazepines, hypnotics & more)
•⁠ ⁠Drug-by-drug overview:
🔹 Midazolam
🔹 Remimazolam
🔹 Propofol
🔹 Fentanyl & alternatives (Remifentanil, Alfentanil)
🔹 Nitrous Oxide

🎟 Register now - spaces are limited!
👉 See link in Bio

02/08/2025

We're proud to share that our President Dr Azher Ashraf and Vice President Dr Shilpa Shah have been invited to participate in some of the exciting panel discussions taking place at the first ever Sedateuk Safe Sedation Symposium. This will be held in London on the 12th September 2025.

A novel approach in sedation cpd bringing together multiple specialities for collaborative thinking and learning. A great line up of speakers and also a networking event. Dont miss out and head over to .uk page for more info to book your tickets.

This conference is aimed at all who are involved in sedation....dentists doctors nurses and more.

We're looking forward to this event and hope to see our ADAS membership there.

17/04/2025

Thank you again to Resuscitation Consultancy Medical Services for sponsoring our conference earlier this year.

RCMS provide valuable training to healthcare professionals across the UK. They support teams to attain Immeadiate life support training and rehearsal of rescue in the dental setting so that they work safely and in line with IACSD guidelines.

A great day with lots of interest on their services and one lucky winner even won a free grab bag (pictured bottom right) that RCMS very kindly donated to us.

We hope to see the RCMS team again next year!

02/04/2025

Thank you to wonderful team from .uk who were Gold sponsors for our 2025 ADAS conference.

We are extremely grateful to Martin Lees, Craig Cook and Andreia Trigo took time out of their immensely busy schedules to support our event.

Sedate UK provide training for medics, dentists and healthcare professionals in sedation around the UK both in Hospital and primary care with 'The Safe Sedation Course'. They also offer numerous other courses such as cannulation, sedation trainer courses and safe sedation champion for managers and leads.

Their values promote delivering sedation safely, team training, audit and accountability.

Their very own 'Sedlog' app is downloadable by anyone and is recommended to be used by all sedation providers so that we can all contribute to the development and review of National dental sedation guidelines based on accurate and current mass data collection specifically in sedation in the UK.

Visit sedate-uk.com for more information

Thank you once again to the Sedate UK team.

02/04/2025

Thank you to Prof Chris Frerk, consultant anaesthetist and chair of Clinic Human Factors Group, a charity founded by Martin Bromiley in 2007. CHFG is a group of experts in Human Factors who work with service-users and professionals to campaign for change in the NHS and healthcare.

Chris delivered a captivating lecture to our audience educating us on what human factors science is, recognising some of the reasons why things can and do go wrong, particularly in dental sedation when teams are not working together daily and located in isolated primary care sites. He emphasizes that clinical knowledge and good technical skills alone are not enough to keep you safe.

His interactive exercises on the day quickly illustrated why daily work pressures and complacency in healthcare teams can lead to errors, irrespective of the grade of clinician, their experience and the heirachies that exist in hospital culture. He refreshed our knowledge on the ' swiss cheese' model and what leads to significant events occuring and empowers all members of the team to prevent these occurrences.

He shared valuable human factors tools that anyone can use to help make their work even safer than it already is.

Thank you Prof Frerk for a fascinating and invaluable lecture for our audience.

If anyone working in healthcare hasn't heard of Martin Bromiley please watch his video "just a routine operation" to gain more insight into the importance of Human Factors

Donations to this charity can be made by contacting Info@chfg.org

28/03/2025

A huge thank you to the team for being our platinum sponsors for this year's ADAS conference. Without the generosity and support of our sponsors this event would not have been such a huge success.

They also provided a wonderful gift hamper to a lucky winner 🏆 selected from all those who completed their survey on the day.

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