Report of the UK Oral and Dental Health Research Summit.

On 14th April 2010, a national research summit meeting for oral and dental researchers was held at Sheffield University. The event was organised by Professor Paul Speight, President of the British Society for Oral and Dental Research (BSODR) and Dean of the School of Clinical Dentistry, University of Sheffield. The summit was jointly sponsored by the BSODR, the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Oral and Dental Specialty Group and the Health and Science Committee of the British Dental Association (BDA). Sixty invited participants took part. They included the Faculty of General Dental Practice (UK) Chair of Research and its two National Research Facilitators, along with Faculty members who attended as representatives of other organisations. The purpose of the meeting was to bring together the leaders of oral and dental research in the United Kingdom (UK) to consider the achievements of research in this field in the UK and how it could develop in the future.