About The Dental Rendezvous
Get ready for the Dental Rendezvous 2026!
Join us at the Valhalla Hotel & Conference Centre as we eagerly anticipate your presence for a three-day conference.
At the Thursday reception, enjoy music while chatting with friends and colleagues and sipping on a drink. Learn what dental companies have to offer. Get connected with the College students, who will be looking for potential employers. Enter draws and win prizes.
On Friday, prepare to learn about a rapidly developing field of dentistry and medicine, cutting edge research and to have a few epiphanies.
On Saturday, we will have an in person three hour Category I, PLP lecture by Dr. Peter Hong.
"Oral Surgery and Implants - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”
Thursday- Get to know our sponsors!
Thursday- Get to know our sponsors!
At the Thursday reception, enjoy live music while chatting with friends and colleagues and sipping on a drink. Learn what dental companies have to offer. Connect with college students who are looking for potential employers. Enter draws and win prizes.
Friday: Oral Medicine & Orofacial Pain
The program consists of four sessions designed for general practitioners:
Oral Medicine for General Practice – Covers assessment and management of common oral issues such as dry mouth, soreness, swelling, candidiasis, allergies to dental materials, recurrent ulcers, geographic tongue, lichen planus, and dysplastic changes.
Burning Mouth Syndrome & Sensory Changes – Reviews burning mouth, altered taste, and perceived dryness despite normal saliva, plus other oral sensory issues. Discusses diagnostic approaches and treatments, building on topics from Session 1.
Diagnosis & Treatment of Facial/Jaw Pain – Outlines how to use patient history, examination, and imaging to diagnose facial and jaw pain, distinguish jaw-related pain from neuralgic or systemic causes, and initiate basic treatment strategies.
Case Studies – Applies concepts from previous sessions to real cases, walking through complaint, diagnostic process, and treatment.
Oral Surgery and Implants - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
(Category 1 Core Course)
Course Description:
PLP staff will explore the topics of patient safety, antimicrobial resistance, dental malpractice,
informed consent, scope of practice, and handling adverse outcomes as it applies to oral surgery
and implantology. For educational and illustration purposes, the presentation contains numerous
PLP case studies.
Learning Objectives:
Upon completion, participants will be able to:
• define and understand the role of patient safety as it pertains to oral surgery and
implantology;
• understand the contribution that the dental profession makes to global antimicrobial
resistance;
• recognize the scope of practice as it pertains to dentistry;
• understand basic dental malpractice; and
• handle an adverse outcome.
Course presenters:
This course will be presented by PLP staff in person.
