Beyond the Surface: understanding menopause and oral health
Speaker: Adele Johnston
Date: June 21, 2025
Time: 1030‐11:30
Room: Speaker room 1
The aim of this session is to provide dental professionals with a comprehensive understanding of the link between menopause, hormonal changes, and oral health. Attendees will explore practical, evidence-based approaches for managing oral health in menopausal patients, including treatment adaptations. The session will foster critical reflection on current clinical practices and encourage the integration of holistic care to improve patient outcomes. Through the development of menopause and women’s health knowledge participants will learn how to discuss sensitive topics like menopause with empathy and clarity, promoting patient-centered care. Additionally, the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration will be highlighted, underscoring the evolving need for specialised knowledge in menopause care as part of a multidisciplinary approach to women’s health.
Objectives
By the end of this session participants will have been:
- Given a deeper understanding of how menopause and hormonal changes affect oral health, with a focus on the implications for dental treatment planning.
- Equipped with evidence-based treatment approaches: practical, evidence-based strategies for adapting dental treatments to better manage the oral health needs of menopausal patients.
- Encouraged to adopt reflective practice, promoting critical reflection on current clinical practices and encouraging the incorporation of holistic care approaches to enhance patient care and outcomes.
- Provided with enhanced communication skills, improving participants’ ability to communicate effectively and empathetically with menopausal patients, ensuring sensitive and patient-centered conversations about menopause.
- Encouraged to foster interdisciplinary collaboration, highlighting the evolving need for specialist knowledge in menopause care for a multidisciplinary approach to women’s health.
Learning outcomes
By the end of this session participants should be able to:
- Better understand the link between menopause, hormonal changes and oral health.
- Adopt evidence-based treatment approaches.
- Use reflective practice.
- Communicate effectively and empathetically with menopausal patients.
General Dental Council eCPD outcomes: A, B, C and D.
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