The BDIA

The Association for the UK Dental Industry

The British Dental Industry Association (BDIA) is the UK’s national trade association, representing and supporting the collective interests of manufacturers and suppliers of dental products, services and technologies. The BDIA has a member community of over 104 companies.

The BDIA plays a pivotal role in driving standards for the provision of quality oral healthcare.

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Who are we?

Welcome to the British Dental Industry Association (BDIA)

Our members range from SME’s all the way through to international businesses within the sector, manufacturing and supplying innovative products, services and technologies to develop dentistry.

We facilitate the need of our members to help shape and improve the future of dentistry, we do this by sharing knowledge, building business, networking and engaging in initiatives to develop the sector – we play a pivotal role in driving standards for the provision of quality oral healthcare.

Every BDIA member adheres to our professional Code of Practice. This means that in choosing to do business with any of them you can have confidence that everything you buy is of guaranteed quality and provenance – you are in the hands of a trusted, quality-conscious company.

The BDIA Vision

Advancing the dental industry

The BDIA advances the dental industry through its four core pillars of the BDIA Vision – ACES: Advocacy, Communication, Education and Support.

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Explore what the BDIA has to offer

The BDIA plays a pivotal role in driving standards for the provision of quality oral healthcare.

Membership

The BDIA offers a range of resources and benefits to help you elevate your dental business to the next level.

Membership Benefits

Directories

Browse our directory of trusted suppliers, manufactures and service providers and see the products they offer.

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Education

Discover the BDIA Certificate: Introduction to Dentistry course and develop your career in the dental industry.

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Membership Benefits

Communications

Regular member communications share latest industry news, updates and programme of events. Receive monthly newsletters, our members only Dental Insider magazine and more.

Community

A members-only online area holds information on the latest activities on which the industry is focusing. It is also where members can access latest news, support and advice, policies, research and statistics.

Insight & Resources

The BDIA provides robust industry insights to members to help support decision making. This easily accessible information saves members both time and resource, and ensures latest available data is at their fingertips

Education

A number of education and training opportunities are available to member companies to enhance their skills and supply a quality service to their customers.

Events

Members networking events are a key feature in the BDIA membership calendar - we aim to facilitate useful meetings with colleagues, peers and industry professionals to develop opportunities and connect with the best businesses within the industry.

Support

By engaging with influencers, we provide a wide range of support to promote and protect members interests, as well as access to valuable sources of information, allowing members to concentrate on their day to day business.

LEARN WITH US

The BDIA Certificate:
Introduction to Dentistry

The British Dental Industry Association has designed an education programme to fast-track students knowledge of the dental industry and profession.

Attain the foundational knowledge that is required to work in the dental industry

Developed by specialists, The BDIA Certificate: Introduction to Dentistry delivers benchmark training standards within the dental industry.

Download the BDIA Dental Industry Manifesto

The Dental Industry Manifesto outlines how the BDIA believes
the next Government can contribute to achieving the industry’s positive vision for the future of the UK’s dental industry and oral health care.

If Government can take the opportunity to build the right
regulatory environment and provide targeted investment it can make a significant contribution to protecting the UK’s oral health for years to come, as well as supporting the UK dental industry.

The Dental Industry Manifesto is being circulated to key
opinion formers across the Government, Civil Service, the NHS and other relevant organisations

Priorities for future government action are identified across three pillars:

World class regulation of medical devices

The UK’s medical devices regulatory framework should
prioritise transparency and predictability, adopting international recognition as a pragmatic and proportionate approach that advances patient safety while fostering innovation and supporting businesses.

Improving the nation’s oral health

Government should recognise the value in supporting the
provision of both NHS and private dentistry as a means to ensuring significant advances in the nation’s oral health.

A favourable healthtech environment

Creating a stable and attractive environment that fosters
growth and innovation, while establishing the UK as a favourable place to invest and do business, should be prioritised by Government for the benefit of patients, industry and the wider economy.

TESTIMONIALS

What our members say

Helping dental businesses succeed through, valuable insight, building credibility and trust, and by being the voice of the industry in the UK.

“As a leader within the dental lab sector we find it challenging to keep up with regulatory changes and flow through effects from clinical requirements. The BDIA has been paramount in giving ongoing guidance and allowing me to proactively keep up and make changes as required.

“When I set up NSK in May 2007 I didn’t have to think twice about signing the business up for BDIA Membership. Over the years we have used the BDIA Introduction to Dentistry training resource for colleagues new to dentistry, regulatory and compliance matters and as a general sounding board. I value the BDIA’s lobbying efforts to make our industry’s voice heard in places inaccessible for individual members. To me the BDIA is an invaluable resource and membership should be part of anybody’s armamentarium who is operating in our space.”

“Being a BDIA member increases our credibility as a supplier and gives us access to the best technical support we need to maintain our high quality dental product range. We also get valuable information like Dental Spotlight that would be very difficult to obtain elsewhere.”

BDIA Events and Networking

BDIA Dental Showcase 2025

14/03/2025

An unmissable opportunity for the entire practice team, BDIA Dental Showcase provides everything you need to enhance your techniques, improve your Practice, and inspire your team!

BDIA Dental Showcase,

14th – 15th March 2025, London, ExCeL

An unmissable opportunity for the entire practice team, BDIA Dental Showcase provides everything you need to enhance your techniques, improve your Practice, and inspire your team! This free, two-day event is the first opportunity in 2025 to discover the most exciting insights and innovations within dentistry.

You will meet with over 300 of the UK’s leading dental suppliers & manufacturers, source and test thousands of the latest products, equipment, and solutions and take advantage of deals and discounts exclusive to the event! Bringing together the brightest minds and leading clinicians from the dental community, our thought-provoking educational programme provides an invaluable platform.

Discuss the industry’s biggest challenges, debate the newest methods and find solutions to grow your practice and develop your team. With 6 conference theatres, 50+ hours of FREE CPD, over 120 speakers and plenty of dedicated networking zones, there’s no better exhibition in the UK to connect with the entire dental profession.

If you would like to register to visit the show, please click here.

If you are interested in exhibiting, please click here.

Visit dentalshowcase.com for further information.

For decades, BDIA Dental Showcase has been the leading event in dentistry. An event designed to suit the needs of dental professionals and supplier organisations alike.

Supporting the profession for nearly 100 years BDIA Dental Showcase highlights excellence and innovation in UK dentistry.

Uniting the whole dental profession at a key time of year, our first-class exhibition of over 300 leading suppliers and manufacturers provides the perfect environment for visitors to explore the latest innovative products and equipment. You can discuss the practical, hands-on application of the solutions you need to take your practice forward and make the most of special offers and discounts at the event, whilst joining your peers in insightful panel debates and discussions, and hearing from our inspirational line-up of the most talented clinicians from multiple specialities and disciplines in dentistry.

Please head to www.dentalshowcase.com for full details, follow @dentalshowcase on Twitter for updates or contact Portfolio Director David Hussey for more information.

BDIA Regional Dinner

27/02/2025

BDIA members are invited to join us for an informative update on the latest dental economic trends and insights into how these changes could affect your business at our networking dinner.

Join us and gain valuable business insights at the BDIA Regional Dinner on Thursday 27th February 2025 from 6.30pm

The event

BDIA members are invited to join us for an informative update on the latest dental economic trends and insights into how these changes could affect your business at our networking dinner.

This BDIA event will offer members an opportunity to network with colleagues while enjoying a buffet dinner and benefitting from an update on key economic developments within dentistry.

The speaker

Our pre-dinner speaker for this event is Stephen Tidman, back by popular demand following an engaging update at our 2023 Late Summer Conference.

Stephen is a leading dental economist and one of the foremost analysts of trends in the dental profession. Chairing the UK Dental Market Study Group, he works closely with organisations including the BDIA, BDA, DLA and NASDAL to prepare the most comprehensive annual dental market report available, including bespoke work for our own Spotlight publication.

Stephen will be discussing the following topics and looking at factors that are influencing these areas of discussion using data not yet released from the newest issue of BDIA Spotlight 2024:

The total spend on UK high street dentistry, including NHS/private split
High street practice trends
Gross earnings/turnover of NHS practice owners (England)
NHS uplift (England) and RPI increases

Stephen will be giving an exclusive preview of many of the insights that will be included in Spotlight 2024 later this year. From developments in the composition of the dental workforce to practice expenditure, profitability and ownership levels, the information in Stephen’s update will be relevant to all BDIA members.

Who should attend

All employees of BDIA member companies are encouraged to attend. In addition, BDIA members are welcome to book tickets on behalf of colleagues within the dental profession who would benefit from this networking opportunity and the insights on offer.

Agenda

6.30pm -7.00pm: BDIA Welcome reception
7.00pm – 7.45pm: Presentation from Stephen Tidman
7.45pm – 8.45pm: Buffet dinner
8.45pm – 9.00pm: Goodbye message

Venue and location

National Motorcycle Museum
Address: Coventry Road, Bickenhill, Solihull B92 0EJ

Dress regulations

Business casual.

Price
Tickets cost £65+VAT per attendee and include a buffet dinner.

A cash bar is available at the venue if attendees wish to purchase drinks.

BDIA Midwinter Meeting 2024

10/12/2024

BDIA Midwinter Meeting: Book your tickets now for this years not to miss BDIA Dental Industry event!

BDIA Midwinter Meeting 2024

As we approach the festive season we invite you to join us for this year’s BDIA Midwinter Meeting.

A long standing BDIA tradition, our Midwinter Meeting is an excellent opportunity to network with fellow members, introduce new colleagues in your business to new contacts and to build relationships, so now is a brilliant time to join us in celebrating of 101 years of your Association.

This year’s dental industry event will be held in the unique Council Chamber of Denys Ladsun’s architecturally renowned Royal College of Physicians building, Regents Park, London.

We have invited the Baroness Merron, DHSC Minister for Health (attendance TBC) to join our other speakers, including inspirational laboratory owner, Ashley Byrne, the BDA’s Martin Woodrow, Dr. Robert Reid, the MHRA’s Deputy Director, Innovative Devices, who is a key figure behind the MHRA’s International Recognition/Reliance proposals. and the BDIA’s new Commercial Director, Mark Hyde on the day.

Midwinter Meeting programme (provisional)

11.00-11.30am– Arrival/coffee
30– 11.45pm – The BDIA President’s & Chief Executive’s Welcome
145– 1.00pm – Our speaker sessions –
1.00– 1.30pm – Pre-dinner drinks.
30- 4.00 pm Midwinter Lunch.

Tickets

Tickets for the Midwinter meeting are £135 + VAT per person.

Dress code

Business casual

Venue

Royal college of Physicians

11 St Andrews Place,

Regent’s Park,

London

NW1 4LE

(There is no public access from Albany Street or Peto Place. Please arrive from the Outer Circle, Regents Park side of the building)

BY TRAIN
If you are travelling by train to the RCP, the nearest train stations are Euston (11 mins); Marylebone (20 mins); King’s Cross and St Pancras International (25 mins).

BY UNDERGROUND 
If you are travelling via the underground, the nearest tube stations are Regent’s Park (Bakerloo line; 4mins); Great Portland Street (Circle, Metropolitan and Hammersmith & City lines; 4mins); Warren Street (Victoria and Northern lines; 8mins). The nearest underground station is Southwark. Southwark

For any enquires please contact darrylmoore@bdia.org.uk

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The BDIA Vision

Advancing the dental industry

Learn more

Explore what the BDIA has to offer

Membership

Directories

Education

JOIN US

Membership Benefits

Communications

Community

Insight & Resources

Education

Events

Support

LEARN WITH US

The BDIA Certificate: Introduction to Dentistry

Attain the foundational knowledge that is required to work in the dental industry

Download the BDIA Dental Industry Manifesto

World class regulation of medical devices

Improving the nation’s oral health

A favourable healthtech environment

TESTIMONIALS

What our members say

BDIA Events and Networking

BDIA Dental Showcase,

14th – 15th March 2025, London, ExCeL

Join us and gain valuable business insights at the BDIA Regional Dinner on Thursday 27th February 2025 from 6.30pm

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