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As you will be aware, the BSP Patient Forum was established to give a voice to our patient community and help shape the future of gum health in the UK.

The EFP general assembly in Bern (Switzerland) held on Saturday 30th March marked a “changing of the guard” with a new team taking over key roles on the federation’s executive committee. Professor Iain Chapple, who has served as Secretary General for the last three years, handed over the reins to Professor Nicola West. At the same time, Professor Joerg Meyle (Germany), who has served two three-year terms as Treasurer was succeeded by Dr Monique Danser (Netherlands). In addition, Professor Filippo Graziani (Italy) became President for the next year, following Professor Anton Sculean (Switzerland).

We are looking forward to attending The British Dental Conference & Dentistry Show and promoting all things perio! The BSP will be on Stand H68.

We have now worked our way out of winter, and the clocks are about to spring forward. I hope that you don’t miss the extra hour in bed. We have been very busy and now April is almost upon us! We held our first Council meeting of the year earlier this month. It was an extremely productive day and we have lots of exciting projects in the pipeline that will benefit our members. The members of Council and our administrative team continue to be dedicated to the development of our Specialty and I feel honoured and grateful to be working with this focussed, imaginative and hard-working group of people.

The BSP recognise the importance of supporting undergraduate students. We currently offer free undergraduate membership and a range of annual awards and prizes for research into periodontology, thereby reflecting our commitment to progression and innovation.

We were delighted with the success of this month’s webinar “The New Periodontal Classification, by Students, for Students.” The event was free to all students and aimed to discuss the BSPs implementation of the periodontal classification system which resulted from the 2017 World Workshop in Periodontology, as relevant to the undergraduate dental student. We were incredibly proud of the student team from Bristol University for working so hard on this initiative and presenting such a professional and informative webinar.

Thank you to all of our members who took the time to vote in the recent Council election. The BSP is delighted to announce that Professor Francesco D'Aiuto was successful and has been appointed as "other member of Council". He will take up his position in January 2020 and we look forward to working with him. We would like to thank all of the other members who applied for the position and welcome them to apply again in the future.

It is with deep sadness that the British Society of Periodontology records the death of Dr Robert Genco. Professor Iain Chapple has kindly agreed to lead our tribute:

The BSPerio have produced a series of webinars which discuss and explain the need for the new classification.