Wed 23 July 2025 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Maintaining the oral health of ageing patients
With Australians keeping their teeth for longer, dentists are required to manage what feels like a ticking oral health timebomb. The mouth of older patients is complicated by a minefield of factors including cumulative dental disease and treatment, chronic conditions, polypharmacy, frailty, and dependency. This webinar aims to help equip the general dentist with an understanding of ageing, its impact on oral health, and tools to navigate this journey with their patients.
Learn how to:
- recognise the important association between oral health and frailty.
- identify the factors in their patients as they age that increase the risk of dental disease and strategies to address them.
- understand tools that may assist them with decision making as patients become more dependent and frail.
Presented by Dr Mathew Lim
CPD hours: 1 clinical hour
RSVP by Monday 21 July 2025
After registering for this CPD webinar event, you will receive confirmation of registration. Once registration has closed you will receive a separate email with the Zoom webinar log on details.
Schedule
Speakers
Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor Mathew Lim 
BDS, BScDent (Hons), DCD (SND), PhD, MSCD RCS Ed, FRACDS, FSCD, FiADH, FICD, FPFA
Affiliations: Melbourne Dental School, University of Melbourne; Central Clinical School, Monash University; Alfred Health; Royal Melbourne Hospital; St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne
Clinical Associate Professor Mathew Lim is a young clinical leader and clinician-scientist. He is one of only 30 registered specialists in special needs dentistry, specialising in the management of patients with complex health needs and disabilities. He currently practices in Melbourne in the private and hospital sectors with appointments at Royal Melbourne Hospital, and St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne, and The Alfred, where he is also the Director of Dental Services.
Mathew also has academic appointments at the Central Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing, and Health Sciences at Monash University and at the Melbourne Dental School. These roles include Senior Lecturer in Special Needs Dentistry, Clinical Lead of the final year of the Doctor of Dental Surgery program, and Convenor of the Doctor of Clinical Dentistry (Special Needs Dentistry) degree. He had a diverse research background that ranges from clinical research into the evidence-based management of patients with bleeding conditions, to public health research focussed on understanding the challenges experienced by people with disability in relation to their oral health and improving oral health workforce capability to address the growing population of patients with complex medical needs and disabilities.
Mathew is Past-President of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Special Needs Dentistry and contributes regularly to local and international advisory committees and working parties, including the National Disability Roadmap Implementation Governance Group
