Dundee graduates among CGDent and GC Award winners
Successful candidates awarded funded two-day composite layering course in Belgium.
Two graduates of the School of Dentistry, University of Dundee, have been names as winners of this year’s CGDent and GC Award for Foundation Trainees.
Dr Yaa Agyei-Akwa and Dr Cara Marcuccilli were among the 18 winners who are now completing their Dental Foundation Training or Dental Vocational Training.
To enter the award, participants each submitted a restorative case which included at least one anterior tooth and composite restoration. Cases entered featured a range of restorative treatments including those for midline diastema, dental trauma, tooth wear, and peg shaped laterals.
The award, which was expanded to include dental therapists as well as dentists this year, was open to those who graduated in 2024 in the UK and Ireland or who were undergoing Dental Foundation Training, Dental Vocational Training or Joint Dental Foundation Core Training.
The successful candidates are each awarded a funded place on a two-day composite layering course which is taking place on 10-11 July at GC’s European Education Campus in Leuven, Belgium. The prize includes international travel and hotel costs and is worth around £1,400 per place.
Professor Sir Nairn Wilson CBE FCGDent, President Emeritus of the College, said: “I am delighted for all the winning candidates announced today and by the success of the 2024/25 CGDent and GC Award for Foundation Trainees, all made possible through the generosity of the Tom Bereznicki Charitable Educational Foundation, with the complementary support of GC.
“I anticipate the hands-on course provided at the world-renowned GC Education Campus will have a lasting, and possibly career-determining, impact on the participants, including the first Dental Therapist winner of the competition. The winners of this year’s competition can be justifiably proud of being on their way to Leuven.”