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General Submission Guidelines

  • SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Abstract submission will CLOSE 5TH MAY, 2024 (23:59 BEIRUT TIME)
  • NOTIFICATION TO AUTHORS OF ACCEPTANCE: END OF JUNE 2024

Submissions to present at the BIDM 2024 are encouraged in each of the following categories:

ORAL PRESENTATIONS

Ø Oral Presentations on Freely Chosen Subjects (Closed)

Ø Early Carrier Podium (Closed)

 

POSTERS

Ø Original Scientific Research and Education

Ø Clinical Poster

Ø General Poster (Please note there will be NO direct submissions to this category)

 

CLINICAL VIDEO 

 

Ø Oral Presentations on Freely Chosen Subjects

Abstracts submitted in this category will be critically appraised by the Scientific Committee. Only those accepted will present 20 munites at the Congress. Submissions may be on any topic within the broad scope of Dentistry including clinical, physical, biological and systemic health, wellbeing, quality of life and education.

Abstract Format:

Abstracts must NOT contain figures, tables, photos or illustrations. Abstracts must be approximately 200-300 words long and include the following sections:

  • Aim of the presentation
  • Summary of the talk
  • Key Learning Points (bulleted)


PLEASE NOTE: THE ORAL PRESENTATIONS ON FREELY CHOSEN SUBJECTS WILL BE EVALUATED ONLY ONCE.

Rejection:

Abstracts rejected from this category will be offered the opportunity to be included in the General poster section.

SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT HERE 

Ø Early Carrier Podium

This podium targets university residents and early carrier dentists, with no age limit. Abstracts submitted in this category will be critically appraised by the Scientific Committee. Only those accepted will present 15 minutes at the Congress. Submissions may be on any topic within the broad scope of Dentistry including clinical, physical, biological and systemic health, wellbeing, quality of life and education.


Abstracts Format:
 Abstracts must NOT contain figures, tables, photos or illustrations. Abstracts must be approximately 200-300 words long and include the following sections:

  • Aim of the presentation
  • Summary of the talk
  • Key Learning Points (bulleted)


PLEASE NOTE: THE ORAL PRESENTATIONS FOR EARLY CARRIER PODIUM WILL BE EVALUATED ONLY ONCE.

Rejection:

Abstracts rejected from this category will be offered the opportunity to be included in the General poster section.


POSTERS

Ø Original Scientific Research

Ø Education

Ø Clinical

Ø  General Poster 

(Please note there will be NO direct submissions to this category)

Original Scientific Research and Education:

The Scientific Committee is responsible for evaluating and selecting abstracts for presentation in the Original Scientific Research and Education Poster section.

Abstract format:

Abstracts must NOT contain figures, tables, photos or illustrations. Abstracts must be no more than 300 words long and include the following sections:

  • Aim – e.g. To evaluate, to analyse …
  • Methodology – a concise description of the experimental design, and materials and methods along with statistical tests
  • Results – results and statistical analysis
  • Conclusions – in brief and related to the results without speculation.
  • Acknowledgements and/ or Funding source – if applicable


PLEASE
NOTE: THE ORIGINAL SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ABSTRACTS WILL BE EVALUATED ONLY ONCE.

After the initial submission deadline, there will be no opportunity to modify abstracts or resubmit for further consideration. If the abstract does not comply with the guidance, is poorly written or information is missing, it will be rejected and considered for inclusion in the General Poster section.

Rejection:
Abstracts rejected from the Original Scientific Research and Education Poster subcategory will be considered for inclusion in the General Poster section. Abstracts may be rejected for the following reasons:

  • The abstract is incomplete or poorly organized;
  • Information is missing (objective, methods, results – data and statistical analysis, conclusions);
  • The subject is not significant;
  • The abstract is not original or was already presented, or published;
  • Well-defined criteria are not given for evaluation of variables;
  • Poor choice of controls or no controls reported;
  • The method of obtaining data is not appropriate to the stated problem;
  • The conclusions are not supported by the results.

Abstracts accepted and presented as posters in the Original Scientific Research and Education section will bepublished in the coming issue of Journal of Lebanese Dental Association (JLDA) and become part of the scientific literature. The committee reserves the right to move the abstract to another topic other than the one selected by the author. The presenter may withdraw the abstract at any time by emailing [email protected]

SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT HERE

Clinical Poster:

This section is for case reports or clinical techniques – and not for clinical research.

Research projects including clinical trials should NOT be submitted in this category but should be submitted to the Original Scientific Research category. If your submission does not follow the correct format, it will be considered to the General section.

Clinical poster submissions will be critically appraised by the Scientific Committee.

Authors will be given the option during submission to be considered to present their poster in the General Poster section if their submission is not accepted for the Clinical Poster section.

Poster format: Clinical posters should be prepared in PowerPoint and the final version saved in PDF format for uploading to the submission site. Only PDF files can be uploaded. All relevant images MUST be included in the PDF to illustrate the case report/technique in full..

The following sections must be included in the PDF poster:

  • Title
  • Authors (Please note a blind review process is not being used for Clinical submissions)
  • Institutions
  • Aim(s) of the case or technique included in the poster
  • Case Presentation (for case report or case series) / Methodology (for clinical description of a technique/material)
  • Discussion
  • Conclusion & Clinical Relevance
  • References (max 5)

Poster Presentation: All accepted original clinical posters will be moderated with 5 minutes allocated for presentation followed by time for questions. The nominated author must be in attendance for the entire session they are allocated to. 

Those posters not accepted for presentation in the Clinical poster category will be sent to the General poster section if this option is selected by the author on submission.

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General Poster 

(Please note there will be NO direct submissions to this category):

There will be NO DIRECT SUBMISSIONS to this category.  General Posters will be selected from those abstracts rejected from the following

subcategories:

  • Original Scientific Research Posters
  • Clinical Posters
  • Oral Presentations on freely chosen subjects.
  • Early Career podium

Clinical Video

Submissions in this category will be critically appraised by the Scientific Committee and only those accepted will present their videos.

Video format: 

The video should be a maximum of 5 minutes long and submitted in MP4 format (maximum file size 100MB). Videos should describe a clinical case, technique or procedure, having a clinical relevance but NOT clinical trials or research studies. Videos can contain text and images (still and moving). A picture of the presenter must be included at the beginning and end of the video so the audience can visualize who they are. Audio MUST be included to explain the clinical case, technique or procedure.

Video Presentation: 

All accepted videos will be shown in a lecture hall. The presenter will be informed when the showing will take place and it is recommended that the presenter attends the session in case there are questions from attendees, however, attendance is not essential.

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