On September 16-18, the Continental European Division of the International Association for Dental Research (CED-IADR), together with the Scandinavian Division (NOF), welcomed more than 500 participants from 47 countries all over the world at the 2021 Hybrid CED-IADR/NOF Oral Health Research congress in Brussels, Belgium. The two-and-half-day event comprised a broad scientific programme, consisting of state-of-the-art symposia, keynote lectures, and presentations of researchers from Europe and beyond. On the first day, GC Europe hosted a symposium focusing the challenges of an ageing population with respect to cervical lesions.