The seventh meeting (2016) was held in Bergen (Norway). The conference took place in the new building of the Department of Clinical Dentistry.

The central topic of that meeting was the Methodology of handling data from longitudinal studies. The meeting hosted about 100 oral health researchers and statisticians/epidemiologists active in oral health research from more than 20 countries.

A pre-conference course was organized entitled How to extract more (and better quality) information from your study. In addition, a post-conference course on Methods of handling data from longitudinal studies was organized. Both courses attracted 20-25 participants. The conference hosted several highly ranked international lecturers.