In 2018 the eight dental-statistical meeting was hosted by the Faculty of Dentistry, University of Hong Kong with as central topic: Evidence-based dentistry. The conference was attended by about hundred oral health researchers, methodologists, statisticians and students from 15 countries.

The two-and-a-half-day conference was successfully held with 4 keynote speeches, 2 symposia, pre- and post-conference workshops as well as 45 oral presentations and poster presentations. The pre-conference workshop focused on Conducting systematic reviews and network meta-analysis, while the post-conference workshop focused on How to GRADE the evidence and make recommendations. Two awards, Best Oral Presentation Award and the Best Poster Presentation Award, were sponsored by the Hong Kong Dental Association.