On May 11th, 2023, the 6th National Conference of Oral Science – NCOS, was held under the slogan Dentistry Beyond Boundaries. The conference was organized under the supervision of Assist. Prof. Dr. Idris Hadi Salih, the Head of Board of Trustees at Tishk International University, Assist. Prof. Dr. Andlusamad Salahudin, the President of TIU, and Dr. Duran Kala, the Dean of the Faculty of Dentistry, and held in the presence of Dr. Sarhang Jalal, the Representative of Ministry of Health, KRG, in addition to the presidents of several universities and faculty deans.

The conference comprised two sessions in which five international speakers delivered their presentations parallel to a dental materials companies exhibition and nine research poster presentations. Khoshnaw Group companies and Al Shara company were the platinum sponsor of the conference, along with three more golden sponsors (Dental Blueprint, Medicine, Diamond Polyclinic) and eight other sponsors (Crown Dent, New Dent, Vanest, Medicine, Ivory, Dent House, Smart for maxilla facial radiology, and Golden Dent) companies. More than 900 participants from all over Kurdistan, other Iraqi cities, Turkey and Iran participated in the conference.

The NCOS aimed to publish all aspects of oral science and interdisciplinary fields, including basic, applied and clinical research, in order to enable knowledge and information accessibility to everyone, to gather and contribute researchers, practitioners, educators, and scholars with interests in any fields of dentistry at all levels from around the world. The NCOS 2023 conference was designed to attract the research communities to promote connections between theory and practice and explore different perspectives on applying research findings to dental and educational practices.