The article announces that the 22nd annual meeting of the British Society for Oral Pathology was held from September 11-12, 1997 in Bristol, England. Reviewers of abstracts who contributed to the meeting are Gordon MacDonald, Howard Moody, Paul Speight. Abstracts of research papers presented in the meeting are provided in the article. Topics covered in these papers include cellular differentiation in tumour-derived human keratinocytes, regulation of matrix metalloproteinase, and normal buccal epithelium.