1st international and 16th National Conference of the Indian Association of Forensic Odontology was held on 29th - 30th September, 2018 at Goa. Centre for Forensic Odontology, MCODS, Mangalore actively participated in the event with three staff members Dr Srikant N, Dr Nandita KP, Dr Amitha Lewis and four students Dr. Nitin (intern), Dr.Annapurna, (intern), Mr Abhinav (final year), Ms Vaishnavi (final year) contributing to the paper and poster presentations and delebrations of the conference. There were around 330 scientific research paper/posters presented at the conference in the categories of Faculty, Postgraduates and Undergraduates.