Dental News - ADHA annual session features Music City as lively backdrop

Dental Tribune USA

Sun. 14 June 2015

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NEW YORK, N.Y. USA: Dental hygienists around the nation are gathering at the Music City Center Convention Center in Nashville, Tenn., from June 17 to 20 for the American Dental Hygienists’ Association Center for Lifelong Learning (CLL) at the 92nd Annual Session. According to meeting organizers, ADHA members, guests and exhibitors will come together as a community to reflect on the great strides dental hygiene has made in the past century and to celebrate the limitless possibilities of future advancements in the profession.

The annual sessions includes a variety of networking opportunities, a two-day exhibit hall (June 19–20), student programming, plenary sessions and more than 28 unique C.E. courses in six program tracks. The six C.E. tracks are: Clinical Practice, Public Health, Educator, Research, Professional Development and Student. It’s possible for an attendee to earn up to 20 C.E. hours at the meeting. Cost of the C.E. courses range from $30 to $60 depending on the course, enabling you to design your own program, limited to a total expense of your choosing.

ADHA’s Center for Lifelong Learning at the Annual Session is the nation’s largest meeting for the dental hygiene profession, typically attracting more than 2,000 attendees each year. For more information, you can visit the meeting website, www.adha.org/annual-session.

Exhibit hall

The two-day exhibition is on Friday, June 19, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and on Saturday, June 20, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. It will feature more than 100 leading companies and suppliers in the oral health care industry with the latest, cutting-edge products and services for the entire dental team. Attendees can earn one C.E. credit by exploring the exhibit hall.

The exhibit hall provides a one-stop-shop to purchase all of your dental office needs, with many of the offerings featuring special show discounts.

Both exhibit days feature a complimentary lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., courtesy of Wrigley Oral Healthcare Program. To get the lunch, attendees will need to pick up a $15 food voucher each day from the Wrigley booth to be used in the exhibit hall restaurant. The voucher has no cash value and can only be used in the exhibit hall restaurant

Pays to be early

Another exhibit hall bonus: The first 200 attendees to enter the exhibit floor on Friday morning will receive a free gift. Meeting organizers encourage attendees to include the exhibit hall as a core component of their annual session experience. According to the organizers, “Purchasing from companies at the ADHA’s meeting shows the exhibiting companies the value of their participation. Exhibitors at the ADHA event help support you and the dental hygiene profession. Help show the value of why companies should exhibit at the ADHA’s annual meeting.”

Purchasing at ADHA can help you earn discounted or complimentary registration for the ADHA’s 2016 event in Pittsburgh.

New ‘Innovation Center‘

The new ADHA/Henry Schein Innovation Center, at the end of the 500 aisle on the exhibit floor, will highlight new technologies, products and equipment introduced to the market within the last 18 months.

Participating companies include Crest + Oral-B P&G Professional Oral Health, Dental EZ Group, Henry Schein Dental, OraPharma and Philips ZOOM!

ADHA’s Foundation: Institute for Oral Health corporate matching day

ADHA’s Foundation, the Institute for Oral Health, operates an informational and fundraising booth in the ADHA community center, staffed by volunteers, where ADHA members and student hygienists can make a tax-deductible donation.

The IOH corporate challenge grant sponsorship is a dollar-for-dollar donation match, with donations made by members matched by the participating company.

Plenary sessions

Plenary sessions are scheduled for Thursday and Saturday.

The Thursday, June 18, keynote presentation is at 8 a.m. and is open to all attendees and exhibitors. The speaker is Mike Rayburn, CSP, CPAE, an author, comedian and world-class guitarist with a reputation as an inspirational thought leader and one of the most in-demand and unconventional keynote artists in the world. Drawing on his success as an entrepreneur and Carnegie Hall headliner, Rayburn promises to help you increase profitability and impact by inspiring your team to become “possibility thinkers” and virtuoso performers — all by asking the question, “What if…?” Rayburn uses his guitar skills and comedy to illustrate three tools designed to turn your team into an “army of innovators.”

The keynote presentation on Saturday, June 20, follows the ADHA awards presentations, which begin at 8 a.m., and is open to all attendees and exhibitors. The speaker is Diana Nyad, who at the age of 64, in her fifth attempt, fulfilled her lifelong dream of completing the 110-mile swim from Cuba to Florida. She completed the grueling 53-hour journey on Sept. 2, 2013. In 2010, at the age of 60, she began her “Xtreme Dream” quest of completing the swim, which she had failed to finish 30 years earlier.

When asked her motivation, Nyad said, “Because I’d like to prove to the other 60-year-olds that it is never too late to start your dreams.” Nyad was unsuccessful in her quest in 2010 and tried two more times in 2011 and 2012 before completing the historic swim. Nyad has earned a reputation as a uniquely passionate and entertaining speaker.

(Source: American Dental Hygienists' Association)

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