Dental News - Choices abound at 2011 ADA Annual Session

Dental Tribune International

Wed. 5 October 2011

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LAS VEGAS, NV, USA: The 152nd American Dental Association (ADA) Annual Session and World Marketplace Exhibition will be held Monday through Thursday, Oct. 10 to 13, at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas. The meeting offers 260-plus continuing education courses spread across four days, 500-plus dental supply and service companies, and countless other education and networking opportunities.

Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will speak at the opening general session.

Nonstop education

More than half of the 260 C.E. courses are free (no extra fee beyond your annual session registration). Course topics cover all aspects of running a successful dental practice and keeping pace with the latest advancements in patient care and treatment. Among the possible education tracks: esthetic dentistry, ethics, federal dental services, geriatric dentistry, preventative dentistry, new dentist, and team building.

Additionally, the American Dental Assistants’ Association, whose 2011 annual meeting runs concurrently with the ADA Annual Session, worked with the ADA to develop a dental assistant track featuring 18 courses. There also are courses and events focused on all other positions within a typical practice, including hygienists, who can use course attendance toward license-renewal requirements.

World Marketplace Exhibition

The World Marketplace Exhibition hosts more than 500 of the industry’s leading suppliers of dental products and services. But there’s far more than just shopping going on. The Annual Session’s education theme is heavily represented in the marketplace, too, confirmed by The LOC (Learn, Optimize, Connect) and its 50,000 square feet devoted to exploring the latest tech trends in dentistry.

Highlights include:

The Laser Pavilion gives you the opportunity within a single workshop to touch and compare virtually every laser on the market while you learn basic laser physics and other fundamentals.
Pride Institute Technology Expo features best-of-class high-tech products identified by Pride Institute’s “Tech Expert Leadership Council.”
The 3-D Imaging Center, presented in cooperation with The American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology, offers hands-on firing of various CBCT machines, with a comprehensive overview of CBCT principles and practices.
The CAD/CAM Stage features 45-minute company presentations and full demonstrations of the making of a crown from prep to delivery on a typodent.
Open Clinical and Science Forums, hosted by the ADA Council on Scientific Affairs and the Journal of the American Dental Association, give scientists and opinion leaders a platform to present sometimes controversial and always thought-provoking concepts in a lively discuss-and-debate format.
And back after its successful 2010 debut, the New and Emerging Speaker Stage gives on-the-rise educators a one-hour lecture platform to present courses on some of the industry’s most important topics.

Education in the Round

Sponsored by Philips Sonicare and developed in cooperation with the American Dental Education Association, these diagnosis-to-treatment scenarios put you in a real-time, live learning environment. Six live-patient procedures are performed in a fully functional operatory, enhanced with the display of close-up, high-definition images of the procedures, step-by-step.

The courses are:

Live Surgical Demonstration of an Extraction/Ridge Preservation Procedure
Active Clinical Treatment: The Art and Science (new-dentist track)
Live Patient, Seeing is Believing: From Evaluation and Treatment Plan to Completed Prosthesis
Live Surgical Demonstration of Root Coverage Grafting of Multiple Teeth in the Maxillary Arch
Minimally Invasive Dentistry: Solving Anterior Esthetic Problems with Composite Resin
Live Patient Biomimetic Dentistry — A New Generation

And plenty of fun

But this is Las Vegas. So you’ll need to break up your education focus with a few opportunities for fun. Among the many lighter-side activities sponsored by the ADA is the Pawn Stars Gold & Silver Roadshow, which brings us back to Chumlee (Austin Russell). From 2–4 p.m. Tuesday on the LOC Main Stage in the World Marketplace Exhibition, you’ll get to see the stars of the wildly popular HISTORY Channel show.

Rich Harrison, Richard Harrison (Old Man), Corey Harrison and his pal Chumlee will appraise hand-held items brought to the stage by a limited number of $49-ticket holders. That could lead to an actual sale transaction at the Gold & Silver Pawn Shop in Las Vegas, site of the breakout reality show. It’s another opportunity to pay for your entire four days in Vegas.

Never heard of “Pawn Stars” and have no interest in changing that? No problem. There are countless other opportunities vying for your attention at that same time. All you have to do is pick one.

(Source: ADA)

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