AOS MEMBERSHIP NEWS AOS Upcoming Ortho Courses If your assistants need a little “brushing up” on their skills, send them to Robin Schmidbauer's Advanced Straight Wire for Assistants November 7 & 8 in Atlanta. This class is designed to meet the needs of offices currently utilizing Straight Wire mechanics and wanting to expand the delegable duties performed by the assistant. (13 CDE hours) Dr. Juan Echeverri is teaching his Art and Science of Skeletal Anchorage with TADs class in Chicago November 14 & 15. Designed to give the treating dentist first-hand knowledge of skeletal anchorage using Temporary Anchor-age Devices, this course uses lecture and hands-on exercises to equip participants with a new set of tools to incorporate in their practices for improved comprehensive patient treatment. (14 CDE hours) Dr. Brad Williams will conduct a Case Finishing for Straight Wire Mechanics seminar the weekend of November 21 & 22 in Orlando, Florida. This two-day course is designed for doctors familiar with Straight Wire treatment, mechanics, and concepts. The focus of the program will be a hands-on approach to mechanics and techniques neces-sary to successfully finish and detail cases. (15 CDE hours) RUMOR HAS IT... that next year will be Drs. Larry White and Bill Wyatt's last to teach their perennial Orthodontics in Today's Dental Practice course, which begins January 23 & 24 in Dallas. This inter-mediate four-session course will teach the dynamics of Three Dimen-sional Diagnosis, the fundamentals of Biomechanics, direct and indirect bracket placement techniques, among many other skills. This may be your last chance to sharpen your orthodontic skills with two iconic instructors! (64 CDE hours) Dr. Ed Gonzalez will conduct his in-office Early Treatment for the Pediatric and General Dentist in Orlando Feb. 6 -8. This intensive two-and-a-half day course will teach participants when to start Phase I treatment and/or when to refer. Let a doctor who has performed over 4,000 Phase I cases give you the tools to treat young patients and grow your practice. (18 CDE hours) Dr. Ralph Nicassio is offering a NEW weekend course for the expe-rienced practitioner Feb. 6 & 7 in sunny Phoenix! Differential Diagnosis of All Class II and Class III Cases will focus on “differential case diagnosis,” allow-ing you to better understand and diagnose a variety of dental condi-tions. Offering new treatment plans and techniques to reduce patients’ compliance will greatly expand the variety of cases you can treat successfully, efficiently, and prof-itably. Making the “right” diagnosis converts a difficult case into a rela-tively easy one! (14 CDE hours) Dr. Leonard Carapezza leads his comprehensive Early Treatment of Malocclusion in the spring, with the Beginning course start-ing March 12 -14, and the Advanced kicking off the follow-ing weekend. Each session of this in-office course has been arranged to give the participant an in-depth study of the Straight Wire system using state-of-the-art audio/visual and hands-on procedures. Start treating your own patients after the second session! (80 CDE hours) The American Orthodontic Society 2014-15 Officers & Directors President David M. Thorfinnson, DDS President-Elect Juan C. Echeverri, DDS Secretary-Treasurer W. Edward Gonzalez, Jr., DMD Immediate Past President Michael J. Newman, DDS Board of Directors Twana Farley-Duncan, DDS Robert G. Gerety, DDS Emeritus Kevin J. Hester, DDS James E. McIlwain, DDS, MSD Anne Mary Orr, DDS James L. Orrington, DMD Allan Rotberg, DDS Kimberly Suter, DDS Bradford R. Williams, DDS Paul L. Winborn, II, DDS William E. Wyatt, Sr., DDS Emeritus Board of Examiners Jeffrey H. Ahlin, DDS Azita Anissi, DDS Leonard J. Carapezza, DMD Kenneth Ellis, DDS Joseph M. Haack, DDS Debra Ettle-Resnick, DDS Executive Director Thomas N. Chapman, CAE JAOS Editor Greg Cannizzo, DDS 44 Fall 2014 JAOS Scan with your smartphone to view all course details. Learn more about the Annual Meeting and all AOS courses on www.orthodontics.com. Follow us on Facebook!
Journal of the American Orthodontic Society Fall 2014: Page 44
