AGpO MEMBERSHIP NEWS A Place for Camaraderie and Support: AGpO Has Much to Offer, Join Us Online and In Person It is with great excitement and enthusiasm that I serve the AGpO this year from the State of North Carolina, home of the University of North Carolina’s Tarheels! What a blessing it has been getting to know so many of you over the past decade! I want to extend a warm welcome to all of you and invite everybody to our 2021 Annual Meeting located in, what many consider to be one of the best cities in America: Austin, TX. AGpO’s 2021 meeting will be held on September 23-25 at the newly rebranded Stephen F. Austin Royal Sonesta Hotel. Located in the heart of downtown near the State Capital Building, this iconic hotel has been a hallmark of the Austin skyline for many decades. You will be located within walking distance of many attractions including the Sixth Street Entertainment District, consisting of a dozen city blocks of live music venues, pubs and restaurants. Austin is known as the “Live Music Capital of the World”, so there is always an event nearby for your listening pleasure! Speakers for this event will be Dr. Ron Austin, a long-standing instructor of the Academy, and Dr. Messias Rodrigues, a Brazilian orthodontist. Dr. Austin will be speaking on impacted canines, Austin Protraction Technique, Subdivision cases, and finishing pearls of wisdom. Dr. Rodriguez will be discussing his Simplified Straight-Wire Technique. The Academy has updated our website, www.acade-mygportho.com, and it is fabulous to say the least! We are so excited to direct you to this web address for all your GP Orthodontic needs. Our popular Assistant’s Course for dental auxiliaries has been rescheduled for Spring 2021. The Advanced Tip-Edge Course, featuring Jeffery Gerhardt, DDS, as Scott C. Earp, DDS well as AGpO’s 2020 Annual Meet-AGpO President ing are now available on demand. Mark your calendars for the Early Treatment course in Boerne, TX featuring Keith Wilkerson, DDS on December 4-5, 2020. Last but not least, please register and participate with the online community, www.myagpo.com. As a member of the Academy, you can receive help on a tough case and thoughts and considerations from featured members to utilize in your own practice. I have to say that reaching out in the digital world is the way of the future, but this is only one aspect of our Academy. I personally reached out 10 years ago, spoke with a wonderful lady, Cynthia Bordelon, who encouraged me to consider AGpO and explained to me how exciting the 12-session program would be for my practice. Dr. Robert Allen and his team more than welcomed me as they took a personal interest in me as an individual and fellow dentist. Our Academy is not just an online world; but also a place for camaraderie and support, with a personal touch that says, “we care”. As AGpO President, I look forward to a commit-ted effort of orthodontic excellence through this community of dentists and the digital world we find ourselves in! Scott C. Earp, DDS iaries using the Tip-Edge System. Dr. Young will cover the Tip-Edge stages of treatment, tracing cephalometric x-rays and model analysis for the diagnosis of arch length discrepancy. The Academy will supply a T.P. Orthodontics supply kit that includes bracket kits, archwires, and a carousel dispenser. A list of addi-tional supplies that will be needed from your office will be sent with course confirmation. Set time aside this important course; call the Academy at 1-800-634-2027 and speak to Adam or Jennifer to find out the final dates and reserve your space for this popular yearly course. Three-Day Dental Assistant Course To Take Place in Spring 2021 Dr. Charles Young will be teach-ing the Academy’s three-day Dental Assistant Course in Plano. TX. Due to the ongoing pandemic, this course has been rescheduled until the spring of 2021. The course will be held at the Renaissance Legacy West in Plano, TX. Call the Academy at 1-800-634-2027 for the dates and more information. The hands-on lab portion of this course makes it important to continue to offer it as an in-person course. The Dental Assistant Course is intended for assistants with little orthodontic training as well as a refresher course for more experi-enced assistants. The course will give the chairside dental assistant a better understanding of orthodon-tics and the Differential Straight Arch (Tip-Edge) Technique. Dental assistants will be working in pairs on study casts from your office along with typodonts from the Academy. Assistants will learn how to apply brackets, bands and auxil-www.orthodontics.com Fall 2020 39
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