AOS MEMBERSHIP NEWS Find a New Level of Energy at the AOS Annual Meeting! To Learn. To Meet New People. To Touch Base with My Friends. To Renew My Energy. To Travel. Can you guess why these phrases are connected and to what they refer? Not surprisingly, these are consistently the five top reasons people give for attending a membership association’s annual meeting. Knowing these five reasons why people leave their work and homes to attend an annual meeting. How does the AOS Annual Meeting scheduled for Memphis, Tennessee the weekend of October 4-7, 2012 stack up with these priorities? To Learn: The AOS Annual Meeting offers 14 experienced practitioners and educators with hundreds of years of didactic and practical knowledge. We bring the leaders in their field. From Early Treat-ment to TADs to Case Finishing to Marketing your Practice to Practical Orthodontic Mechanics, there are 27 hours of Continuing Education available for the dentist and their team. To Meet New People: We bring over 200 new members into the AOS each year. More importantly, a third of the attendees that attend our annual meeting are first-time attendees. Several international dentists attend each year. Many of the companies that attend as exhibitors are new to the AOS. We truly have a dynamic member base to draw upon. Meeting new people is easy at one of our meetings. To Touch Base with My Friends: The AOS membership stretches from Florida to Califor-nia and from Michigan to Texas, Mitch Parker, DDS AOS President AND to the Middle East and Indonesia. It is impossible to keep up with your AOS friends unless you take one weekend a year to come to the AOS meeting. Our social calendar is just as full as our educational calen-dar at this meeting. To Renew My Energy: Everyone likes to be with others that share their passion. This may the strongest asset of an AOS annual meeting. The halls and class-rooms radiate energy as members review cases, offer tips, share problems, and just talk the passion of orthodontics. Your practice will find a new level of energy at an AOS Annual Meeting. To Travel: You want to see beautiful cities rich with history, then come to our Annual Meetings. For those that like to travel, you must see the historic Peabody Hotel in downtown Memphis, adjacent to the Mississippi River and the world famous Beale Street. If the blues wasn’t born in Memphis, it wasn’t too far from the cradle. This is the place to travel! Register now at www.orthodontics.com or call (800) 448-1601. See you in Memphis! Mitch Parker, DDS Doctors Complete “iOrtho Interception Orthodontics” Coursework Dr. Chris Baker's final session of her iOrtho Comprehensive Interception Orthodontics course were held in San Antonio, TX this summer. Students received hands-on demonstrations by Dr. Baker (group photo) and were presented with certificates of course completion. Dr. Baker's next course will begin September in Baltimore, MD and Phoenix, AZ. Learn more at www.orthodontics.com. www.orthodontics.com July/August 2012 91
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