AOS MEMBERSHIP NEWS AOS Upcoming Ortho Courses Swing into summer with outstanding courses in outstanding places! For more information, visit our website at www.orthodontics.com or call (800) 448-1601. If you’re interested in the final session of Drs. White and Wyatt’s Orthodontics in Today’s Dental Practice – Concepts and Tech-niques , it will be held May 20 – 21 in Dallas. Come learn from two of our most experienced instructors during this two-day lecture and participation course. (16 credit hours) For assistants… Robin Schmid-bauer will conduct an Advanced Straight-Wire course in Atlanta June 10-12. This program is an excellent follow-up for assistants who have previously taken Kay Gerety’s Basic Assistants Course and is designed to meet the needs of practices which are currently using Straight-Wire mechanics and would like to expand the duties of the assistant(s). (13 credit hours) Offered in conjunction with the last two sessions of Dr. David Jack-son’s Next Steps , August 12-14 and September 9-11 in Dallas, will be The Empowered Advanced course for assistants . This two-session Level II course is hands-on and covers placement of appli-ances, accentuated curves in arch wires, cross arch elastics, long liga-tures for anchorage, and the busi-ness side of orthodontics! (20 credit hours per session) In June, Dr. Dave will be taking his Connection Update to beauti-ful Cabo San Lucas, Mexico! The subject for this Update Weekend will be Interceptive Orthodon-tics . This course will be three half-day sessions covering the many uses of utility arch wires, as well as expansion and repositioning appli-ances and retention after Phase I. Join Dr. Dave in Cabo June 9-11! (12 credit hours) Speaking of going international, Dr. Chris Baker will begin her second Mastership Orthodontics Course in Dubai, United Arab Emirates June 30-July 5. For infor-mation on this five-session compre-hensive course, contact Dr. Baker at drchrisbaker@ymail.com. Back in the States, Dr. Baker is offering a weekend iOrtho Course – Interception Orthodontics . Why “iOrtho”? Because the iPad will be used for accessing cutting-edge diagnostic services and for several exercises during the course of this two-day seminar, AND because every participant will receive an iPad after completing the program! Join Dr. Baker in Balti-more July 22-23 for this dynamic course! (13 credit hours) And if you couldn’t make it to Orlando in February for the Early Treatment for the Pediatric and General Dentist , Dr. Ed Gonzalez is offering his highly successful two-day course again August 5-6. The weekend will cover diagnosis, treatment planning, and early Phase I Orthodontics. Bring the family to Orlando and enjoy the Disney and Universal proper-ties! (14 credit hours) Stay abreast of AOS courses on www.orthodontics.com! The American Orthodontic Society 2011 Officers & Directors President & Board Examiner Chris Baker, RN, DMD President-Elect Mitchell S. Parker, DDS Vice President Juan J. Solano, DDS Secretary-Treasurer W. Edward Gonzalez, Jr., DMD Immediate Past President & JAOS Co-Editor Jordan J. Balvich, DMD Board of Directors Azita Anissi, DDS Juan C. Echeverri, DDS Debra Ettle-Resnick, DDS Robert G. Gerety, DDS Joseph M. Haack, DDS Michael J. Newman, DDS David M. Thorfinnson, DDS William E. Wyatt, Sr., DDS Board of Examiners Jordan Balvich, DMD Debra Ettle-Resnick, DDS W. Edward Gonzalez, Jr., DMD, P.A David W. Jackson, DDS Joseph R. Schmidbauer, DDS Executive Director Thomas N. Chapman, CAE JAOS Editor Greg Cannizzo, DDS Dr. Baker Instructing her Dubai students. 44 May/June 2011 JAOS
Journal of the American Orthodontic Society May-June 2011: Page 44
