AGpO MEMBERSHIP NEWS Educational Opportunities Abound As I sit here on a cold snowy Iowa evening, listen-ing to Super Tuesday results on TV, I am hearing one of our candidates saying "Let’s Make America Great Again". I believe as members of AGpO we make not only America great but the health and lives of our patients great as well through our better understanding of comprehensive dentistry. Each of us has taken on the responsibility to better our patients' health and well being through orthodontic treatment. The AGpO continues to help us achieve this through our excellent educational programs and meet-ings. These upcoming courses and meetings include: Early Treatment Course -Austin, TX Instructor: Dr. Keith Wilkerson Starts April 15, 2016 Collierville Refresher -Collierville, TN Instructor: Dr. Charles Young Starts April 23, 2016 Canadian Refresher -Beyond the 12 Toronto, ON -Canada June 10-11, 2016 Advanced Tip-Edge -Sugar Land, TX Instructor: Dr. Jeffrey Gerhardt Steven Bradley, DDS June 24-25, 2016 AGpO President 2016 Annual Meeting -Plano, TX Featuring: Drs. Gerry Sampson, Ron Austin, and Peter Buschang September 15-18, 2016 I guarantee that our Annual Meeting featured speaker, Dr. Gerry Sampson, will be very entertaining as well as educational. Let’s make America great again by taking the time to improve our orthodontic treatment skills by attend-ing these great courses and meetings. As Pablo Picasso once said "I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it" These courses and meetings are meant to give you that opportunity to learn how to make the orthodontic treatment that you bring to your patients the best in your town, state and country. Steven P. Bradley, DDS Sign Up For Popular 3-Day Dental Assistant Course Dr. Charles Young will be teach-ing the Academy's three-day Dental Assistant Course in Plano, TX this summer. The course will run from July 21-24, 2016 at the Marriott Legacy Town Center. This 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-iaries using the Tip-Edge System. Dr. Young will cover the Tip-Edge stages of treatment, tracing of cephalomet-ric 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, a straight shooter and a carousel dispenser (a value of over $300 for these items alone). A list of additional supplies needed from your office will be sent with course confirmation. Call the Academy at 1-800-634-2027 to reserve your space for this very popular yearly course. www.orthodontics.com Spring 2016 45
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