AGpO MEMBERSHIP NEWS Austin is Site of 2020 Annual Meeting With Many Educational Opportunities I would like to invite everyone to AGpO’s 2020 Annual Meeting in my home town, the live music capitol of the world--Austin, Texas--on September 24-26. Mark your calendars! Our annual meeting will be held at the Interconti-nental Stephen F. Austin hotel, right in the heart of downtown near many music venues and the world famous Sixth Street Entertainment District. Austin is a colorful and playful place with a motto of 'Keep Austin Weird' so there is lots to see and experience. The meeting will feature a lecture on the mechanics of tooth movement from orthodontic specialist Eric Lowenhaupt, DDS and recognizing and correcting developing malocclusions from Texas A&M Orthodon-tic School Professor Peter Buschang, Ph.D. The popular Assistant’s Course for auxiliaries featuring Dr. Charles Young will be held on July 30-August 1 in Plano, Texas at the Renaissance Plano Legacy West. For your convenience we will also be offering our Advanced Orthodontics Course featuring Dr. Jeffery Gerhardt on July 31 –August 1 on the same weekend and at the same hotel as the Assis-tant’s Course.Start your office Ronald B. Cass DDS, planning now! FAGD, DAGPO AGpO President I am so proud of the AGpO organization that I have been a member of for 33 years. Charlie Yates, in 1987, had a passion to teach the evidence-based science of orthodontics to his fellow dentists and he had the insight to establish a teaching organization that now has 17 hands-on training residencies in cities across the United States and Canada. He surely would be thrilled to see his work expanding! So, you can see we are continuing Dr. Yates' legacy of advancing 'hands on' orthodontic education and our 2020 Annual Meeting in Austin will bring us together for more orthodontic insights and pearls. There is so much to understand about providing orthodontic care for our patients. We need to get together and share our knowledge. See you in Austin! Ronald Cass, DDS, FAGD DAGPO Register for Popular Three-Day Dental Assistant’s Course Dr. Charles Young will be teaching the Academy’s three-day Dental Assistant Course in Plano, TX this summer. The course will be held July 30–August 1, 2020 at the Renais-sance Legacy West hotel in Plano, Texas. This course is intended for assistants with little orthodontic training as well as a refresher course for more experienced assis-tants. The course will give the chair-side dental assistant a better understanding of orthodon-tics and the Differential Straight Arch (Tip-Edge) Technique. Dental assistants will be work-ing in pairs on study casts from ing 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 additional supplies that will be needed from your office will be sent with course confirmation. Mark your calendars now and call the Academy at 1-800-634-2027 and speak to Adam or Jennifer to reserve your space for this popular yearly course. your office along with typodonts from the Academy. Assistants will learn how to apply brackets, bands and auxiliaries using the Tip-Edge System. Dr. Young will cover the Tip-Edge stages of treatment, trac-www.orthodontics.com Spring 2020 43
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