The Yankee Dental Congress kicks off this Thursday at the Boston Convention Center, offering three days of lectures and hands-on sessions on the latest trends, technologies, and techniques. As you'd expect, the show will feature 500-plus vendor exhibits on the show floor. And as you'd expect, the DrBicuspid editorial team will be there from day one, filing reports throughout the week.
Presented by the Massachusetts Dental Society in cooperation with the dental societies of Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont, the Yankee Dental show is the largest dental conference in New England and the fifth largest in the United States.
Over 275 clinicians will deliver sessions on a broad range of topics, from efficient scheduling techniques, infection control, and periodontal trends, to esthetic dentistry, occlusion, and oral conscious sedation. In short, hundreds of meetings with useful information for every dentist. Click here for a complete schedule.
Lectures and hands-on workshops typically run about three hours and in case you can’t make it to that infection control seminar, don’t fret. Check for a repeat session at another time or on another day. For those truly pressed for time, there are the Minuteman lectures -- sixty minute sessions on a variety of clinical and business topics. And then there are all-day seminars like Team Development Day -- which is specifically designed for hygienists, dental assistants, and office personnel -- and specialty symposia on oral & maxillofacial surgery, pediatrics, endodontics, orthodontics, and periodontics.In keeping with tradition, most of the sessions offer CE credits. Some sessions will be recorded (audio only) and available on CD for $149. Check this site for details.
"Improving scientific and allied scientific programs will continue as we are working to bring in the 'best of the best' lecturers, new and innovative courses, and comprehensive hands-on courses", claims the show's official Web site. "As always, it is our goal at Yankee to offer you top-notch scientific programs, as well as programs that will benefit your practice management and your team." The DrBicuspid team will bring you daily updates on the latest and greatest from the show, including such hot topics as:
- Current trends in managing periodontal disease
- Improving practice profitability
- Posture pain and productivity in dentistry
- Picture-perfect quality radiographs
- Local anesthesia and sedation in 2008
- What's new in dental pharmacotherapy
- Rejuvenating your practice
- The role of dentistry in treating sleep apnea
- Anesthesia: Risks versus bad judgment ad how to stay out of trouble
- Microscopes in modern dentistry
To keep the approximately 28,000 attendees entertained, the show will also include a performance by Sheryl Crow, a luncheon with Geena Davis, and a kick-off party on Thursday.
