Winter Conference 2025
Sponsored Lunch & Learns
Come and check out the valuable product demonstration that our sponsors have organized for the ultimate hands-on attendee experience! Attendees of this session will also be treated to lunch during the session. Be sure to click on the registration link provided to attend.
DentalMonitoring – Optimizing Orthodontic Practice: Efficiency, Digital Innovation, and Patient-Centered Care
This presentation, led by Dr. Dan Bills, explores the intersection of efficiency, digital innovation, and patient-centered care in modern orthodontic practices. Participants will gain insights into optimizing clinical operations, streamlining workflow, and enhancing patient management for greater practice efficiency. Dr. Bills will also delve into the integration of cutting-edge digital tools, including remote monitoring systems, highlighting their role in transforming orthodontic care. Additionally, the lecture will focus on strategies to elevate the patient experience, emphasizing effective communication, a welcoming office environment, and personalized treatment approaches to foster patient satisfaction and loyalty.
Friday, January 24 | 12:10 pm – 1:20 pm | Calusa 5
Speaker:
Dr. Dan Bills
Legally Mine – Safeguarding Wealth: Lawsuit Prevention and Tax Strategies
Legally Mine will show you how to stop the threat of lawsuits before they ever get started by protecting your assets in time tested and proven legal structures. These same structures allow us to help our tax attorneys save what you would normally pay in income taxes. These are little known tax helps that significant case history and have stood the test of time.
Friday, January 24 | 12:10 pm – 1:20 pm | Calusa 3
Speaker:
John Kekel
WildSmiles/Specialty Appliances – Modernizing Your Practice: Leveraging Digital Workflows and Designer Braces for Effective Phase One Treatment and Practice Growth
Looking for a proven success plan to combat decreasing ortho starts and increasing competition? Join Davin Bickford from WildSmiles as he reveals specific pain points plaguing practices and uncovers easy solutions to leverage proven experiential engagement strategies to increase referrals, starts, and ultimately revenue! Discover how WildSmiles’ partnership with Specialty Appliances brings a unique product offering to seamlessly integrate your digital workflow for increased efficiences and profitability. Arlen Hurt will delve into the advantage of 3D Indirect Bonding and other innovative solutions from Specialty Appliances designed to reduce chair time and drive practice growth. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how to elevate your practice through experiential branding and cutting-edge technology.
Friday, January 24 | 12:10 pm – 1:20 pm | Calusa 4
Speakers:
Davin Bickford
Arlen Hurt
uLab Systems – In-Office Digital Workflow Innovations: digital indirect bonding, 3D printed aligners and more! Where flexibility meets control for your bracket and aligner cases
Hear the latest innovations from the uLab platform from a clinician who closely collaborated with our engineers to bring innovations to market. Learn how to optimize your digital workflows from brackets to aligners. Use one platform to plan a patient’s entire journey whether you use brackets, combo treatment planning, hybrid appliances, or complex aligner cases. Choose to print in-office or order uSmile aligners for delivery in your custom branded packaging. The uLab ecosystem can do it all for you. Your office. You’re in control.
Saturday, January 25 | 12:10 pm – 1:20 pm | Calusa 3
Speaker:
Dr. Rooz Khosravi, DMD, PHD, MSD
Invisalign® – Little smiles, big results with Invisalign® Palatal Expanders and Invisalign First™ treatment
Properly timed orthodontic treatment can prevent growth and development issues in young patients, improving bite, tooth position, and creating more space for teeth. Advances in digital orthodontics offer effective, comfortable, and minimally invasive solutions to meet this need. In this lunch and learn, discover the benefits of interceptive treatment with the Invisalign® Palatal Expander System and Invisalign First™ clear aligners. Participants will gain a comprehensive understanding of the clinical evidence behind these options for early intervention in orthopedic and orthodontic arch expansion, setting the foundation for healthy, functional smiles in young patients.
Saturday, January 25 | 12:10 pm – 1:20 pm | Calusa 5
Speakers:
Dr. Kent Morris, DMD
Voxel Dental – Direct 3D-Printing Clear Aligners: The Future is Now
Learn how your practice can increase production, reduce cost, and improve efficiency by printing your own clear aligners in-office. The Voxel Dental and LuxCreo teams will guide you through the entire workflow, illustrating how you can go from print to finished aligner in just 2 hours. In this course you’ll:
Have a Q & A session with a direct-print aligner workflow trainer
Learn the differences between direct print, outsourcing and in-house clear aligner workflow
Discuss the types of cases that can managed with direct-print aligners
See a comparison between direct-print and thermoforming aligner technologies
View digital workflow of the iLux Pro System, from print of aligners to aligner post-processing
Saturday, January 25 | 12:10 pm – 1:20 pm | Calusa 4
Speakers:
Mark Bacino, VP of Orthodontic Solutions at Voxel Dental
Holly Hennington, 3D Printing Trainer at Voxel Dental