2023 Annual Meeting
Friday, February 24, 2023

7:30am-4:00pm

Meydenbauer Center, Bellevue, WA 

SCHEDULE

7:30am - 8:30am Breakfast, Check-In, Photobooth and Exhibits

8:30am - 11:30am  Morning session for doctors - Main Level, Center Hall A:

"It's All About the Flow: The Digital Workflow" Speaker: Dr. Jason Cope

8:30am - 11:30am  Morning Session for Team Members - Upstairs, Level 4, Rooms 404-406: "The Smart, Savvy, and Successful Practice" Speaker: LeeAnn Peniche

11:30am - 1:00pm Luncheon - WSSO General Meeting during lunch for doctors

Team members have the option to participate in table topic discussions, or freestyle with no set table topic discussions.  Please note your preference when you register.

1:00pm - 4:00pm Continued session for doctors - Main Level, Center A: 

"It's All About the Flow: The Digital Workflow" Speaker: Dr. Jason Cope

1:00pm - 3:00pm Continued session for Team Members - Upstairs, Level 4, Rooms 404-406: "The Smart, Savvy, and Successful Practice" Speaker: LeeAnn Peniche

"Debond! How to safely remove brackets, bands, and bonding resin from tooth surfaces" Speaker: Dr Geoff Greenlee

Course Description:

Speaker for Doctors

It's All About the Flow...The Digital Workflow – with Jason B. Cope, DDS, PhD, FACD

Have you ever thought that doing in-house aligners (IHA) is too much of a hassle or too expensive upfront to justify taking the leap? If you have, think again! Current technology provides today's orthodontist everything they need to get started at historically low costs and manage their own IHA production facility with their own brand that represents and builds their own reputation instead of an outside lab’s brand. Modern software allows us to maintain quality, while considerably reducing the expense of outsourcing labwork and delaying treatment starts or refinements. 

This presentation will introduce the major steps of the Digital Workflow utilizing In-House Aligner Fabrication as the example. Various cost examples and pros/cons of different systems will be presented to answer the question “is it worth going all in”. We will also cover the basics of setting up a digital lab as well as 3D printing. Multiple clinical examples will be used to demonstrate which clinical cases are most appropriate for in-house aligners. While many see the future of orthodontics as doomed by market disruption, it is actually an exciting time to reinvent ourselves and create even better experiences and outcomes for our patients. Welcome to the future of Orthodontics! Its bright, and more importantly, we are in control of it!

Learning Objectives - After this lecture, you will:

• appreciate the factors critical to implementing a digital workflow.
• understand how to setup a digital lab. 
• be able to evaluate important features of tooth movement software.
• appreciate what cases are most appropriate for in-house aligners.
• be able to understand the essentials of becoming your own aligner manufacturer.

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Speakers for Team Members
Administrative Team Members - morning and afternoon
Clinical Team Members - morning and afternoon (or in afternoon, Debonding workshop)

Morning Lecture - The Smart, Savvy & Successful Practice with LeeAnn Peniche

Join LeeAnn Peniche as she shares the expectations of the most complicated multigenerational orthodontic market in history.  She will share how to target, attract, and treat every generation from boomers to generations X, Y & Z. This course will focus on building a successful practice with an "on-brand team" that is committed to making a difference in patients' lives, communities and the world.  LeeAnn will share how to attain measurable results from the first point of contact through the final days of retention “and beyond" by utilizing smart systems and savvy judgment.

Learning Objectives:

• Provide a customized extraordinary patient experience
• Increase New Patient Exams & Starts
• Understand the “why” behind what we do

Afternoon Lecture - Dancing with Data with LeeAnn Peniche

The word "data" does not sound sexy or exciting.  Data has been known as the "big yawn" until today.  Join LeeAnn Peniche as she brings to life what your data means.  LeeAnn will share how to simplify statistics, turn numbers into a scoreboard for success and truly dance with your data. This course will show how the doctor, manager, department leads and team can identify strengths, weaknesses, and create a game plan for improvement and celebration.  LeeAnn will share how the numbers tell a story and when necessary, you can rewrite the ending.  We will review clinical success, scheduling, observation, marketing, case acceptance, staffing and recruiting.  This is so exciting!  No yawning here!

Learning Objectives:

• Identify strengths and weaknesses in each department
• Create custom benchmarks
• Build an executive team
• Increase New Patient Exams & Starts
• Understand the “why” behind what we do

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Afternoon speaker for Clinical Team Members
Debond!  How to safely remove brackets, bands, and bonding resin from tooth surfaces - lecture and workshop with Geoff Greenlee, DDS, MSD, MPH

This session is designed to provide the necessary background information to prepare orthodontic dental assistants to:

• Safely remove fixed orthodontic appliances
• Understand the evidence about patient comfort and enamel safety during bracket removal
• Safely remove bonding composite resin and polish enamel
• Understand and use a dental handpiece and rotary instruments
• Recognize risks and pitfalls during appliance removal

The Debond Workshop is back!  Please reserve your space!

Part of this session will be dedicated to hands-on training in safe appliance debonding and composite resin removal with a dental handpiece. Attendees will gain knowledge and skills preparing them to progress on to supervised training on patients with a licensed orthodontist at their office.