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2012 Annual Meeting Oct. 30 - Nov 2, 2012

Make your hotel reservations now for the 2012 Annual Meeting at the Silverado Resort in Napa, Calif.

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President's Message

Many of our members have shared with me the recent media reports about the growing number of people across the country who are seeking dental care in hospital emergency rooms. This trend alerts us to at least three important things:

  • There is a substantial amount of serious untreated mouth disease across the country.

  • We have not been successful in educating the public about preventing mouth disease

  • We are wasting the country’s resources by providing care in the most expensive way.

Oral health literacy is critical as a long-term solution to this problem.  Our work with the Partnership for Healthy Mouths, Healthy Lives and the Ad Council will help us address the literacy problem. Increased literacy will bring an awareness of need. Identification of that need will lead to an increased demand for dental services. We and our professional dental colleagues must prepare to meet those needs.

The Ad Council campaign will begin this summer. It will have a tremendous effect on literacy and identification of need. Now is the time to begin preparations to meet the demand that need will create.

-Gary

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Annual Meeting

Oct. 30 – Nov. 2, 2012
Silverado Resort & Spa
Napa, Calif.

Hotel Registration is now available.  Click here for more information.

International

FDI 2012 - 8/29 - 9/1
Dental Expo - 9/17-20
Dentech 2012 - 10/24-27
IDS 2013 - 3/12-16

Check out the many international tradeshow opportunities DTA offers.