MAO Track

Touch Vs. Tech

Tina Bryne

Integrating technology into an orthodontic practice enhances efficiency and streamlines workflows, but it also poses the risk of diminishing the personal, high-touch care essential to success. Teams may face challenges such as adapting to new systems, disengagement, or over-reliance on automation, which can weaken patient relationships.

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Learning Objectives: 

• Explores key obstacles, including resistance to change and reduced personal engagement, while offering strategies to keep teams motivated and committed to delivering compassionate care. By ensuring technology complements—rather than replaces—human interaction, practices can preserve the trust and warmth that set them apart.

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What's HIPAA Got to do with it? HIPAA Compliancy and How it is Linked to Responsible Marketing

Sarah Ruff Gibson, MDA, COA, CDA

The goals of the lecture are to discuss HIPAA and its history (briefly), discover how dental practices can protect HIPAA and themselves in the digital age and learn how to market and promote yourself, your practice and your team with these guidelines.

 

Three Most Important Lessons Learned as a Navy Seal & How They will Improve Your Life

Chris Tyll

 

You Can't do That With Stock Braces! (1 CE)

Christine Bonebreak Jackson, DMD, MS

A digital treatment plan and custom bracket prescription can help you treat difficult cases in a way that stock brackets can’t. The power of a personalized appliance will be explored through a variety of case types including vertically challenged, surgical and canine substitution. Topics discussed will include the digital prescription submission, tips for digital treatment plan review, and treatment mechanics with a fixed digital appliance.

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Learning Objectives:

• How to fully customize all areas of a fixed appliance (slot size, hook selection, and more).

• Understand beneficial digital overcorrections and when to apply them.

• Clinical protocols to maximize treatment efficiency with a personalized prescription.

 

Conflict of Interest / Financial Disclosure: Pending review.

 

New Frontiers in Sleep-Disordered Breathing: Implications for the Orthodontic Practice (1 CE)

Thikriat Al-Jewair, DDS, MBA, MSc, MS, FRCD(C)

Sleep-disordered breathing remains frequently underdiagnosed. This presentation will explore the latest advancements in its detection and highlight practical, evidence-based strategies aimed at enhancing orthodontic clinical practice.

 

Learning Objectives:

• Explore the latest technological advancements for detecting sleep-disordered breathing.

• Discuss the integration of emerging tools in clinical workflows for improved patient outcomes.

• Review the latest evidence on orthodontic interventions for managing sleep-disordered breathing.

 

Conflict of Interest / Financial Disclosure: None

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