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Las Vegas—This year’s Annual Session offers more than 60 hands-on workshops designed to give dental professionals a chance to learn techniques they can bring back to their practice to improve patient care and the bottom line and those who register by Sept. 9 can save on fee course rates.

Some of this year’s most exciting workshops include:

• Mastering Rotary Endodontics: How To Be Safe, Simple and Super-Efficient, by Dr. John West, Oct. 10, 1-3:30 p.m., Course 5211;
• Fabricating the Anterior Bite Plane Appliance, by Dr. Gary DeWood, Oct. 10, 8-10:30 a.m., course 5204 or 1-3:30 p.m., course 5214;
• Lingerie of the Smile? Yes—Incisal Translucency!, by Dr. Corky Willhite, Oct. 10, 1-3:30 p.m., course 5212;
• Esthetic and Functional Treatment Planning: Making It Simple, by Dr. Bo Bruce, Oct. 11, 8-10:30 a.m., course 6203;
• Posterior Preparations for CAD/CAM, by Drs. Gary DeWood, Steve Ratcliff and Lee Ann Brady, Oct. 11 8-10:30 a.m., course 6208;
• Porcelain Veneers and Supra-Gingival Dentistry: Easy, Predictable Results and Patient Satisfaction, by Dr. Jose-Luis Ruiz, Oct. 11, 8-10:30 a.m., course 6210;
• The New Art of Endodontics: The Hands-On Workshop, by Dr. L. Stephen Buchanan, Oct. 11, 1-3:30 p.m., course 6211;
• Are You Ready for the Two New Rs in Endodontics? Rotary Instrumentation and Resin-Bonded Obturation, by Dr. John Olmsted, Oct. 12, 8-10:30 a.m., course 7201 or 1-3:30 p.m., course 7211;
• There’s No Such Thing as Too White, by Shannon Pace, Oct. 12, 8-10:30 a.m., course 7210 (for dentists, dental assistants and dental hygienists);
• Keep Your Edge: Sharpening Scalers and Curets, by Sherry Burns, Oct. 13, 8-10:30 a.m., course 8203 (for dentists, dental assistants and dental hygienists).

For more information or to register for these or other hands-on workshops, log on to ada.org/session.

New techniques: Participants at an ADA Annual Session workshop in October 2010 get some hands-on experience at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando. Photo by EZ Event Photography.