EXPLORER
Inside this issue:
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4 President’s Message
5 7 Ways to Compete with Dental
Service Organizations
6 Adult Patients with Perio
Problems and Orthodontic
Success
7 Disability Insurance Awareness
Month a Good Time to Consider
Future
8 What to Consider When Offering
Discount Dental Plans
Editor’s Corner
10 Labor Law Corner
Staff Impressions
11 What to Know About Influenza
Prevention and Control
12 How to Make Your Practice
Website a Patient Intake Machine
13 The Cloud and Dentistry
15 In Depth View
Dental School Student
16 Dear LADS
17 Oral Surgery: Should I Extract
That Tooth?
19 Study: Restorations, Aesthetic
Work Most Common Procedures
By General Dentists
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22
Classifieds
Spring 2018
Calendar of Courses
MONTH DATE MEETING/EVENT
April 14 Snack & Shred
16 Practice Management Bootcamp
21 Radiation Safety
24 Uses of Botulinum Toxins in Dentistry
27-28
May
12
17-19
June
CDA Cares
8-Hour Infection Control
CDA Presents
21 CPR
16 Radiation Safety
26 Making Orthodontics Predictable
and Esthetic
Explorer
published by
Los Angeles Dental Society
Editorial Staff
Sonia Molina, DMD, Editor
Teresa Chien - Executive Director
Officers
Fariba Kalantari, DDS - President
Sadegh Namazikhah, DMD - Treasurer
Welcome New Members
Pilseong Kim, DDS - President-Elect
Richard Hirschinger, DDS, MBA - Vice President
Adam Geach, DMD - Secretary
Michele Frawley, DDS - Immediate Past President
Los Angeles Dental Society Explorer