Orthodontic Products Chief Editor Alison Werner talks to AAO President Dr. Ken Dillehay and Chris Bentson, Partner of Bentson Copple & Associates, about the recent AAO Winter Conference held in January. The first in-person AAO meeting since 2020, the conference was an opportunity for orthodontists at all stages of their career to not only gather information about how practice modalities are changing, but to ask questions of those peers who are leading the way. And this wasn’t a meeting purely focused on how OSOs are changing the practice landscape. It touched on how dual specialty practices—specifically pediatric dentistry and orthodontics—are gaining traction within the industry and how digital technology is changing the orthodontic practice.
In this interview, Dillehay and Bentson, who was a members of the Winter Conference planning committee, highlight the presentations and panels that most resonated with attendees and the questions that got everyone talking. And they remind viewers that AAO members can still access the meeting recordings if they didn’t get a chance to attend in January.
Dillehay closes out the interview talking about what AAO members can expect at the AAO Annual Session in Miami Beach in May, whether in-person or virtually, and offers advice for those planning to be there in Florida.
Listen here: “AAO Winter Conference Takeaways With Dr. Ken Dillehay & Chris Bentson” on Spreaker.