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OCTOBER 10-12
Join us for our biggest and best MOPC yet!
We’re going BIG for our 6th Anniversary Meeting:
- 500+ Colleagues
- 50 Exhibits
- 25 Speakers
- Up to 20 CE Credits!
- Ortho/Pedo Pre-Conference: How to Make Your Practice Recession and Pandemic Proof by Working with a Pediatric Dentist
- Wild West Party with Live Music from the All-Orthodontist Band, RELAPSE!
- All Food and Drink Included
- Group ID: 24148
- Attendee Password: 24980253
- Group Contact Password: MOPCONFERENCE
Speakers
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Keynote Speaker
Dr. Grant Collins
The Braces Guy
Words Matter: Set Your Team Up for Success With These 10 Powerful Phrases
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Dr. Kyle Fagala
Digital Marketing Pearls for the Ortho/Pedo Practice
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Dr. Brian Anderson
Make Your Practice Recession & Pandemic Proof by Working With a Pediatric Dentist
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Dr. Geoffrey Sudit
A Force For More
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Dr. Chris Teeters
Make Your Practice Recession & Pandemic Proof by Working With a Pediatric Dentist
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Dr. Bryan Lockhart
Navigating the Crowded Clear Aligner Market: an in-depth Look at Angel Aligner's Unique Approach
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Dr. Courtney Dunn
How Our Orthodontic Study Club Changed Our Practices and Lives for the Better
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Dr. Isaak Yelizar
Mastering Complexity With Angel Aligner: Precision, Efficiency, and Patient Comfort
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Dr. Messias Rodrigues
How to Solve All Kinds of Malocclusions by Just Looking at Three Premises
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Dr. Sheldon Salins
Unveiling the Power of Your Practice
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Dr. Alyssa Carter
Penny Wise, Pound Foolish: Strategies to Build and Scale an Orthodontic Practice in Today's Business Climate
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Dr. Scott Law
Get Out of Your Own Way: Lessons in Effective Delegation
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Dr. Tito Norris
Maximizing Digital Workflow Efficiency
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Dr. Kelly Morgan
How Our Orthodontic Study Club Changed Our Practices and Lives for the Better
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Dr. Jared Blacker
Treating Patients and Gaining Acceptance with Invisalign Palatal Expander™
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Dr. Melanie Wang
Eliminating Boomerang Tasks and Branding for Success With uLab
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Dr. Lisa Alvetro
Eureka! In Search of Excellence in Patient Care & Comfort
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Dr. Morghan Teeters
Make Your Practice Recession & Pandemic Proof by Working With a Pediatric Dentist
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Jill Allen
Who's Your Who?
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Tracy Martin
Boosting Practice Profits by Engaging Millennials and Gen Z: Strategies for Success
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Flint Geier
How to Create a Practice That’s in a Category of One
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Jason Harris
You're Given $1M--How Should You Invest It?
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Gary Salman
Brace Yourself for Cyber Threats: Cybersecurity Strategies for Orthodontic Professionals
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Joshua Johnson
Mastering the art of Tax strategy and asset protection
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Harrison Bagdan
How to Grow Your Practice Like Never Before and Help More People Get What They Want
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Kelsey Royce
Words Matter: Set Your Team Up for Success With These 10 Powerful Phrases
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Scott Hansen
Next-Gen Practice Growth: AI's Impact on New Patient Acquisition
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James Bonham
Simplify Simple Retreats: A 1-2-3 Digital Workflow for Profitable In-House Aligners
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Dr. Rick O’Neil
POWERFULLY PRECISE. THE NEXT INNOVATION IN ALIGNER ATTACHMENTS
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Amanda Floyd
Simple Strategies for Growth
Schedule
Thursday, October 10
Ortho/Pedo Pre-Conference:
How to Make Your Practice Recession & Pandemic Proof by Working With a Pediatric Dentist
Friday, October 11
Saturday, October 12
![Michelle Shimmin](/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Michelle-Shimmin-HEADSHOT-EMCEE.webp)
EMCEE
Michelle Shimmin
Michelle Shimmin is an International lecturer, trainer and consultant who has been in the field of orthodontics since 1990, working as a Registered Dental Assistant, teaching orthodontic assisting, marketing, financials, treatment coordinating and practice management. Michelle travels the country and helps transform orthodontic offices on their systems to promote training, growth, and success through a comprehensive practice approach.
She is now considered one of the most sought-after trainers with many lecture events a year, both domestic and international, including the 2014, 2016, 2018 and 2022 Align Ortho Summit, AAO, PCSO, HSO, SCAO, TIO and many others. She has also recorded Ask the Expert webinars for Align and authored articles for publications such as Bentson Copple’s reSource and Colle + McVoy’s Global Teen Edge Newsletter.
Entertainment
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RELAPSE
Friday Night Pearls Party Included:
The Wild Wild Best!
Join us with your team and colleagues for the Mother of all House Parties at Dr. Teeters’ 3 Acre Mountaintop Property for a delicious Tex Mex Dinner, Open Bar, Casino Games, Mechanical Bull Riding, Smokeless Fire Pit, Western Games, Rope Climb Challenge, DJ, and 2 Hours of Live Music from the all-orthodontist band, RELAPSE! Party bus shuttle services will be provided.
RELAPSE consists of the following practicing Orthodontists:
- Dr. Akash Pandya - Vocals
- Dr. Douglas R. Shaw - Vocals
- Dr. Jacquee Schieck - Bass, Vocals
- Dr. Chris Teeters - Guitars, Vocals
- Dr. Kyle Fagala - Drums, Vocals
- Dr. Brian Anderson - Keyboards
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THE BITESTRAIGHT BOYS
What more could your team want than to see a gathering of the most handsome men in orthodontics sing and dance in a boy band?
The BiteStraight Boys feature Drs. Andy Sarpotdar, Maz Moshiri, Doug Shaw, Akash Pandya and Brian Anderson. Get ready for an evening of fun and nostalgia as this gathering of talent perform songs from the 90’s boy band era.
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DR. ALEX LAYTON
Alex Layton is a guitarist/singer/songwriter from Boston, MA, and a recent graduate from an orthodontics residency at Harvard in 2024. His musical interest lies mainly in Blues, Rock, and Pop, where he draws influence from the likes of John Mayer, Eric Clapton, and Matchbox Twenty. He attended Berklee College of Music as a student of guitar and had one of his songs played on the radio in 2014 before changing careers and pursuing dentistry. He currently lives and practices orthodontics in Los Angeles with his fiancée Ali, who is finishing up her orthodontics residency at UCLA.
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