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ADA annual session continuing education Sept. 30-Oct. 4 will include a wide range of opportunities, from courses and workshops to live patient demonstrations and on-site competitions.

Participants can register for annual session and choose from more than 180 CE courses beginning March 31 at www.ada.org/goto/session. More than 60 percent of continuing education seats are free with registration.

In addition to traditional classroom-based courses and workshops, attendees can earn up to five-and-a-half hours of continuing education credit on the exhibit floor.

CE on-site includes the Live Operatory Center—a unique blend of product training and continuing education offered in high-tech environment. Introduced in 2008, the Live Operatory Center was the first of its kind in the dental meeting arena.

Adjacent to the Live Operatory Center will be the Competition Hub, featuring entries in four annual competitions: the 2009 Dental Office Design Competition, the ADA/DENTSPLY Student Clinician Research Program and two new competitions for 2009: the Adult Preventive Care Practice of the Year Competition and the Education Exchange (professional table clinics, redesigned). Annual session registrants are encouraged to participate in these competitions. More information is available at ADA365.org.

Offered in a high-tech classroom setting, the ADA’s innovative Education In The Round live patient learning environment allows attendees to see patient procedures performed with images captured on intraoral cameras and displayed close-up on 60-inch flat-screen monitors. This fully functional dental operatory offers a unique interactive experience between the speaker and attendees.

More than 40 hands-on workshops to learn cutting-edge procedures and techniques are also planned.

Participants who purchase the scientific program Multimedia Package for just $99 can access up to seven hours of self-study continuing education.

Registrants log on, read the related material, and complete four review questions. They receive the additional credit hour once the on-site course is completed. The Multimedia Package also offers online access to more than 100 courses with digitally captured audio synchronized to original slides for use after annual session (digitally captured courses are not eligible for ADA CERP CE credit).

The online speaker searchable database available at ADA.org, and the preliminary program, which can be to a computer desktop, both offer a user-friendly, searchable electronic format to help registrants identify the courses and topics that best meet their needs.

The June issue of The Journal of the American Dental Association will contain 75 pages of annual session content, including complete course descriptions.

Registrants can also request a print copy of the preliminary program by sending an e-mail to annualsession@ada.org.