AAO Well-Being and Self-Care

Orthodontists are being asked to leave residency hitting the ground running. Planning and preparing for a successful career in Orthodontics starts in residency with a learning curve beyond what can be provided in residency alone. There is no need to go it alone when there are mentors/career coaches available to guide you along your career path. Choosing to have someone with knowledge and experience to help you navigate the many decisions that go into a successful future can be invaluable. Having a mentor/career coach can pay significant dividends in the big picture of your professional and personal life. This course is designed to help you decide whether a mentor and/or career coach is the right choice for you.

Burnout has become a major concern worldwide, and it is crucial to recognize and prevent it due to the significant impact it can have. The World Health Organization has acknowledged burnout as an occupational phenomenon. This session will equip participants with comprehensive knowledge on burnout and its current state and prevention strategies. By attending, participants can move from struggling to thriving and achieve a healthier life-work integration.

There is ample evidence that a person’s appearance has an effect on their sense of well-being and how they feel about themselves, and how others perceive them. As far as function is concerned, the Wellness issues are a little less well defined, but in severe situations, patients’ health can be markedly compromised. In another sense, the practice of orthodontics has been undergoing rather significant changes, and the Wellness of our profession is of great importance to all orthodontists.

Fostering an environment of psychological safety and well-being through more compassionate communication can boost performance in healthy ways and enhance your bottom line. However, with so many interactions in the run of a day, it’s reasonable to expect that some are going to be difficult. Whether conversations are with staff, patients, partners or vendors, there are emotional intelligence (also called EQ) tactics that you can deploy to position conversations to go more smoothly for all involved. In this presentation, Awarding-Winning Leadership Communication Strategist and National Soft Skills Expert, Shakira M. Brown, will deliver valuable insights to manage every encounter and achieve the best results possible from them. Learn to use your EQ to connect and manage emotions of yourself and others, while modeling the behaviors you want to encourage. Depart armed with tools to avoid headaches that come from miscommunication and misunderstandings to present yourself empathetically with confidence.

In the modern workplace, we've seen a worrying rise in the number of people quitting their jobs for reasons like being burned out, not having enough room for growth, or wanting more freedom. As leaders and people in charge, it's our job to figure out why these things keep happening and come up with ways to stop them. During this presentation, Michael will talk about the real reasons why employees leave their jobs and how to stop these problems from happening in the future. Our research will focus on how to create a supportive workplace that cares about workers' emotional and mental health, encourages honest communication, and gives them chances to grow professionally. Also, we will emphasize how important it is to find and fix problems related to stress and overwork, as well as how to give our teams the tools they need to do their jobs well. Leaders and managers can build a work culture that makes employees more engaged, productive, and loyal by using the ideas in this session. This will make it less likely that employees will leave the company. Let's make a workplace where people feel loved, supported, and motivated to do their best.

The course will walk the audience through how we become our own biggest obstacle and the path we must consider taking to move past our lifelong survival patterns and into a new way of operating. See yourself from a different perspective, what you are truly capable of, and learn strategic solutions that can be employed in all domains of life. It will be less theory and more action towards results as proven by your peers. Body, Mind, Spirit, Family, and Business.

Harmony in the workplace cannot be achieved simply by bringing together individuals, no matter how competent they are. It implies optimal communication within the team, in order to avoid throwing sand into the cogs of a well thought organization.

What does it mean for a company when an employee resigns or takes sick leave because of a bad atmosphere? Or to a lesser extent, when the workforce lacks motivation and comes in with a recurrent bad mood?

Interpersonal communication and emotion management are the two pillars of building better, healthier and more fulfilling relationships with and between every single one of your team members. Working in a stress free environment makes it much easier for anyone to perform, focus and even enjoy one’s day at work.

Learning Objectives:

• Communicate more efficiently.
• Evaluate the importance of being precise while emitting a message.
• Control overreactions when receiving a message.

What if you were told your whole life that your dreams are not possible? Dr. Corinne Devin was able to conquer three dreams (orthodontists, pageantry, naval officer) that she had been told were impossible based on her personal areas of weakness that required her to challenge herself to overcome them. She was able to forge a path that allowed her to tackle several difficult opportunities. From them, she learned how to be a feminine leader in a male-dominated environment. She navigated her career and learned tools that she could bring to each area of her life. Dr. Devin will discuss the hardships and struggles she encountered along the way and how she conquered them.

Learning Objectives:

• Believe in yourself and not in what others tell you that you cannot do.
• Feel empowered that there is nothing you cannot figure out.
• Understand what life as a dentist in the Navy looks like.

Vernice "FlyGirl" Armour, America's First African American Female Combat Pilot presents this inspirational leadership and team building session (1 CE). Individuals have to be engaged to move forward and succeed! The key is giving the permission to engage from the inside out. Once that happens, you will be thinking with a Breakthrough Mentality and CLEARED HOT!

Learning objectives:

• Reignite the spark in your life professionally and personally ... burnout is real!
• Identify opportunities in the challenges and obstacles ... then drive toward solution
• Engage a “Breakthrough Mentality” that leverages the skills and talents of your entire team
• Lead through mentorship to transform team performance

Speaker Disclosure:
Consultant: Charitable Giving Resource Center, LLC

Length of session:
The session is scheduled for 75 minutes.

Continuing Education:
Each participant who completes the Webinar will earn 1.25 CE for the entire session.

Continuing Education Disclaimer:

This Continuing Education Program provides attendees with a relevant and rewarding continuing education experience. However, neither the content of a course nor the use of specific products in any program should be construed as indicating endorsement or approval of the views presented or the products used by the AAO or by any of the respective subsidiaries. Speakers are required to disclose to participants any financial, commercial or promotional interest in a product or company that may influence their presentations; however, the AAO shall not be liable for a speaker’s failure to disclose such interest.

American Association of Orthodontists is an ADA CERP Recognized Provider. ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual lectures or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry. Concerns or complaints about a CE provider may be directed to the provider or to the Commission for Continuing Education Provider Recognition at ADA.org/CERP.

Gary Zelesky (1.25 CE) - Gary asks and answers the following question, “what are the defining actions in moments of overwhelming challenges?"

You must know what really matters and have the courage to act. The landscape of our work lives has become increasingly demanding, presenting us with ever more complex challenges at a near-relentless pace. Add in personal or family needs, and it is easy to feel constantly overwhelmed. This effects work/life performance profoundly.

Feelings of being ineffective occur when the complexity of our world seems to surpass the complexity of our mind. Gary addresses with pinpoint accuracy the 4 attributes world class orthodontic practices implement daily ... Passion, Productivity, Profit and Pleasure. Take the time to re-energize with Gary during this complimentary webinar.

Learning Objectives:

• Passion: Learn the secrets of maintaining consistent team momentum even in times of mundane.
• Productivity: What is the key to practice efficiency the difference? What is the difference between staying busy or truly being intentional?
• Profit: Discover how to improve the bottom line financially and relationally.
• Pleasure: How to create a pleasurable working environment for the dental team and the clients they serve.

Speaker Disclosure:  None

Length of Session:  The session is scheduled for 75 minutes.

Continuing Education:
Each participant who completes the Webinar will earn 1.25 CE for the entire session.

Continuing Education Disclaimer:

This Continuing Education Program provides attendees with a relevant and rewarding continuing education experience. However, neither the content of a course nor the use of specific products in any program should be construed as indicating endorsement or approval of the views presented or the products used by the AAO or by any of the respective subsidiaries. Speakers are required to disclose to participants any financial, commercial or promotional interest in a product or company that may influence their presentations; however, the AAO shall not be liable for a speaker’s failure to disclose such interest.

American Association of Orthodontists is an ADA CERP Recognized Provider. ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual lectures or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry. Concerns or complaints about a CE provider may be directed to the provider or to the Commission for Continuing Education Provider Recognition at ADA.org/CERP.

Dr. Christina DiBona Pastan, DMD, RYT 300 (1.25 CE) We can’t pour from an empty cup and if we are not full mentally and physically we cannot bring our best selves to our personal life, professional practice and to the people we serve. Self-care is care for you and provided for you and in order to take care of others we need to take care of ourselves first. This presentation will focus on the demands of dentistry, the importance of self-care for the professional and simple ways to incorporate stress reducing and restoring practices to your personal and professional life.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the demands of Dentistry
• Define Self-Care and assess it’s importance
• Learn simple strategies to calm the mind and body
• Apply mind-body strategies for personal and professional development

Speaker Disclosure:  None

Length of session:
The session is scheduled for 75 minutes.

Continuing Education:
Each participant who completes the Webinar will earn 1.25 CE for the entire session.

Continuing Education Disclaimer:

This Continuing Education Program provides attendees with a relevant and rewarding continuing education experience. However, neither the content of a course nor the use of specific products in any program should be construed as indicating endorsement or approval of the views presented or the products used by the AAO or by any of the respective subsidiaries. Speakers are required to disclose to participants any financial, commercial or promotional interest in a product or company that may influence their presentations; however, the AAO shall not be liable for a speaker’s failure to disclose such interest.

American Association of Orthodontists is an ADA CERP Recognized Provider. ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual lectures or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry. Concerns or complaints about a CE provider may be directed to the provider or to the Commission for Continuing Education Provider Recognition at ADA.org/CERP.

Recent Studies reported in dental literature confirm that orthodontists are subject to a variety of stress-related physical and emotional problems. We will explore why this is the case and then what we can do to reduce stress in the orthodontic office. We will also explore different methods to find and maintain happiness. Lastly, I will recommend digital tools to optimize one’s time, leaving room for the things that are most important in our lives and practices.

Learning Objectives:

• Explore techniques to reduce stress in the dental office.
• Identify methods to find and maintain happiness.
• Utilize available digital tools to optimize your time.