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An Evening of Gold Marking A Decade of Changing Lives This entry was posted on 6/2/2010 1:30 PM and is filed under uncategorized. For a few hours next week, my colleagues and I at DOCS Education will set aside our daily routines and gather along with alumni, faculty, friends and family to celebrate our 10th anniversary. In 2000, I thought we’d be lucky if we could finish out two years of courses. When we met that milestone, I pushed ahead my best-case-scenario to five years. Well, here we are at 10 years and I’m no longer forecasting. Sedation dentistry, as taught by DOCS Education, is now mainstream dentistry. More than 20,000 dentists and their dedicated oral health teams have taken DOCS Education courses, which emphasize patient safety, comfort and excellence in dentistry. And that is cause aplenty for celebration. Sedation dentistry, I believe, has done more to enhance the lives of dental patients and their doctors in the past decade than any other dental protocol, technique, appliance or practice. Since our founding, more than two million Americans have embraced sedation dentistry– the great bulk of whom otherwise would have avoided dental care altogether or continued to approach each dental visit as if it were a trip to a torture chamber. Thanks to sedation dentistry, we’ve relieved these patients’ searing oral pain, prevented tooth and bone loss, healed infectious oral cavities, rebuilt bright and full smiles and renewed our patients’ affection and respect for our profession. But like the very best gifts, what we’ve imparted to our patients has given back to us as well. More than anything else, professional graduates of our various continuing education classes thank me for restoring the satisfaction to their work – for allowing them to treat patients safely and efficiently without having to suffer along with their patients’ emotional and physical pain. Less pain and less anxiety for patients translate into greater joy and fulfillment for their doctors. Which is why we’ve got plenty to fete. I do hope you’ll join us at our 10th Anniversary gala next week, if not in person, then at least in spirit. Those who can make it to Seattle will be treated to a gourmet evening of fond and humorous reminiscences and sneak peaks into the future, including the debut of DOCS Education’s very first sedation dentistry infomercial. The commercial will soon be available to help individual dental practices alert prospective patients to the availability of sedation dentistry in their communities. Our featured speaker will be Gary Hall, Jr., a five-time Olympic Gold Medalist and someone who knows from personal experience how to transform life’s many adversities into great successes. Others who will be on hand will include fellow DOCS Education founders, faculty members, current and former staff and, of course, gratified alumni. Yours truly will serve as the event’s master of ceremonies. The great thing about the Columbia Tower Club, where we are hosting our gala, is that it offers unparalleled, floor-to-ceiling 360-degree views of sprawling Seattle and Puget Sound – 76 stories below. On a special occasion such as our 10th Anniversary, it seems appropriate to gather atop the West Coast’s best vista – from which we can not only partake in the spectacle surrounding us, but also the path that brought us here and exciting road that lies ahead. re is still time to register for An Evening of Gold. For complete details contact your DOCS Representative at 800-921-1408. |