Dental conferences give you and your dental team the valuable opportunity to connect, learn, and grow professionally.
Start 2024 strong by choosing upcoming dental events that you and select members of your team will attend. Registration fees and travel expenses may seem like a big cost, but attending these events is truly a worthy investment in your dental business.
DCS loves attending dental conferences to stay abreast of where the industry is heading, and also to talk about our full-service revenue cycle management (RCM) services with dental professionals like you.
No matter what kind of dental business you run or your specialty, there’s a dental event you can attend that will help you learn more about running a successful and profitable dental practice or group.
Sounds good? Then read on, because we’re not only sharing 3 big reasons you should attend one or more dental conferences in 2024, we’re also sharing where you can find the right events for you and your team.
Reason #1. Networking opportunities
Dental conferences are a great place to meet up with other dental professionals.
When you connect with your peers, industry experts, and industry leaders, you’ll broaden your perspective and knowledge of the dental space.
“By networking, you may end up providing a new service that contributes to your dental practice growth. Networking is also crucial to finding new or additional roles. The relationships you build within the field may lead you to new opportunities that match your skills and interests.” — American Orthodontic Society
It’s valuable to hear how others are finding success, especially how they’re navigating nationwide events such as the ongoing repercussions of the 2020 pandemic, the healthcare staffing shortage, and inflation.
DCS staff and executives attend networking events in the dental space as well. Our experts always return with incredible stories of connecting with old friends — and making new ones — over the shared challenges in the dental industry. We’ve even met some of our favorite current customers at networking events.
For 5 tips on networking at dental conferences, visit our Learning Center.
DCS' booth at AADOM in 2023.
Reason #2. Stay updated with the latest dental industry trends
The dental industry has been changing rapidly the past few years, especially with the eruption of AI. It can be challenging to keep up with industry trends, especially when you’re focused on your day-to-day.
Attending dental conferences will help you stay abreast of dental industry happenings through formal talks and side events, and also the casual “water cooler” conversations where ideas and personal stories are swapped.
Technodent states:
“Keeping up with the latest trends is essential to the success of dental practices. Looking ahead, there are many innovations in development that will impact dental technology, patient experience, and practice management, and that will shape the future of dentistry.”
In this era of rapid transformation, it's not just about keeping up — it's about leveraging these trends to your advantage, so your dental practice can thrive.
It’s common at dental conferences to discuss the new technologies and resources that are helping dental businesses find success. And when you’re surrounded by peers experiencing similar challenges as you, you can discuss how you’ll leverage these resources together.
Live events offer the rare opportunity to ask industry leaders specific questions about the challenges you’re facing and how to overcome them. Access to experts who are attuned with where the industry is heading is invaluable — in fact, feel free to bring us your RCM questions, we’re happy to help.
Related: 5 dental industry trends and how your team can profit from them [Free Guide]
Reason #3. Continuing education credits and an enhanced dental career
Another huge reason to attend dental conferences is to receive continuing education (CE) credits. The trainings help you improve your dental care and grow your practice, while the CE credits help you meet dental license requirements.
Keep an eye out for dental conferences that include CE credit opportunities with your registration.
These trainings are designed to help grow your dental career. ”Growth” doesn’t have to mean adding multiple locations to your practice, by the way. It can also mean growing your patient base or expanding your service offerings.
The knowledge and expertise needed to grow your dental business can be found at these dental events — that’s what they’re for. But not only are the experts at conferences sharing new best practices with you, they’re sharing how to best implement these new strategies and tips, which will save you the time and trouble of trial and error.
Lean into these learning opportunities that will help you and your team stay up to date on how to best run your practice and tend to patients, and even expand your clinical knowledge.
Start with our Dental Industry Event Calendar to plan which dental conferences to attend
Now that you’re excited about looking into dental conferences, you’re probably thinking, “Where the heck do I even start?”
We’ve made it easy for you…
Visit our Dental Industry Events Calendar to browse dozens of 2024 events around the United States. There are events for all kinds of dental industry professionals and vendors, so there will certainly be one or two — or even a few — that are perfect for you.
And if you are hosting or attending an event that you don’t see on our calendar, use the form on the page to submit it to us, and we’ll add it to the list!
As a full-service RCM provider, we’ll be attending several of these events as well, so we hope to see you there. Check out our Dental Industry Events Calendar, and if you see us at one of those events, be sure to come say Hi.
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