Around Town

Townie Meeting Founders Dr. Tarun “T-Bone” Agarwal (left)
and Dr. Sameer “Socalsam” Puri



Greetings Townies!
We are presently gearing up for the 2010 Townie Meeting at the Mirage Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, and we cannot wait to see you there! This year promises to be another unforgettable experience, with great education, unparalleled entertainment and genuine camaraderie. Registration has gone through the roof this year! We welcome all of our Townie Meeting “newbies” as well as our faithful Townie Meeting regulars – get ready for an outrageous weekend! Townie Meeting Fever has already hit the Dentaltown.com message boards. DT posters have been joking and reminiscing about past Townie Meetings and they’re all getting psyched up for this year’s get-together. Trust us, if you haven’t registered yet, you should! This is one event you do not want to miss!

Every year we strive to provide you with top-notch continuing education programs. Our goal has always been to create a curriculum that faithfully relates to the everyday dental practice owner and team. By selecting speakers who are practice owners or work in practices, we’ve found that attendees are more receptive to new procedures and the cutting edge information that is presented, which can be applied Monday morning and impact the bottom line. The course format is relaxed and attendees are always encouraged to interact with the speakers. We will kick off, with a presentation from the knowledgeable and entertaining founder of Dentaltown, Dr. Howard Farran, followed by a grand-slam speech by tennis player Roger Crawford who Sports Illustrated calls one of the most accomplished physically challenged athletes in the world.

We offer great ways to increase your revenue with seminars from unique presenters like Dr. Ryan Swain from Six Month Smiles who will be offering his course at a discounted price on Wednesday, April 14 (exclusive to Townie Meeting attendees). We’re also hosting an Asset Protection workshop, which will teach you how to prevent and protect against lawsuits – available only to dentists and their spouses. We’re also offering a hands-on workshop, Mastering Posterior Direct Resins, presented by Dr. Jason Smithson. Personally, we feel this year’s entire speaker line-up is quite exceptional. If you’d like to learn more about what we have to offer, visit www.towniemeeting.com to read all of our speakers’ biographies and course descriptions.

Townie Meeting is showcasing four fabulous social events that are included in your registration fee. Be sure to arrive in Vegas in time to attend the CareCredit Wine & Cheese Reception, 6 p.m.-8 p.m., Wednesday, April 14, at the Calypso Court, located across from the Terry Fator Theatre in the Mirage. This is the perfect time to pick up your meeting credentials, meet new Townies and visit with old friends. The opening party is always at the top of our attendees “must-attend” events. The Townie “I Love the 80s” Opening Party, sponsored by Millennium Dental Technologies, will be held Thursday, April 15, at the Dolphin Encounter in the Mirage. Every year the costumes get increasingly imaginative, so be sure to pull out your hammer-time parachute pants, flash dance outfit (or maybe even consider starting to grow your mullet now). Between 5:30 p.m.-7 p.m. on Friday, April 16, the Exhibitor Happy Hour will be in full swing. You will be able to visit with the exhibitors in a relaxing atmosphere and have your Cold Hard Cash Giveaway entry card stamped to be eligible to enter the contest. The drawing for the Cold Hard Cash will be held at noon on Saturday, April 17, during the Beer Bash & Closing Toast.

On a competitive note, our official Director of Tournaments, Dr. Glenn Hanf, would like to challenge attendees to “go for broke” and play in both the Townie Golf Tournament (Wednesday, April 14) and Townie Texas Hold’em Poker Tournament. These events are always very popular, well attended and offer great prizes. The Third Annual Townie Texas Hold’em Poker Tournament, sponsored by Sirona Dental Systems, will be just like the World Series of Poker with dealers, spectators, cameras, cash prizes... except it’s entirely populated with Townies! The first round of the tournament begins Friday, during the lunch break, and the championship round will take place during the Exhibitor Happy Hour, Friday evening.

The Townie Meeting exhibit hall is unlike typical dental meeting exhibit halls, due to the fact that we limit the number of booths to give the attendees the opportunity to meet all the vendors and form relationships with dentistry’s top companies. The exhibit hall will open 7 a.m. on Thursday. Be sure to visit the Dentaltown Lounge, located in the center of the exhibit hall where you can kick back and relax on the sofas, check e-mail and visit with the Dentaltown team. We would like to personally thank all of our sponsors and exhibitors for their continued support; you make Townie Meeting happen.

If this is your first Townie Meeting, a word of advice: rest up, because you don’t want to miss one minute! Townie Meeting is a very up-tempo, high-energy meeting and we promise you will enjoy the entire weekend. Also, if you see us walking around, please introduce yourself to us, we always want to meet new Townies. See you in Vegas!

Sameer (Socalsam) & Tarun (T-Bone)
Founders of Townie Meeting

Townie Meeting Exhibitors (*Denotes a sponsor)
1-800-DENTIST, 3M ESPE, 6 Month Smiles, AMD Lasers, Apex Dental Materials, Biolase Technology, Inc., Brasseler USA, Burbank Dental, Captek, CareCredit*, DentalBanc, Demandforce, Inc., DentLight, Dental Technology Consultants, Dentaltown*, Dentrix – Henry Schein Practice Solutions, Diatech, Discus Dental, LLC, Dr. Melkers’ Seminars, Evolve Dental Technologies, Inc., Glidewell Laboratories, Henry Schein Dental, Isolite Systems, Ivoclar Vivadent, Inc., Kettenbach, Lp, Keating Dental Arts, Millennium Dental Technologies*, New Patients, Inc.*, Oco Biomedical, Inc., Practice Cafe, LLC, PracticeBooster, PracticeWorks/Kodak Dental Systems, RGP Dental, Inc., Scheduling Institute, Sesame Communications, SICAT GmbH & Co. KG, Sirona Dental Systems*, Smile Reminder, elevox, Triodent Corporation, Ultradent Products, Inc., Ultralight Optics, Vident, Vista Dental, VOCO America, Inc., Yodle Dental
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