Offered at Yankee 2026
Yankee Breakfast Club
Introducing the first Yankee Breakfast Club, proudly presented by The Yankee Study Club. Attend a special session featuring three distinguished Yankee speakers as they provide valuable insights and highlight key takeaways from their presentations delivered earlier in the week—an ideal opportunity for those who were unable to attend the initial sessions.
*Open to all Yankee attendees.
Spilling the Tea: Secrets to Team Success
Attention, dental professionals! We all know what it feels like to be unfulfilled, lose sight of our purpose, or be ready to throw in the towel. It’s time to break free from these chains and unleash the power of our curiosity! Delve into various techniques to manage stress, communicate effectively in challenging scenarios, use motivational interviewing techniques, and more.
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Dental Office Manager’s Advantage
Spend the day with renowned speaker Debra Engelhardt-Nash as she equips office managers and team leaders with the skills needed to drive team success and practice growth. Learn how to manage team dynamics, improve communication, resolve challenges, and cultivate a high-performing, collaborative culture. Walk away with proven strategies and a personalized action plan to lead with purpose and elevate your team.
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The Assistant’s Edge
Spend the day with Erin Hendricks, RDA, in these engaging and interactive programs presented in collaboration with the ADAA, designed to elevate dental assistants both personally and professionally. Through real-world scenarios, group activities, and practical guidance, attendees will strengthen leadership and communication skills, explore career advancement opportunities, and gain the confidence to become influential, valued members of the dental team.
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Hygiene Experience
Spend the day with Jo-Anne Jones, RDH, as she delivers two impactful courses designed for the Dental Hygienist to elevate your clinical expertise and patient care. Through compelling stories and evidence-based insights, attendees will learn to recognize early signs of oral/oropharyngeal cancer and embrace a greater role in addressing the oral-systemic health connection, transforming routine care into life-changing interventions.
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The Dawson Academy
Delve into the fundamentals of functional occlusion. Designed to elevate your dental practice, this course offers a comprehensive integration of foundational occlusal principles with cutting-edge workflows. Beyond mastering the intricacies of esthetic dentistry, this course provides practical strategies to reduce insurance dependency, ensuring a robust bottom line.
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Dental Sleep Medicine
Ready to expand your impact and elevate your practice? Our dental sleep apnea courses are designed to give you the tools to recognize, manage, and treat obstructive sleep apnea. Learn how to integrate dental sleep medicine into your practice and help patients achieve better sleep and better health.
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Spear Education
This two-day course will explore the essentials of treatment planning and implant restorative design for the patient with terminal dentition and/or a fully edentulous condition. It will provide guidelines that can be easily implemented in practice in order to help interdisciplinary communication between the restorative dentist, the surgeon, and the laboratory.
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Dentistry’s Got Talent
This special edition of Dentistry’s Got Talent, presented by The Dental Festival, is not your average lecture—it’s a TED Talk–style, high-energy speaker competition where top dental professionals go head-to-head, sharing their boldest marketing strategies in just minutes.
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The Esthetic Track
Minimally invasive treatments. Whether you’re just starting out or looking to refine your esthetic expertise, our courses offer the tools and knowledge to deliver exceptional, natural-looking results your patients will love.
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TechTalk
Discover the cutting-edge technologies reshaping dental care in these programs featuring two dynamic sessions. Drs. Maxine Feinberg and Richard Huot will demystify the present and future of AI in dentistry, while Dr. Deeba Kashtwari will explore the powerful role of CBCT in diagnosis and treatment planning. Attendees will gain practical insights into AI tools, 3D imaging, and how to integrate these innovations into their practices.
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