This Week at AGD

September 15, 2025

Feature Story

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Exploring the Overlap of Personal and Professional Lives in Dentistry

Dentists lead full, busy professional lives. When you dedicate your days to patient care and practice management, it can be hard to leave your work chairside and in the office. The boundaries between the personal and the professional can quickly blur. How much overlap is too much? The answer to that question is highly individual.

News

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Impact of Different Beverage Solutions on Provisional Denture Materials

Consuming beverages with dyes and low pH values has a detrimental impact on more than just dental tissue; it can also expedite the degradation of resin-based restorative materials. A new study in General Dentistry examines the influence of different beverage solutions on provisional fixed denture materials.

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Fall Fellowship Review Course and Exam Registration Ends Next Week

Registration for the 2025 Fall Fellowship Review Course and Exam ends next Thursday, Sept. 25. If you’re working toward the AGD Fellowship Award, this is your chance to earn 16 CE credits during the two-day review course and take the exam the next day, while the information is still fresh.

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Apply for Fellowship, Mastership or LLSR

Complete all requirements and submit an application by Dec. 31 to be recognized with the Fellowship or Mastership award or Lifelong Learning and Service Recognition at AGD2026 in Las Vegas. Need CE? Explore the CE Directory, or browse live courses and the Online Learning Center.

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The Ethics of Well-Being — A Reimagined Professionalism

In this month’s Ethics column in AGD Impact, Dr. Carlos Stringer Smith dives deep into the myriad facets of professionalism in dentistry and how they might be reimagined to prioritize dentists’ self-care in ways that can benefit both practitioners and patients.

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AGD to Host Virtual Town Hall for Constituent Leaders, Members

The final virtual town hall meeting of 2025 will take place Sept. 17 at 7 p.m. CDT. This is an opportunity to learn more about what’s happening at AGD and for general dentists at the local level.

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Education Highlights

Upcoming Webinars

September 16, 2025: Social Media Strategies that Attract and Keep High-Value Patients

September 23, 2025: Navigating the Evidence for Caries Management: Fluorides and Alternatives

September 24, 2025: What’s in Your Water? A Guide to Dental Waterline Safety

September 25, 2025: Predictable Implantology in your Daily Practice

September 26-27, 2025: 2025 Fellowship Review Course and Exam

October 7, 2025: When Bad Things Happen to Good Implants

October 14, 2025: Orofacial Pain Disorders

October 23, 2025: Hidden Damage of Everyday Dentistry: Perfect Crowns, Bad TMJ

November 4, 2025: Occlusal Medicine: Why Haven’t You Been Taught This Stuff?

November 13, 2025: Alter the Tooth Life Cycle

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