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Thank you to all those who purchased tickets for the ODA Foundation's raffle to support access to care grants and dental student scholarships.  Your contributions and ticket purchases have allowed the Foundation to distribute over $125,000 to many worthy students and organizations in 2018! Congratulations to our 2018 ODA Foundation raffle ... [continue reading]

A call for nominations is now extended for dentist board member positions on the Ohio State Dental Board. The Ohio Dental Association has the opportunity to recommend nominees to the Governor of Ohio for possible dentist board member openings on the Ohio State Dental Board (OSDB), which may be vacant in April 2019 or before. The board member ... [continue reading]

The Ohio Dental Association seeks members to fill potential upcoming at-large positions on ODA councils. The ODA is seeking nominations for at-large positions on the association’s Council on Access to Care and Public Service, Council on Dental Care Programs and Dental Practice and the Council on Membership Services. Nominations for these ... [continue reading]

The 2019 ODA Leadership Institute will be held March 15 and 16, 2019 at the Hilton Columbus at Easton Hotel in Columbus. Leadership Institute is the ODA’s award-winning program developed to help all ODA members become more successful and effective leaders. Attendees consistently rank the event as one of the top leadership development ... [continue reading]

Obtain CE credit verification and download handouts for courses attended at the 2018 ODA Annual Session by clicking here. To access CE certificates, click the “proceed to CE dashboard” button shown at the top of the screen. If you would like to access course handouts, links are posted on the account summary page, which is the first ... [continue reading]

The Exhibit Hall is rated by ODA Annual Session attendees as one of the top reasons they attend the meeting each year. This year’s Exhibit Hall will have more than 200 vendors, and is the largest in the area. The 2018 ODA Annual Session – More Engagement = More Achievement – is Sept. 13-16 at the Greater Columbus Convention ... [continue reading]

The ODA's House of Delegates, which is the legislative and supreme authoritative body of the association, will meet on Sept. 13 and 14, 2018, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Columbus, Ohio in conjunction with the 2018 ODA Annual Session. Nearly 140 delegates from across the state representing all 25 component dental societies, including two student ... [continue reading]

Dentists, their staff members and others planning to hold Give Kids A Smile events any time in 2019 should plan to register those activities during October 2018. Events registered by Nov. 9 will qualify to receive free products to support their events such as toothbrush and toothpaste giveaways and dental supplies to perform screenings, cleanings, ... [continue reading]

The Ohio State University Infectious Diseases Institute recently hosted a workshop that brought together private practice dentists and orthopedic surgeons to discuss antibiotic prophylaxis. Dr. Debra Goff, an infectious disease pharmacist at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and the founding member of its inpatient antibiotic ... [continue reading]

Thank You! Thank you very much for the wonderful year as president of the Ohio Dental Association. Personally, this experience has been very enlightening. There is a significant amount of work being put forth on behalf of Ohio dentists and patients. Some examples of the legislative advocacy are HB 184, the Ohio Dental Care Optimization Act. This ... [continue reading]