Thanks Josh! What a Great Evening!

Last night, Josh Scott from The Paragon Program came to the Passion for Dentistry Study Club at Carlucci's Restaurant in Downers Grove and gave a great speech on Recession-Proofing Your Practice. Dr. Umar Haque from Oak Brook iCAT and Oak Brook Smiles and James Iwinski from Premium Dental Lab organized the event. Medco Surgical Supplies and CAMLOG Dental Implants sponsored the event as well.

Over 20 doctors attended, including some prestigious dentists in Chicago and its suburbs. We were honored to have the Northwestern Dental School professor and prosthodontist: Dr. Bernard Muzynski, the LVI and Hornbrook instructor: Dr. Sheldon Seidman, the talented Dr. Robert Jourdan from Always Great Smiles, the Fridge's dentist: Dr. Vesna Sutter, a great comprehensive care and TMJ dentist: Dr. Darren Simpson, along with a great dentist in Elmhurst: Dr. Kurt Carlson, one of Paragon's client's: Dr. Sherif Albert, and a number of other dentists.

After introductions and acknowledgements, Medco raffled off a set of periotomes. Dr. Vesna Sutter won them.

Then Josh Scott came to speak, since Ken Runkle was not well. Josh gave a riveting talk on some concepts that most dentists don't consider when trying to improve their office: the business of having a practice. He discussed many factors that we need to take into account when taking care of our patients and when trying to get to the next level that we all can achieve.

Josh talked about the importance and value of dentistry, customer service, time management, managing overheads, and staff encouragement. One great quote he brought forth by Charles Mayo, "Preventive dentistry can add 10 years to human life."

His lecture was followed up by a discussion about some elements of his talk and then a nice dinner by Carlucci's.

Dr. Haque also discussed his CT scanning center and implant center, James talked about Premium, and Rudy Wolf talked about CAMLOG dental implants.

It was a lovely evening, and we look forward to future meetings!