2026 MDA Spring Scientific Session – Michigan Dental Association
About This Event
The MDA Spring Scientific Session is a three-day continuing education event at Great Wolf Lodge in Traverse City, MI, March 13–15, 2026. Sessions include: Why Is Periodontitis So Difficult to Treat, and How to Incorporate a Periodontal Program in Your Office (Hardev Singh) — a 3-hour evening lecture covering etiology, diagnosis, patient compliance, and building a periodontal program; What Adjunctive Therapies or Agents Can We Use as Providers to Help Patients with Periodontitis (Hardev Singh) — a 3-hour morning session reviewing locally delivered antimicrobials, systemic antibiotics, host-modulation therapy, and lasers with evidence-based recommendations; Practice Success through Analytics (Patrick Houlihan) — a 3-hour session on key practice metrics, productivity, efficiency, and using numbers to develop short- and long-term improvement plans. The program includes stated learning objectives for each session, fees for weekend and individual day registrations, accommodations information and room block details, cancellation and refund policies, and contact information for the MDA Continuing Education Department.
Learning Objectives
- Describe the multifactorial causes of periodontitis and their clinical implications.
- Explain challenges related to diagnosis and patient compliance.
- Develop a structured periodontal program tailored to the practice’
- s needs.
- Implement communication strategies to increase patient acceptance of periodontal care.
- Identify evidence-supported adjunctive therapies for periodontitis.
- Evaluate indications and contraindications for systemic and local antimicrobials.
- Discuss the role of host-modulation therapy in periodontal treatment.
- Incorporate adjunctive options into individualized treatment plans.
- Discover which numbers are important to monitor.
- Learn which numbers to track and why.
- Determine what numbers are outside the desired norms.
- Understand measures of practice productivity, efficiency, and profitability and how to apply them.