From Our Side of the Chair
Speaker:
Shannon Pace Brinker, CDA
May 9, 2026
Date:
Time:
8:30 AM-11:30 AM
3
CE Credits:
From Our Side of the Chair
Shannon Pace Brinker, CDA
About the Course
With the myriad of esthetic dental materials and techniques available today, dental assistants need to be more familiar than ever with all aspects of clinical practice. Understanding treatment goals and unique treatment considerations is essential to obtaining the desired outcome. Both contribute before, during, and after the treatment delivery to foreseeing potential complications and making the process predictable. Achieving highly satisfying results should be the goal of everyone in the office, as well as the patient. This interactive lecture gives your team valuable perspectives from both sides of the chair.
Educational Objectives:
Understand the necessary skills to shoot essential photographs for quick co-diagnosis and pre-treatment, treatment, and post-treatment clinical angles required for documentation and lab communication purposes.
Learn and explain basic concepts in Chairside Assisting Skills.
Gain knowledge of new dental equipment and materials released for efficiency.
Your Instructor
Shannon Pace Brinker, CDA
Shannon Pace Brinker, CDA, is a national and international speaker and published author. She has been a full-time practicing dental assistant for more than 25 years and works for Dr. Robert Korman in Virginia Beach, VA.
She is an active member of the AACD, was the first auxiliary to sit on the AACD Board of Directors, and was awarded the AACD Rising Star Award. Shannon was selected one of Dentistry Today’s Top 100 Clinicians. She was also selected as Dental Products Report’s 25 most influential women in dentistry and Dr. Bicuspid’s dental assisting educator of the year.
She has written more than 300 articles about clinical applications and has a current column in Dental Product Reports for team evaluations of dental products and materials. She has her own publication for dental assistants in partnership with Schein Dental called Side by Side. She has started one of the first online platforms designated for dental assistants called the Academy of Chairside Assisting.
Conflict of Interest Disclosure
None reported
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