{"id":1675,"date":"2016-09-20T20:44:05","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T01:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/caringdentists.com\/blog\/?p=1675"},"modified":"2016-10-06T19:35:44","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T00:35:44","slug":"attending-the-virginia-dental-association-meeting-in-norfolk-last-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/attending-the-virginia-dental-association-meeting-in-norfolk-last-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Attending the Virginia Dental Association Meeting in Norfolk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We attended the Virginia Dental Association Meeting September 15-18th in Norfolk, Virginia and learned about the latest advances in dentistry. I also was able to talk about the future of dentistry with the President of the American Dental Association, Dr. Gary Roberts, and Virginia Dental Association President, and friend, Dr. Vince Dougherty. As\u00a0 Virginia Dental Association Delegates we voted on issues that effect dentists and dental care in the state of Virginia.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1676\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1676\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/VDAmeeting3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1676 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/VDAmeeting3-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"vdameeting3\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/VDAmeeting3-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/VDAmeeting3.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1676\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">House of Delegates Meeting<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1679\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1679\" style=\"width: 248px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/VDAvoting.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1679 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/VDAvoting-248x300.jpg\" alt=\"vdavoting\" width=\"248\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/VDAvoting-248x300.jpg 248w, https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/VDAvoting.jpg 264w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 248px) 100vw, 248px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1679\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">delegate information<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1678\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1678\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/VDAmeeting.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1678 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/VDAmeeting-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"vdameeting\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/VDAmeeting-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/VDAmeeting.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1678\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">taking a break from the meetings<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1677\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1677\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/VDAmeeting2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1677 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/VDAmeeting2-300x259.jpg\" alt=\"vdameeting2\" width=\"300\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/VDAmeeting2-300x259.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/VDAmeeting2.jpg 655w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1677\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">learning the latest advances in dentistry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DrGentryADA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1722 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DrGentryADA-300x153.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Gentry at ADA meeting\" width=\"300\" height=\"153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DrGentryADA-300x153.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DrGentryADA.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1680\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1680\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/USSWisconsin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1680 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/USSWisconsin-300x271.jpg\" alt=\"usswisconsin\" width=\"300\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/USSWisconsin-300x271.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/USSWisconsin.jpg 546w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1680\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Battleship USS Wisconsin in Norfolk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We attended the Virginia Dental Association Meeting September 15-18th in Norfolk, Virginia and learned about the latest advances in dentistry. I also was able to talk about the future of dentistry with the President of the American Dental Association, Dr. Gary Roberts, and Virginia Dental Association President, and friend, Dr. Vince Dougherty. As\u00a0 Virginia Dental &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/attending-the-virginia-dental-association-meeting-in-norfolk-last-weekend\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Attending the Virginia Dental Association Meeting in Norfolk<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[11,10,101,12,71,15,17,16],"class_list":["post-1675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virginia-dental-association-meeting","tag-arlington","tag-dentist","tag-dentistry","tag-dr-gentry","tag-dr-philip-gentry","tag-northern-virginia","tag-philip-gentry","tag-virginia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1675"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1724,"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675\/revisions\/1724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}