AGD's 10 Dentists to Watch-AGD’s 10 Dentists to Watch Multiple Speakers

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This webinar featured a panel of early-career dentists discussing how they built their careers and used the AGD for mentorship, continuing education, leadership, and advocacy. The speakers shared different paths into dentistry, including residency training, public health, military service, and private practice ownership. A major theme was that AGD helped them find mentors, quality CE, and professional community early in their careers.<br /><br />Panelists explained the meaning of FAGD and MAGD, emphasizing the value of ongoing learning, CE hours, participation credits, and professional goals. They also discussed budgeting for CE, noting that AGD’s bundled programs, local chapters, and recommendations from colleagues made learning more accessible.<br /><br />Other topics included navigating the post-pandemic dental workforce, managing student debt, dealing with patient comments about being young, and balancing work, family, and leadership roles. The panel strongly encouraged new dentists and students to seek mentors early, stay flexible in their career paths, and get involved in organized dentistry.<br /><br />The discussion closed with advice to keep learning, take chances, maintain health, and build supportive professional friendships.

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Each year, AGD Impact highlights 10 dentists at the beginning of their careers who represent the newest generation of exemplary oral healthcare providers. As new leaders in the field, these dentists can relate to students and recent grads and share stories and advice on how they got to where they are today. During this webinar, attendees will have the chance to get to know the panelists and ask them questions about dentistry, the beginning of their careers and more.

Keywords

early-career dentists

AGD mentorship

continuing education

leadership

advocacy

FAGD and MAGD

student debt

organized dentistry

professional networking