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Published on: April 29, 2014
The Yankee Dental Congress: an MDS Institution
Abstract:
The Yankee Dental Congress is such a big part of the Massachusetts Dental Society (MDS) that it's sometimes hard to think of one without thinking of the other. The dental meeting, which is the fifth-largest dental conference in the United States, is so integral to the Society that the entire MDS staff moves to Boston's Seaport District and the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center (BCEC) for the four days of the conference, working both behind the scenes and on the front lines to make sure that everything runs smoothly and that attendees and exhibitors get as much out of the meeting as possible.
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