On September 10th, Partners Dental Solutions was honored to sponsor Airway & Añejo, an intimate Dinner & Learn hosted by Napoli Orthodontics. Billed as the ultimate CE event, the evening lived up to its name, bringing together great food, great drinks, and even better conversation, all centered on a topic we're passionate about: airway health.
Airway & Añejo brought together a strong local turnout of dentists, orthodontists, and healthcare professionals for an evening exploring the critical intersection of orthodontics, sleep medicine, and airway health, from early identification to coordinated specialty care. The event was designed to feel less like a typical CE course and more like a gathering of colleagues, a relaxed setting where clinicians could ask real questions and learn from one another over drinks rather than in a lecture hall.
Guest speaker Mike DeLuke of DeLuke Ortho Coaching delivered a compelling presentation on the importance of identifying airway concerns early, walking attendees through how sleep, breathing, growth, and function all intersect with the work happening chairside every day. His talk sparked discussion that carried on long after the slides ended, with clinicians trading cases, questions, and perspectives well into the evening. In fact, the conversations were so engaging that the event ran well past its scheduled close, a good sign that the topic struck a nerve with the room.
No Napoli event is complete without exceptional hospitality, and this one delivered. Guests enjoyed a taco bar alongside signature tequila drinks, including an espresso martini and the event's own custom "Napoli" spritz, all served up in a warm, inviting venue that set the tone for the night.
It's these small touches, paired with a genuinely engaged group of professionals, that turned a Thursday evening into something memorable.
For Partners Dental Solutions, sponsoring evenings like Airway & Añejo is about more than good food and drinks; it's about supporting the clinicians who are pushing airway health education forward and helping build community around that work. We believe that coordinated, specialty spanning care starts with conversations exactly like the ones that filled the room on September 10th, and we were honored to play a part in making that possible.
Events like this remind us why we love what we do. Watching clinicians from different specialties come together, challenge each other's thinking, and leave with new ideas to bring back to their own practices is exactly the kind of collaboration our industry needs more of.
Thank you to Napoli Orthodontics for hosting such a thoughtful and memorable evening, and to Mike DeLuke for sharing his expertise with the group. We're incredibly grateful to have been part of the first Airway & Añejo, and we can't wait to see what's next. If this night was any indication, it certainly won't be the last.