The community that comes with the software.
TDO is not just practice management software. It is access to a community of endodontists who have been learning from each other, mentoring each other, and raising the standard of the specialty together since 1991.
TDO User Meeting and PERF Scientific Session
The TDO User Meeting brings together endodontists from across the country for three days of clinical education, product training, community connection, and the PERF Scientific Session. It is the gathering point for the TDO community and one of the most concentrated clinical learning events in the specialty.
What to Expect
Clinical Education
Sessions taught by leading endodontists covering advanced techniques and clinical decision-making.
PERF Scientific Session
The latest endodontic research presentations from the Pacific Endodontic Research Foundation.
Platform Training
TDOS product training and previews of new features coming to the platform.
Community & Networking
Dinners, workshops, and case discussion forums with TDO members from across the country.
Three communities. One membership.
Every TDO member practice gets access to all three community groups. These are private, members-only groups exclusively for TDO users and our team.
TDO Clinical
The primary community for endodontists to share clinical cases, discuss technique, debate equipment choices, and ask the questions they cannot ask anywhere else. The most concentrated body of endodontic practice intelligence in the specialty.
Available to all TDO member practices. Postgrad members receive 2 years of access post-graduation.
TDO Chat
The off-topic community where endodontists connect as people, not just as clinicians. Travel, life, practice ownership, and everything the clinical forums do not cover. A genuinely warm community that has been running since TDO's earliest days.
Available to all TDO member practices.
TDO Staff Chat
The operational brain trust for office managers, front desk, and clinical assistants. Post a question and hear from dozens of practices that have solved the same problem. Knowledge that took years to accumulate is one post away.
Available to all TDO member practices and their teams.
A community you can see.
User meetings, PERF courses, clinical workshops, and the moments between. TDO has been building community in endodontics since 1991.
Photos from TDO User Meetings, PERF courses, and community events.
Where the community started.
PERF was founded in 1991 by Dr. Gary Carr as a public, non-profit research foundation dedicated to teaching and research in endodontics. The monthly training courses PERF ran from 1991 to 2001 trained over 700 endodontists in microscopic endodontics before it became standard practice.
The community that formed around those courses became the foundation of the TDO community. Many of the 30 original beta testers for TDO Software in 1998 were PERF faculty members. That connection between PERF and TDO continues through the annual User Meeting and PERF Scientific Session.
Visit PERF at perfendo.orgCommunity access starts in residency.
TDO is integrated in 40+ endodontic residency programs worldwide. Postgrad members get access to TDO Clinical and the broader TDO community from day one of their training, with 2 years of continued access after graduation.
Learn About TDO Postgrads
JOIN THE COMMUNITYThe community is included with every subscription.
TDO Clinical, TDO Chat, and TDO Staff Chat come with every TDO practice membership. Not an add-on. Not an upgrade. Part of what TDO is.
Community access is available to all active TDO member practices.