The Academy works with outside vendors who offer members discounts on a variety of services and products for their professional and personal life...

Affinity Discount Programs for AAP Members

The Academy works with outside vendors who offer members discounts on a variety of services and products.

Southern Anesthesia & Surgical

Our newest AAP Affinity Program with Southern Anesthesia & Surgical offers members an upfront discount on the products that are used every day in a periodontal practice! To make buying easy, the AAP member discounted price is published in Southern's new catalog coming to members' mailboxes soon. Save now while investing in the AAP with a portion of each purchase you make coming back into our member programs.

Institute of Medical Emergency Preparedness Emergency Response System

The Emergency Response System (ERS) effectively helps dentists prepare their offices for a medical emergency prior to the arrival of emergency medical services. Using a comprehensive, systematic approach to medical emergency preparedness, ERS allows you to easily integrate new staff into the team and provide the tools to meet OSHA requirements for an emergency plan. The ERS includes 53 hours of continuing education annually for each staff member in an office (up to 20 people), 22 step-by-step emergency action charts and checklist, an emergency action guide, four medical emergency workbooks, emergency treatment record document, clinical scenarios and monthly mock drills, online record keeping and testing verification. As an introductory offer, IMEP offers a free Medical Emergency Membership consisting of 12 monthly mock emergency drills and 30 medical emergency specialty tests, along with a total of 53 hours of online medical emergency continuing education.

FedEx® Shipping

AAP members can already save up to 27% on select FedEx® shipping services and are now entitled to save up to 20% on select FedEx OfficeSM copy and print services and 10% off other select services at more than 1,800 FedEx Office locations. Signup is free, and there are no shipping, copy or print minimums.

Dispensing Solutions In-Office Medication Dispensing

Dispensing Solutions offers a convenient, proven method for supplying your patients with the medications they need at the time of their office visit. For nearly 20 years, Dispensing Solutions has been a trusted supplier of pre-packaged medications to physician offices and clinics throughout the United States.

Wiley-Blackwell Journals and Books

Members may take advantage of 20% discounts on subscriptions to publications such as the Clinical Implant Dentistry and Related Research, Journal of Clinical Periodontology, Clinical Oral Implants Research, Oral Microbiology and Immunology, Journal of Periodontal Research and Periodontology 2000. Wiley-Blackwell also offers reduced prices on a number of its best-selling texts in periodontics and implant dentistry.

Books on Periodontics from Amazon.com

If you use the AAP's links to Amazon's comprehensive inventory of books on the etiology, pathogenesis and treatment of periodontal diseases, you'll get their low prices and the Academy will get a royalty.

Treloar & Heisel – Insurance Programs

Offers members special savings on insurance programs through group plans.

Professional Liability
This insurance program offers joint initiatives with provider-sponsored networks and regional offices for better customer service.

Disability Protection
Disability Income Insurance - protects income
Overhead Expense Policy - protects the practice by paying office overhead expenses during periods of disability
Buy/Sell Disability - protects interest in a partnership, corporation or group-owned practice

Permanent Life Insurance
Universal Life - provides a highly flexible permanent life insurance plan with a conservative, systematic, forced and tax-deferred savings component
Whole Life - provides tax-deferred buildup of cash values over the life of the contract
Joint Survivor - permits payment of estate taxes with life insurance benefits

Term Life Insurance
Term Life - Protects individuals with debts, family obligations and short, specified-term financial responsibilities
Term-Universal Life - Combines low-cost Term-Universal insurance with flexible coverage, level premiums and modest cash values

Long-Term Care Insurance
The Long-Term Care Insurance plan covers all levels of nursing care for enrollees between the ages of 40 and 84 who qualify as spouse, parents, or in-laws. This plan offers a 10-15% association discount and an additional discount on each policy if policies for two members of a household are purchased at the same time.

Automobile/Home Owners Insurance
Group Savings Plus offers money-saving rates, convenient payment plans, 12-month policies, 24-hour claim service, and personalized service.

Retirement Plan
This plan offers institutional money managers, multi-manager/multi-style institutional investment approach, custom plan design and full-service administration services.

Bank of America WorldPoints® Credit Card Program

This program offers AAP members additional travel benefits or cash back options. You can redeem WorldPoints rewards for travel, brand-name merchandise, gift certificates from top retailers, or unlimited cash rewards. Contact Bank of America to get rates, fees, and other cost information, including a description of how the introductory rate could end before the expiration date.

Retriever – Credit Card Processing

Retriever offers members credit card processing services tailored to the needs of medical and dental professional offices with five new ways of accepting credit cards.

Telusys Inc. – Website Design and Hosting

This program offers members the ability to launch a professional website for their practice. Members can fully customize their site or use templates to design their website. Telusys offers full technical support, domain registration and Web-based e-mail.

CareCredit – Patient Financing Plans

CareCredit is the nation’s leading patient financing program. Today, over 80,000 dental practices offer patients the convenience of CareCredit monthly payment plans. Members save on enrollment and there’s no monthly minimum use fee. CareCredit:


National Credit Systems (NCS) - Debt Collection Program

This program can take care of your debt collection. For a one-time flat fee (per delinquent), NCS will contact your debtor up to five times.

Penny Wise – Office Products

This program offers brand-name office supply and furniture items.

Hertz – Car Rental

This program offers members special car rental discounts and benefits including upgrade coupons and fee-waived applications.

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