Dubai Luxury Dental Retreat

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

August 26–31, 2025

Dubai, UAE|A Foundation Dental Alliance Experience

What Happens When Dentistry Leaves the Conference Room?

For six days in Dubai, a small group of dentists and their spouses stepped away from their practices to learn, explore, and spend time with people asking many of the same questions about leadership, growth, and life beyond dentistry.

The result wasn’t simply another continuing education event.

It was an experience intentionally designed to create conversations that rarely happen inside a ballroom, relationships that continue long after everyone returns home, and a different way to think about what professional development can become.

This film isn’t a commercial.
It’s simply what happened.

Explore the Experience
Retreat attendees in conversation over dinner at a Dubai restaurant

Why This Exists

Some Conversations Need a Different Environment.

Continuing education is important.

But some of the most valuable conversations don’t happen between lectures.

They happen over dinner after a full day together. On a yacht crossing open water. Walking through a city you’ve never experienced before.

When everyone has finally slowed down enough to talk about leadership, family, success, practice ownership, and what comes next.

Luxury Dental Retreats were created because environment changes the quality of conversation.

And better conversations often lead to better decisions.

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Beyond the Lecture

Education is Important. Conversations Are What Last.

The most valuable conversations don’t happen between lectures.

They happen when everyone finally slows down.

When the environment is different.

When the focus shifts from the schedule to the people around the table.

That’s the experience we create.

Experience the Difference
Jim Arnold in conversation with a retreat attendee at an evening venue in Dubai

The Experiences

Every Evening Had Its Own Story.

From a private yacht on the marina to dinner beneath the Burj Khalifa, the setting changed every night, and so did the conversations.

Burj Khalifa

Armani Ristorante

View at the Palm

Private Yacht

Pierchic Dinner

Tamoka Closing Dinner

More Than Continuing Education.

The lectures were only part of the experience. Some of the most valuable conversations happened over dinner, aboard a yacht, between sessions, and while exploring Dubai together.

Learn. Connect. Experience. Explore. Reflect.

The retreat group at a waterfront dinner with the Dubai skyline lit up across the water
Faculty-led boardroom session during the retreatPrivate dining room with a glowing onyx wallGroup photo aboard the coach between venuesA couple at an evening view of the Burj Al Arab

Dubai Luxury Dental Retreat 2025

The Best Conversations Weren’t on the Agenda.

New perspectives.

Honest conversations.

Relationships that continue long after the retreat ends.

Ideas that changed practices.

Decisions that changed lives.

That’s what happens when you step away from the daily routine and spend several days learning, thinking, and experiencing something together.

Two retreat attendees in conversation at a candlelit restaurant
Group photo at Sheikh Zayed Grand MosquePrivate dining room during the retreatGroup photo on an observation deck overlooking Dubai at nightLong-table group dinner on the final night

Dubai Luxury Dental Retreat 2025

What They Said After Dubai

Dr. Dua Farhoud, DDS

Aesthetic Dentist  •  New Orleans, Louisiana

Dr. Roxene Gascogne, DDS

Endodontist  •  New York, New York

Dr. Karlene Wright, DDS

General Dentist  •  Maryland

Santorini's caldera lit up at night, site of the next Luxury Dental Retreat

Looking Ahead

The Next Chapter Begins in Santorini.

October 27 – November 1, 2026

Every retreat eventually comes to an end.
The conversations don’t.

This October, a new group of dentists will gather in Santorini to continue building relationships, exchanging ideas, and stepping away from the demands of everyday practice.

We’d love to have you with us.

Apply for Santorini