Dentistry Uncensored with Howard Farran

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645 Now To Wow Hygiene with Stephanie Lodding RDH Mar 15, 2017

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Stephanie Lodding RDH is the current Immediate past President for the American Academy for Oral Systemic Health (AAOSH). Stephanie is CEO of her own company Now to Wow Hygiene LLC and helps to train dentists, hygienists and teams to a higher level of learning and understanding of the Oral health connection and how to integrate Oral Systemics and comprehensive care into the practice. She is known as the Half Million Dollar hygienist with over 10 years of producing over 500K a year working 3-4 days per week.

644 Implant Education With Jay Elliott, DDS Mar 14, 2017

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Dr. Elliott is a 1980 graduate of the University of Texas Dental School in Houston. He has been in private practice there since then. He completed a 3 year implant residency at Loma Linda School of Dentistry in 2000. He is an Honored Fellow of the American Academy of Implant Dentistry and a Diplomate of the American Board of Oral Implantology/Implant Dentistry.

Dr. Elliott was a named plaintiff in a Federal lawsuit against the Texas Board of Dental Examiners for the right to claim specialty status in Implant Dentistry. The court found in favor of the plaintiffs by summary judgement in January 2016.

He is also the director of TexMAX® the newest AAID sponsored MaxiCourse® for implant education in the world.

643 Andy Cleveland, "The Accounts Receivable Ninja" Mar 14, 2017

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Andy Cleveland, "The Accounts Receivable Ninja" has been in the Revenue cycle space for almost 20 years and has served a variety of capacities. He started working with dental practices on the collections floor motivating difficult patients to pay on everything from hygiene visits to full mouth restorations. Learning the business from the ground up he developed a proficiency in recovering lost revenues and rose to the top of his field.

He realized his skill sets were better utilized working with practice owners so, he moved to the service side of the business. Currently, he consults with dentists and has partnered with numerous best in class service providers to help dentists optimize their accounts receivable process to ensure maximum profitability. Not only is it rewarding to help practices achieve greater efficiency but, improving key areas such as employee satisfaction and recare as well.

He is a member of The Academy of Dental Management Consultants (The ADMC), a creator of The Dental Resource Partners educational group, a speaker and consultant that enjoys specializing in the dental field.

642 The 3 steps to grow your practice with Kristin Pelletier Mar 14, 2017

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Kristin Pelletier's career in dentistry encompasses a broad range of experience in all aspects of managing a successful dental practice, from assisting, to office management, to software training. Today, as a dental management consultant, her comprehensive services are bringing success and transformational change to a long list of clients who are benefiting from her expertise, and results-driven consulting style. Visit her website at www.KristinPelletier.com.

641 Implants & startup! with Dr. Michael D'Hondt and Dr. James R Amstadt Mar 12, 2017

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Dr Amstadt is the owner of Dr James Amstadt Consulting LLC and is very passionate about helping young dentists incorporate complex, comprehensive dentistry into their practice. He is especially focused on implant services both surgical and restorative. Dr Amstadt provides onsite teaching and coaching services and helps dentists with live implant surgeries. In addition he is available on a monthly basis to treatment plan and troubleshoot cases as well as take calls on an emergency or urgent basis. In addition to his teaching services he has worked with many dentists to organize, present and market implant and complex dentistry to patients and help dentists build that side of their practice.

He has a tremendous background but he has uniquely started and built a general dentistry practice which had 23 employees and 3 doctors by the year 2000 which he sold and then started an implant practice in 2001. He started with zero patients in 2001 and grew that practice to a 1.5 million dollar practice working 120 days a year and sold that practice in 2015.

In the interest of full disclosure he is a Key Opinion Leader for Implant Direct and a paid speaker.

640 Changes in dentistry with Dr. Kaveh Ghaboussi Mar 09, 2017

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Dr. Kaveh has sought out specialized training in a wide range of dental issues and technology. He has attended the prestigious Las Vegas Institute for Advanced Dentistry to study techniques like veneers, porcelain crowns and full mouth restorations. In addition to cosmetic dentistry and pain management he has also focused on training in oral conscious sedation . Dr. Kaveh regularly attends and teaches seminars for dentists. Recently Dr. Kaveh has been awarded his elite mastership in the American Dental Implant Association. Only 2% of dentists in the USA qualify for membership, & less than .2% qualify for mastership, and has also been awarded a Diplomate from the Dental Organization for Conscious Sedation for his excellence and clinical abilities in sedation, and implant dentistry. To better serve his patients, he is an active member in the American Dental Association, Dental Organization For Conscious Sedation, Reconstructive Dentistry Institute, as well as the American Dental Implant Association. Dr. Ghaboussi has helped dentists from across the United States in implementing new procedures in their offices, such as: CAD/CAM, cosmetic dentistry, photography, and dental implants. He has been a featured speaker for many public groups and events on topics such as growth and development, orthodontics, cosmetic dentistry, and oral health.

639 Transition into real world practice with Dr. Neha Garge Mar 08, 2017

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Neha Garge is a graduate from Boston University Goldman School of Dental Medicine in 2013 and is the author of "The New Dentist's Guide to Real World Dentistry". She has had experience in corporate and private practice dentistry and has practiced in Massachusetts, Southern California, and Northern Virginia.

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638 Controversies in Orthodontics with Jay Bowman Mar 07, 2017

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Jay is a Diplomate of the American Board, a member of the Angle Society, and a Fellow of both the International and the American College of Dentists. He is on the faculty of The University of Michigan, Saint Louis University, Case Western and Seton Hill Universities. He received the Angle Research Award and the Alumni Merit Award from Saint Louis University.

Jay is a Contributing Editor for the American Journal of Orthodontics, the Journal of Clinical Orthodontics, and Seminars in Orthodontics. He is co-author of the book: Mini-Implants in Orthodontics: Innovative Anchorage Concepts, He has over 150 articles and book chapters published. He has also developed dozens of innovative products including Butterfly System braces, Horseshoe Jet molar distalizer, Kilroy Springs and Monkey Hooks for impacted canines, Clear Collection instruments from Hu-Friedy and Aligner Chewies for clear aligners, among others.

A couple of his bucket list experiences was speaking for the last 2 World Federation of Orthodontists meetings, including a standing room only talk in London. As an amateur musician, Jay was lucky enough to be invited to play keyboards on-stage in Italy with his friends in the iconic rock band, Los Lobos, on their 40th anniversary tour

Most recently, he spent 2 weeks as the Milton Sims Visiting Professor and External Examiner at the University of Adelaide in Australia.

637 The Dental Business with Mary Fisher-Day Mar 05, 2017

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636 Find my Implant with Dr. Paul Botha Mar 04, 2017

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I am in private periodontal practice in the Northern Suburbs of Cape Town, South Africa. We are a multi-disciplined specialist practice providing care in the fields of Periodontology, Implantology, Oral Medicine and Orthodontics.

Finished dental school in 1989 in Cape Town.

Completed PostGrduate Diploma in Special care Dentistry 1995

Completed 4 year residency program (1996 -99) in Oral Medicine and Periodontics at University of Stellenbosch

Completed MSc Med Sci (Clinical Epidemiology) in 2013 at Uni Stellenbosch Medical School

Have been busy in Dental Politics for many years serving at National Council level and being local Branch President.

Findmyimplant.com is a global dental implant registry.