Dentistry Uncensored with Howard Farran

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145 You Can Do Surgeries with Ziv Simon : Dentistry Uncensored with Howard Farran Sep 11, 2015

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Ziv Simon, DMD took a non-dentist--someone who doesn't even have a dental degree--and put him through his 7 hour suturing training. After the course, this student got results that were better than some of the dentists. Listen in to learn more.

Dr. Simon maintains a private practice limited to periodontics, dental implants and reconstructive surgery in Beverly Hills, California. He obtained his dental degree from Tel Aviv University. and his periodontal degree from the University of Toronto. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Periodontology and a Fellow of the Royal College of Dentists of Canada in the specialty of periodontics

Dr. Simon is the president of the Beverly Hills Academy of Dentistry and founder of the Beverly Hills Multidisciplinary Dental Study Group and the Dental Hygiene study club of Beverly Hills. Dr. Simon teaches at the School of Dentistry, University of Southern California. He lectures and publishes on esthetic periodontal surgery, bone grafting and computer-guided implant surgery. Dr. Simon is dedicated to developing and implementing novel surgical techniques and teaching dentists to be successful surgeons. He is the first to publish on Surgical lip repositioning in the dental literature. Dr. Simon is the creator of SurgicalMaster™, a surgical training program for dentists and the zPad™ suturing training system.

www.surgicalmaster.com

www.perio90210.com

144 Solo vs. Group Practice with Dr. Marc Cooper : Dentistry Uncensored with Howard Farran Sep 11, 2015

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How many dentists do you know who are not incorporated? Corporate dentistry is not unique. Group practices, however, can be.

Dr. Cooper's professional career includes private periodontist, academician, researcher, teacher, practice management consultant, corporate consultant, trainer, seminar director, board director, author, entrepreneur and inventor.

Dr. Cooper has studied with masters in many disciplines, participated in formal business educational programs, and worked as an independent contractor with top-flight consulting companies. In 2011, Dr. Cooper was selected as a coach for the prestigious TED Fellows Program.

The Mastery Company has been in existence since 1984. Dr. Cooper's client experience in dentistry includes solo private practice, small partnered practices, managed group practices and retail corporate enterprises. Dr. Cooper has worked with numbers of health care entities such as insurance companies, clearing houses, bio-technical companies and disease management companies, as well as the senior executives and boards of large hospitals and hospital systems and a number of their related physician groups. In addition, Dr. Cooper has worked with Silicon Valley start-ups and Fortune 500 companies.

The SUMMIT was launched by Dr. Cooper and several colleagues in Seattle Washington in 2013. The annual conference was developed to educate and support dentist-entrepreneurs interested in creating managed group practices. Due to considerable interest in this meeting, the Dental Entrepreneur Organization® was created for entrepreneurs in search of resources to assist them in growing their group practices.

Dr. Cooper is author of eight successful books; Mastering the Business of Practice, Partnerships in Dental Practice, Running on Empty, SOURCE, Valuocity, Valuocity II, Valuocity III and The Elder. His weekly electronic newsletter reaches thousands of subscribers in 31 countries.

MasteryCompany.com

Contact Chris Creamer at (425) 806-8830

info@MasteryCompany.com

143 Are You Getting Embezzled? with David Harris : Dentistry Uncensored with Howard Farran Sep 10, 2015

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Listen in to learn some of the amazing, shocking statistics behind embezzlement. The first step to detecting embezzlement is understanding the problem.

Overcoming a troubled adolescence, David Harris has become the world’s leading expert on dental office embezzlement. He is the CEO of Prosperident, the world’s largest dental embezzlement investigation firm. Prosperident’s team of specialized investigators is consulted on hundreds of frauds annually committed against both general dentists and dental specialists. David has had the distinct pleasure of hearing cell doors slam shut on many embezzlers. David is a licensed private investigator with a graduate degree in applied mathematics and a CPA. David is “dual certified” in fraud investigation – he possesses both the Certified Fraud Examiner designation from the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners and the Certified in Financial Forensics designation from the American Institute of CPAs. David is a Mensa member and belongs to several organizations for dental consultants and speakers. David has been interviewed on the subject of embezzlement by many leading dental publications and organizations. He is also a prolific writer and authors or co-authors a dozen or more articles annually that appear in major dental publications. David has lectured at several US and Canadian universities in the faculties of business, law and dentistry. David has spoken at regional, national and international dental conferences. He is a highly entertaining and engaging speaker who draws on a vast amount of experience in his field.

Listen in to learn some of the amazing, shocking statistics behind embezzlement. The first step to detecting embezzlement is understanding the problem.

142 What Is Ideal Dentistry? with Thomas Mitchell : Dentistry Uncensored with Howard Farran Sep 10, 2015

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Howard Farran and Thomas Mitchell explore the concept of ideal dentistry, and what changes that may mean for you and your staff.

I've been in practice 4 days/week for 40+ years and teaching 1 day/week for about 20 years. My training includes tons of mentoring by a famous periodontist and completion of a 3 year program in Advanced Restorative Dentistry at the University of Washington. My practice focuses on basic general dentistry with an emphasis on perio/pros combination cases. The courses at UW I'm involved with are the first year courses in anatomy and occlusion. I give up to 3 lectures/year on anatomy, bite splints and TMJ. I also run a study club.

I've been married for 43 years (Howard met my wife Linda last year when we visited his office). My home is here in Bellevue and we have a condo in Scottsdale. We have one son who lives in LA with his wife. He's a psychiatrist working for LA County Jail System, and his wife is a hair stylist who owns her own shop in Pasadena. My hobbies include golf and golf and golf.

email: twmdds@uw.edu

website: thomasmitchelldds.com

141 What They Don't Teach In Dental School with Jay White : Dentistry Uncensored with Howard Farran Sep 09, 2015

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Forget dental school; they don't even teach some of these concepts in business school. Jay White, MBA shares what you should be focusing on. And it might not be what you think.

Jay is the founder and President of J White and Associates LTD a dental managment, coaching and marketing firm. For over 40 years Jay and his team have coached dentists and team members on how to improve the profitability of their practices. Choosing to have dentistry is a decretionary decision, so suddenly the behavior and training of the team become exceptionally important.

Jay Graduated from the Northwestern University Business school and earned an MBA in marketing and finance from Univ. Of Southern Calif.

website: JWhiteAndAssoc.com

cell : 612 599 3219

Office: 952 432 3322

140 Dental Entrepreneurship with Steffany Mohan : Dentistry Uncensored with Howard Farran Sep 09, 2015

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Steffany Mohan, DDS shares some of the business and economics of dentistry, and what it means to be an entrepreneur.

Dr. Steffany Mohan has practiced dentistry for 19 years. She completed her undergraduate work in agricultural biochemistry before earning her Doctorate of Dental Surgery at the University of Iowa. Since then, Dr. Mohan has built and sold several dental practices and currently owns one of the busiest and most successful practices in the state of Iowa where she employs four associate dentists and twenty team members, including 6 full time hygienists.

She was chosen to be the Associate Clinical Director of OsteoReady™ due to her keen intellect and her history of serial implementation successes. Dr. Mohan has a true passion for mentoring and guiding colleagues through her own proven clinical management systems. Dr. Mohan has been placing implants for nearly a decade. She currently works with over 100 individual offices as an advisor for their dental implants services and management systems.

Dr. Mohan likes to think of herself as "the dentist next-door." She is always curious to learn and master new things and is a proponent of good old-fashioned work-ethic.

Dr. Mohan also serves as a faculty member for Six Month Smiles®.

Dr. Mohan is married to her husband, Mike. They have four children, two sons and two daughters: Luke, Josh, Camaryn and Halle.

www.DmSmiles.com

steffmohan@gmail.com

515-681-6225

139 Predictable Implantology with PK Clark : Dentistry Uncensored with Howard Farran Sep 08, 2015

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PK Clark places 1500 implants a year. His implants are placed according to three things: Location, Angulation, and Depth. Listen as he explains.

PK is a practicing dentist, lecturer, and surgical mentor. He is passionate about patient-centered care and devoted his professional life to his patients and advance dental procedures. He is often characterized as down-to-earth, thoughtful, passionate and ambitious. PK and his wife, Cheryl, are the proud parents of six children.

http://whitecapinstitute.com/

pk@whitecapinstitute.com

please always CC-bobbi@whitecapinstitute.com

138 Why Ribbond? with David Rudo : Dentistry Uncensored with Howard Farran Sep 08, 2015

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Regarding Ribbond, Dr. Rudo says, "Necessity was the mother of invention". In the early days, Ribbond was barely recognized. Now it's way more than just another legitimate dental material.

David Rudo was born in 1935 in Baltimore, MD. He graduated from University of Maryland in 1961, and served in the US Army in Germany from 1961-1963. Dr. Rudo moved to Seattle WA and started a dental practice in 1966, and developed Ribbond in late 1980's. Afterwards, he started Ribbond, Inc., in 1992. He then sold his practice to work full-time with Ribbond, Inc. Dr. Rudo currenty runs Ribbond, Inc. with his daughter and son.

ribbond@ribbond.com

800-624-4554

137 Sleep-Disordered Breathing with Steven Olmos : Dentistry Uncensored with Howard Farran Sep 07, 2015

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Learn why it's important to educate yourself about sleep dentistry. Steven Olmos, DDS shares new and important information about the discipline.

Dr. Steven Olmos has been in private practice for more than 30 years with the last 20 years devoted to research and treatment of craniofacial pain, temporomandibular disorder (TMD), and sleep-related breathing disorders. He obtained his DDS from the University of Southern California School of Dentistry and has continued his postgraduate education with over 4,000 hours and board certifications in the fields of mandibular orthopedic dysfunction and sleep-disordered breathing. Dr. Olmos is the founder of TMJ & Sleep Therapy Centres International with 30 licensed Centres in 6 countries dedicated exclusively to the diagnosis and treatment of these disorders. His protocols are an assimilation of his knowledge base, which is reflected by certifications in all philosophies of treatment both medical and dental. Dr. Olmos is an adjunct professor at the University of Tennessee School of Dentistry, where his system of diagnosis and treatment are utilized at the school’s Craniofacial Pain Center. This effort is focused to establish protocols between dentistry and medicine foroptimal treatment outcomes.

Dr. Steven Olmos

www.tmjtherapycentre.com

steven@tmjtherapycentre.com

(619) 462-0676

136 Ivoclar: Behind The Curtain with Don Bell : Dentistry Uncensored with Howard Farran Sep 07, 2015

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"Doctors--at some point--will run their office without ever placing a direct restorative material again."

Director of Marketing - Ivoclar Vivadent

www.ivoclarvivadent.us