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1297 Busting Dental Fraud & Embezzlement with Bill Hiltz : Dentistry Uncensored with Howard Farran Nov 21, 2019

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For more than 20 years, William "Bill" Hiltz has been helping dentists settle their most pressing and complex problems. Bill's qualifications in engineering, biology, computer science, data analytics, education and business help him to provide thoughtful insight that is generally unavailable elsewhere. Since 2004, Bill has been primarily focused on matters involving fraud, embezzlement and litigation support for dentists and practice owners.

1296 Premium Dental Office Design with Dr. Mark Tholen : Dentistry Uncensored with Howard Farran Nov 20, 2019

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Dr. Mark Tholen is the former CEO of the nation's premier dental office design firm, which created over 3,000 offices in virtually every State of the Union, Europe, and Australia. His career in dentistry spans over 30 years including clinical practice before obtaining his MBA from the University of Texas. He is the author of three dental textbooks published by Lea & Febiger, the most recent of which is a comprehensive book on all aspects of dental office design with over 7,500 copies sold. Dr. Tholen has lectured extensively in the U.S., Europe, Australia, and Asia and is a former consulting editor to the parent corporation of Dental Economics. Currently, he is the principal instructor of the extremely popular dental office design seminar, "Inspiring Success", sponsored by A-dec of Newberg, Oregon.

1295 Christian Brutzer on Leading the Way in Esthetic Dentistry : Dentistry Uncensored with Howard Farran Nov 19, 2019

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In July of 2019, Christian Brutzer became president of Ivoclar Vivadent North America, taking over as long-time President Robert Ganley retired. Brutzer is also the global head for Ivoclar Vivadent Asia/Pacific region, and a member of Ivoclar Vivadent AG, Liechtenstein's corporate management board. He will maintain in those positions. A lawyer by education, Brutzer, who was born in Germany, furthered his experience during a post-graduate program in Japan. He has been in the dental industry since 1989, serving in various executive management positions in Europe, Southeast Asia, China, Japan, Australia and the USA. He speaks multiple languages, including German, English, and Japanese. Brutzer joined Ivoclar Vivadent AG in 2006 as director of sales Asia/Pacific. In July of 2011, he became a member of the organization's corporate management team. During his tenure leading the Asia/Pacific market for Ivoclar Viavdent, he oversaw the establishment of subsidiaries in Japan, China and India, and new representative offices in Korea and Indonesia. He led his team in building Ivoclar Vivadent's presence in mainland China from a representative office to one of the leading international dental companies in the Chinese market. He also helped maintain strong market positions over the years in Australia and New Zealand.

1294 Karen Daw "The OSHA Lady" on OSHA and Infection Control Training : Dentistry Uncensored with Howard Farran Nov 18, 2019

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Karen Daw is an award-winning national speaker, author of numerous articles and CE courses on safety in dentistry, and a consultant to practices across the country. She earned her BA from the Ohio State University and her MBA with concentrations in Healthcare Administration and Business Management. After graduation, Karen was recruited from the Emergency Department to her roles as Assistant Director of Sterilization Monitoring and Health and Safety Director for the OSU College of Dentistry. Karen draws on her rich background to educate audiences large and small on how NOT to do safety, and, best practices to avoid penalties, negative reviews and the 6 o'clock news!

1293 Successful Multi-Practice Ownership with Dr. Syed Rehman : Dentistry Uncensored with Howard Farran Nov 14, 2019

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Syed graduated with a Bachelors in Dental Surgery in India and decided to move to the United States for a better life. He and his gorgeous wife Ameena moved to Chicago and fell in love with it. After several struggles he got accepted into NYU Royal College of Surgeons' one year Oral Surgery certificate program for international Dentists. After completing that he joined University of Illinois at Chicago where he earned his DMD in the International Dentist Degree Program in 2015. After his graduation he associated for 4 different practices, figuring out different practice philosophies with his mentors and learning everything from building a practice to running a multi million dollar practice. He did his first practice in April 2016 in Chicago with 6 chairs and now is running 11 very successful practices hiring over 30 associates and 5 specialists. His goal is to make dentistry predictable, affordable, accessible and comfortable.

1292 Improve Your Practice Workflow with Matt Cooke & Kimeran Johnson : Dentistry Uncensored with Howard Farran Nov 13, 2019

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Matthew Cooke is the Vice President of Consulting Strategy at Call Box. For the past 10 years, Matt has worked with thousands of healthcare organizations to improve their strategic operations, optimize their caller experience, capitalize on marketing efforts, and streamline operational workflow. He's led numerous webinars and speaking engagements, specifically in the dental industry. Prior to his time at Call Box, Matt led project teams at Epic Systems, consulting with healthcare organizations of all sizes across the United States.

Kimeran Johnson is the Director of Client Acquisition at Scheduling Institute. For the past 15 years, Kimeran has worked with dentists and their teams to streamline processes in the practice around new patient acquisition. She helps them leverage data and training to produce greater results in marketing and team performance. Kimeran has experience in training, management and marketing. A fun fact is Kimeran trained Howard Farran's Today's Dental team a decade ago on the 5-Star New Patient Phone Training.

1291 Dr. Cyrus Tahmasebi on 3D Printing & Digital Technology : Dentistry Uncensored with Howard Farran Nov 12, 2019

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In his professional career Dr. Tahmasebi has done research and development work on laser whitening as the Medical Director of BriteSmile Company, introducing laser whitening globally. Subsequently, serving as C.E.O of Glamsmile in the U.S., U.K. and Canada, he then became the Vice President of Education as well as Research and Development at DenMat where he invented and brought many products to market including FirstFit Technologies. He continued the research and development of FirstFit at Viax Dental Technologies where he served as President and C.S.O. Today, Dr. Tahmasebi manages the FirstFit Technology for Global Distribution. In the course of his work at these companies he has introduced many products to dentistry, including a Diode laser, lesion detection light, the One Hour Veneer system, and most recently the invention of First Fit Minimally Invasive Technologies. He has appeared as a dental expert on CNN, CBS, ABC and other TV networks. He is recently featured on the cover of Inside Dentistry magazine. Dr. Tahmasebi also lectures globally on cosmetic dentistry as well as minimally invasive techniques.

1290 Dr. Kim Wright on the Importance of Hands-On C.E. : Dentistry Uncensored with Howard Farran Nov 11, 2019

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Kim Wright, DMD, MAGD is a 1989 graduate from Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland, Oregon. She was born and raised in Alaska, At 21 she decided she better go to college, not sure what she wanted to do but knew what she did not want to do and she set off in a path that landed her in dentistry. She has been involved in organized dentistry her entire career and what she is most passionate about is education. Bringing great speakers, topics and innovation to Portland to share with her colleagues. The past 18 months she has been immersed in helping form the Oregon AGD Foundation which has built the Oregon AGD Foundation Center, "Where service meets education."

1289 Carl Guthrie on the Current Dental Job Market : Dentistry Uncensored with Howard Farran Nov 08, 2019

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Carl Guthrie is with ETS Dental. He is the Regional Director of Recruiting covering the Southwestern U.S. including Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Oklahoma, and Hawaii. ETS Dental was founded in 2001 by Mark Kennedy and is headquartered in Roanoke, VA. They specialize in locating and placing General Dentists and Dental Specialists with independent practices across the country. They have conducted searches in all 50 states for thousands of practices seeking Associates, Partners, and Buyers. ETS Dental's recruiting team is made up of 6 general dentist recruiters and 2 dental specialist recruiters.

1288 Cloud-Based Practice Management with Kiltesh Patel : Dentistry Uncensored with Howard Farran Nov 07, 2019

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Kiltesh Patel is Founder and CEO at tab32, a cloud-based technology platform designed for better oral healthcare outcomes. The company provides the patient health record and practice management services for dental practices, and member outreach and education programs for population health. Prior to tab32, Kiltesh was the Director, Health Sciences at the University of California where he utilized data for medical informatics, genomics and translational science research activities. Earlier, he joined Mapquest.com/AOL as the Architect and was instrumental in developing migration strategies of legacy technologies and positioning products in highly competitive international markets.

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