Dentistry Uncensored with Howard Farran

Dr. Billie Zoldan is an Orthodontist who lives and practices in New York City. She is passionate about Orthodontics and has high volume offices where she treats patients with traditional braces and appliances as well as clear aligners. She is also one of the select Orthodontists for Candid Co which is a direct to consumer clear aligner product. She would love to see Orthodontics become available a...

Zara Basiri is a Dental Marketing Consultant and former Dental Nurse and patient treatment plan coordinator. She founded Zara Basiri Digital Dental Marketing Agency back in 2016 and currently serve clients from around the world including US, UK and Australia. Her dentist client's revenue increase by average 34% to 40% within the first 6 months of working with her and her team. Join the community o...

Vikram Vora is the CEO and Founding Partner of Sabka Dentist. He started his career with Lion Bridge Capital as a project manager, moved on to ICICI Bank (India's largest private sector bank) as a knowledge management executive, and worked with his father's firm before starting Sabka Dentist. Sabka Dentist is one of the largest chain of dental clinics in India, operating 100 Clinics in Mumbai, Pun...

Eric D. Kukucka is president and owner of The Denture Center, a network of clinics currently comprised of three facilities in Southwestern Ontario. Eric is at once a prominent sales strategist and advocate for market best practices and a skillful oral health professional dedicated to creating high quality digital removable, fixed and fixed-detachable implant prosthetic restorations. In addition to...

Described as an educational entertainer, Gerry completed pediatric dental residency at Emory University, 1979 and orthodontics at Northwestern University, 1981 under the direction of Dr. Hal Perry. For 39 years, from 1981 to 2016, Gerry had an exclusive orthodontic practice in Atlanta, Georgia. He is a Diplomat of The American Board of Orthodontics and Fellow of The American College of Dentists. C...

Dr. Harrell graduated from UAB Dental School in 1975 then pursued his orthodontic residency at the University of Pennsylvania in 1977. Dr. Harrell has been interested in 3D imaging since the early 1980's and also how early airway issues in children can cause altered growth and development, malocclusions and co-morbidities from sleep disorders later in life if left undetected and untreated. The fac...

As the CEO of dental practice management software company Maxim Software Systems, Alex Zlatin helps struggling dental professionals take control of their practices and reach the next level of success with responsible leadership strategies. Leveraging over 13 years of management and consulting experience, he empowers organizations to become more productive and profitable based on the belief that su...

Danielle McKinley is a Certified HIPAA Advisor with 10+ years of experience in risk management focusing on HIPAA, PCI, OSHA and Cyber Security. She is the founder of The HIPAA Chick and one of the founding members of PCIHIPAA. Danielle has a passion for removing barriers like HIPAA compliance for Dentist so they can focus on patients without putting their business at risk. Join the community on De...

Donald A. Curtis DMD, FACP is a Professor in the Department of Preventive and Restorative Dental Sciences at UCSF. He is board certified and is past president of the Pacific Coast Society for Prosthodontics and American Board of Prosthodontics. He has published in Head and Neck, Bone, Journal of Biomechanics, and numerous basic science, medical and education journals. His current research has focu...

Axel Klarmeyer is the CEO at BEGO Dental and has a long-standing success story at the company, a leading dental device manufacturer with more than 130 years of tradition and dental expertise, offering conventional as well as digital solutions. Axel Klarmeyer joined the BEGO team in the year of 1995, as a junior salesman for the classical dental portfolio. Since the beginning of 2019 he bears the o...

Dr. Poyak is originally from outside of Cleveland, Ohio. After he graduated from Case Western Reserve University School of Dentistry, he married his wife, Susan, and they moved to Virginia Beach where he served as a dentist in the navy. He became interested in doing orthodontics on a limited basis in New Hampshire and continued to learn whenever he could about more advanced ortho procedures. His d...

Keith Miller has been a leader in the DSO industry since 2002. He helped lead a large Dental Service Organization through significant growth over the 13 years he was a principal in the business. In 2017 he started a revolutionary new DSO called Partnerships for Dentists. After a ton of learnings in the DSO arena he helped create an alternative model to the traditional DSO. Partnerships for Dentist...

Kristi Gray, an expert in dental billing and office management, is the founder of ClaimsNest. With 25 years managing and working in private dental practices and a DSO she knows what it takes to make sure your practice is profiting for the work that you're doing. She is passionate about educating dentists about the things they don't realize they need to know. She has attended multiple training clas...

Dr. Ackah graduated from dental school in 2009. After dental school he realized he needed more education to be the super dentist he wanted to be, so he went on to get his GPR training at the Pittsburgh VA System. After working for one year as a general dentist, he realized he loved surgery more than dentures, so he applied and got accepted into the Pitt periodontal residency. Following graduation...

Dr. Marc Schlenoff is VP of Clinical Development at Tend, the dental brand bringing a hospitality mindset to oral health. Prior to Tend, Dr. Schlenoff was the Director of the Advanced Education in General Dentistry Program at Columbia University College of Dental Medicine. Since 2004, he has been an instructor at NYU's Aesthetic Advantage Hands-On Symposium run by Dr. Larry Rosenthal. The Consumer...

Dr. Buske grew up in Minnesota playing hockey and lacrosse. He moved to Texas to finish his undergrad at Texas A&M and then completed his DDS at Baylor College of Dentistry in 1997. He lives in the small town of Granbury, just outside of Fort Worth, where he practices in a group with 2 other doctors. Dr. Buske primarily focuses on Dental Implants, Full Mouth rehabilitations, & Quadrant Dentistry....

Dr. Mongrain is a 1979 graduate of the University of Florida, College of Dentistry. He currently practices part time in Tulsa, OK and is a Director of Clinical Advocacy for Heartland Dental, Digital Clinical Technologies, Scanners and Labs. He is a consultant to the University of Oklahoma College of Dentistry. Dr. Mongrain has spoken and published internationally on restorative, preventive dentist...

Dr. Faiella is the Chief Dental Officer for Overjet, Inc., a leading provider of AI-powered technology in Dentistry. He is a Past-President of the American Dental Association, and currently serves as Director and Treasurer of the American Board of Periodontology and as Treasurer of the American College of Dentists. He received his graduate training in Periodontology as an NIH Post-Doctoral Fellow...

Dr. Leanna Shetler and Dr. Matt Dahar were destined to be best friends. In fact, their dads were best friends growing up. They played football together at University of Pittsburgh and were co-residents in Orthodontic Residency as well. Their families were connected before they were even born. As they grew up together, they naturally became life-long friends. Once they graduated high school, they b...

Marcin Dolecki is a graduate of the Medical University of Lodz, Poland and runs a private practice in Legionowo, Poland. For over 25 years he has been a national and international lecturer. He is the author of numerous publications, including two books: "Teeth Whitening" and "Marketing and Management in the Dental Office." as well as the former editor and translator of "CRA Newsletter." He is a ce...

Dr. Dean Nicholas, better known as Dr. Dino, is a general dentist in Lombard, IL practicing in the western suburbs of Chicago. His practice is known as Dr. Dino's Dental Oasis. He is a 1986 graduate of Loyola University School of Dentistry with a DDS degree. His patients age in range from 2 to 103 where he treats children of all ages! Dr. Dino provides small town comforts in a high-tech environmen...

Dennis J. Leonard is President & CEO of Delta Dental of Massachusetts. He had been President of Delta Dental of Massachusetts since 2011. Prior to that he served in many senior leadership roles such as Chief Sales Officer, Regional President and Vice President of Sales & Marketing. Mr. Leonard has over 38 years of experience in the health care industry, including 16 years with Blue Cross Blue Shie...

Michael is currently a second-year dental student studying at the University of Iowa College of Dentistry. He graduated summa cum laude from Brigham Young University in 2019, where he earned a bachelor's degree in exercise science. He grew up in Topeka, Kansas as part of a family of nine. In May 2018, he married his wonderful wife, Paige. She is an incredibly talented artist and works hard to help...

Dr. Wiltbank attended Dental School at Oregon Health and Sciences University, graduating in the class of 1998. He returned to school at the University of Texas, Health Sciences Center at San Antonio, where he completed a residency in Endodontics, class of 2007. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Endodontics. He is a member of and volunteers in leadership for the American Association of End...

Dr. Holtzclaw is board certified by both the American Board of Periodontology and the International Congress of Oral Implantologists. He has published over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles, textbook chapters, and books. As a matter of fact, Dr. Holtzclaw recently authored the very first textbook ever published on pterygoid dental implants. Dr. Holtzclaw is a past recipient of the Excellence in Re...