Dentistry Uncensored with Howard Farran

Julie Parker was the first non-dentist to own a dental practice is Australia. She owned and managed her practice for 10 successful years, increasing turnover four-fold. Julie co-founded Julie Parker Practice Success to fill a gap in the market. She saw that the current practice management programs were often too expensive for small and start-up practices to afford. The JPPS Practice Management Pro...

Minal Sampat is a marketing consultant, public speaker, practicing dental hygienist, digital media fanatic and an enthusiastic shoe lover.   She was born in India, grew up in St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands and now lives on the East Coast.   She launched her company, Growth Management Marketing LLC, by breaking the Guinness World Record for the most simultaneous mouthwash swishers at one time with o...

Dr. Scott Drucker attended the University of Pennsylvania for both a Bachelors degree in Biology and a DMD. He graduated from dental school in 2013. Dr. Drucker then completed his residency in Periodontics with a Master of Science in Oral Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2016. He is currently a member of the American Dental Association, Illinois State Dental Society, Chicago De...

Born in Havana, Cuba and bi-lingual in English and Spanish, Dr. Bernard Fialkoff graduated with a DDS Degree at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1980. He received the Alpha Omega Award as class valedictorian and was elected to OKU Academic Honor Society. Dr. Fialkoff received his Periodontal and Dental Implant post-graduate board eligibility at the combined Memphis Veterans Admin...

Frank J. Milnar DDS, AAACD is a graduate from the University of Minnesota, School of Dentistry. He is an Accredited member of the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry and a Board Examiner for Accreditation.   Dr. Milnar maintains a full-time practice in St. Paul, Minnesota emphasizing appearance related dentistry. He has published numerous articles about the direct placement of composites, shade...

Gordon has over twenty years of professional business development, sales, marketing and corporate communications experience. He currently is the President & CEO of Sterngold Dental, LLC, a medical device manufacturing company serving the dental industry. Prior to this he was Vice President & General Manager at Sterngold Dental LLC. He previously held the position as Director of Marketing & E-Busin...

Dr. Allan Coopersmith practices cosmetic and general dentistry in Montreal Quebec Canada and together with his wife, Nathalie Fiset who is a hygienist invented the PerioTwist interdental cleaner and delivery device. Dr. Coopersmith Graduated with the Gold Medal  From McGill Dental School and went on to complete a general Practice residency program at Albert Einstein Medical Centre in Philadelphia...

Connie has always loved bookkeeping and feels she was born to the profession.  She actually maintained a handwritten ledger of her babysitting money when she was a kid.   When not working, she enjoys reading, walking with her yellow lab, or kayaking in the surrounding area. Maintaining a good work/life balance is very important to Connie, and providing a service that allows clients to reach that b...

Taking on the stale industry of dental marketing dominated by a one-sized fits all approach, Laura Maly and Michael Anderson are the young duo behind Wonderist Agency, a full-service marketing agency for dentists. A niche still crowded by old dudes with dated ideas, Laura and Michael are emerging in dental marketing as the new, fresh kids on the block with an approach that is so personalized you'd...

Duane Tinker is a former law enforcement officer/investigator for the Texas Dental Board. He investigated dentists for issues ranging from patient complaints to insurance/Medicaid fraud, drug diversion and even infection control problems. It is his experience that most dentists and their staff strive to do what is right when they know what 'right' is. He quickly recognized a huge gap between what...

Joel Karafin is Chief Operating Officer of XDR Radiology. After earning degrees in Mathematics and Semantics from California State University, he joined Logicon RDA, a defense industry think tank, where he worked with Douglas Yoon, DDS, developer of the Logicon Caries Detector. After leading the technology divisions at small businesses in a variety of industries, he joined Dr. Yoon at XDR. There,...

Kevin Earle has been the executive director of the Arizona Dental Association since 2008. In that role, he serves as the principal lobbyist for dentistry and better oral health care at the State Legislature. He is the former executive director of the Arizona Board of Dental Examiners.   Before his move to Arizona, he spent twenty years regulating professionals in the New Jersey Division of Consume...

Dr. Karah started her career in Counseling. Within mental health, she was hired into an Executive Director role, where she discovered leadership excited her.    After marrying her dentist husband in 2002, their adventures continued in Europe while Dr. David Maloley served as an Army officer in the dental corps. Karah worked as a civilian contractor for the Army in Germany and with the VA while liv...

In 1977, Dr. Kolnick received his dental degree, cum laude, from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa where he was awarded the Gold Medal of the South African Dental Association.   He was the first graduate of the Dental School to be awarded the prestigious University Scholarship for Overseas Postgraduate Study.   In 1982, he graduated from the postdoctoral endodontic program at Colum...

Dr. Whitehouse graduated from the University of Iowa Dental School in 1970. He was an Air Force dentist in Okinawa for two years, practiced in his home town of Peoria, Illinois for one year and moved into a practice in California as an associate in 1973. He opened his own practice by buying out a large practice for the patients, and subsequently, two other practices bringing the patients into his...

Paula Harriss is a nationally recognized motivational speaker, life coach, and business coach. She is an expert in Sales Training, Marketing, Cross-training, Life Coaching and a keynote speaker for the University of TN Student-Athletes, Dental Boot Kamp, The Power for Life, as well as Pac Live, eWomenNetwork, and the Chamber of Commerce.  The John Maxwell company chose Paula as a Founder's Circle...

Travis Hornsby is the founder of Student Loan Planner. He has personally advised hundreds of clients with over $60 million in student loans, of which $26 million is dentists. He's saved his average dentist client over $100,000 by optimizing student loan repayment through in depth analysis of all their available options. Before starting Student Loan Planner, he was a bond trader for one of the worl...

James Anderson, DMD is a practicing dentist and president of Lakeview Dental with locations in Roy and Syracuse, Utah.   He is the CEO and founder of the nation's largest dental billing company, eAssist Dental Solutions (www.dentalbilling.com). James frequently lectures on the business of dentistry at seminars and CE events nationally and internationally.   eAssist Dental Solutions was awarded an...

Dr. Gary Severance is a 1987 graduate of the University of Minnesota, School of Dentistry and Chief Marketing Officer for E4D Technologies. Gary has worked throughout his career with several innovative dental companies assisting in the development and commercialization of products that improve dentistry through quality, efficiency and productivity. An esteemed speaker and author, Dr. Severance als...

Halfway through podcast episode #695 with Dr. Mark Hyman at the 15th Annual townie Meeting, Dr. David Hornbrook of www.davidhornbrook.com stopped by to talk dental!   David Hornbrook, DDS, FAACD, FASDA, a gifted clinician and product researcher turned mentor, guides meeting participants to the realization that they, too, possess the ability to practice aesthetic dentistry at the very highest level...

How and Why Great Dental Websites Came to Exist : "In 1999, my father, Dr. Mark Gladnick , asked me whether he needed to put his practice on "The Internet." We launched his first dental website a month or two later, and it worked well for a long time. But by late 2007, my dad's dental website was looking outdated. Since I had moved on with my career (working as a Sr. Software Engineer for various...

Dr. Mark E. Hyman is a renowned, full-time practicing dentist in Greensboro, NC, and a public speaker whose work is characterized by his warmth, enthusiasm, sense of humor, and passion for dentistry.   As an accomplished seminar speaker, he has lectured throughout North America at every major dental meeting. For the past thirteen years, Dentistry Today magazine has selected Dr. Hyman as one of the...

Smile Maker since 1979. Thirty years in dentistry has combined my education in dental hygiene and marketing/PR nicely. I've been coaching doctors to achieve business success since 1996. Our systems are based on clinical excellence, team communication, and streamlining data. As a public speaker, I've had the opportunity to share the stage with Tony Robbins, and most keynote speakers in Dentistry. F...

Dr. Nordstrom grew up on a farm in Viking, Alberta. His father, Dr. Bryan Nordstrom, has been the dentist in Viking since 1980. Dr. Nordstrom graduated from High School in Viking and then attended the University of Alberta in Edmonton where he achieved his Bachelor of Medical Science degree, and then his Doctor of Dental Surgery degree in 2005.   After Dental School, Dr. Nordstrom moved to Whiteho...

Bruce B. Baird, DDS is a well respected cosmetic and family dentist in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. His practice is located in Granbury, Texas. Dr. Baird's expertise as an implant dentist has afforded him the skill to perform dental implant surgery and restorations since the mid-1980s. In 1990, he established the Texas Centers for Implant Dentistry, a mobile practice that allowed him to work with m...