Dentistry Uncensored with Howard Farran

Competition makes everything better from Dinosaurs to DSOs.

Dr. April Patterson, more affectionately known as Dr. Patty, is a highly-trained and forward-thinking cosmetic dentist. She attended Florida State University and earned her Bachelor's degree in biology before completing Dental School at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, named one of the top three dental schools by U.S. News & World Report, to obtain her dentistry doctorate. Dr. Patty traine...

Howard recently met up with Ivoclar Vivadent's Don Bell and Priscilla Esparza on their Dental Innovations Tour to discuss the company's latest offerings in dental technology and where the dental profession is headed as we come out of the Coved-19 pandemic. Join the community on Dentaltown at https://www.dentaltown.com

Dr. Mazyar Moshiri maintains his private practice in St. Louis, MO. He is an Assistant Clinical Professor at the Saint Louis University Center for Advanced Dental Education, where his lectures and clinical oversight focus on the Invisalign appliance system. He was featured as a lead educator for Align's Beep Bite solutions and Class II kit. Dr. Moshiri is a Diplomate of the American Board of Ortho...

Jay has over 23 years of corporate sales and leadership experience spanning over several industries including corporate consulting, online advertising, finance and healthcare. He specializes in building processes to maximize revenue growth for new products and services – in particular, companies whose product or technology is disruptive to the current market landscape. At Sunbit since the very ear...

Located in rural southern Georgia, Dr. Bentley and his team began with humble roots in 2014. One location quickly grew into five - an expanding footprint sparked by a commitment to employing innovative technologies, supporting continuing education, and unwavering commitment to providing high-quality patient care. From 2014 to 2018, the original practices experienced unprecedented growth, including...

Brian Hanks is a national transitions expert for both buyers and sellers directly involved in hundreds of dental transitions in all fifty states. He is the author of three books and is regularly featured in various publications. Brian is an accountant and Certified Financial Planner, and has an MBA from the University of Michigan and an undergraduate degree from Brigham Young University. Join the...

Dr. Pooneh Ramezani is the CEO and founder of PDM. Dr. Ramezani is a seasoned dentist of over 25 years. She has built multiple successful, top producing dental practices in California and has sold them for multimillions of dollars. Dr. Ramezani has consulted extensively for numerous publications including the Entrepreneur, USA today, US Weekly and Intouch magazines. She graduated from University o...

Greg Pellegrom is the Co-Founder & CEO of SmileSnap, a Virtual Consultation software for the dental industry. His 15 years as an accomplished Orthodontic Sales Professional with 3M Unitek, Opal Orthodontics, and Acceledent has given him tremendous insight into the rapidly changing landscape of dentistry. It was during this time that Greg recognized the difficulty many of his doctors were having, a...

David Harris may have the coolest job in dentistry - he gets to chase, and catch, those who steal from dentists. A rule-breaker in his youth, David changed his direction and has spent much of his adult life in the world of investigation and enforcement, where he uses his unrivaled ability to understand the criminal thought process to help educate and protect dentists. David is the Chief Executive...

Dr. Donaldson received his baccalaureate degree from the University of British Columbia and his Doctorate in Clinical Pharmacy from the University of Washington. He completed a residency at Vancouver General Hospital, and has practiced as a clinical pharmacy specialist, clinical coordinator and director of pharmacy services at many healthcare organizations in both Canada and the United States. He...

Howard recently sat down with Landon Allen and students from the Midwestern University Dental Business Club to talk about his life in dentistry and share advice with the next generation entering the profession. Join the community on Dentaltown at https://www.dentaltown.com

Samantha Leonard has been in the Dental industry for fifteen years. She has worked every role, worn every hat and mastered all the traits that eventually lead her to become an Operational Manager with a well respected and world-renowned orthodontist, Dr. Sam Daher. Together, they started and built a multi-million-dollar practice from scratch and expanded to 6 locations across the country. Her mana...

Smile Doctors is the largest Orthodontic DSO in the industry formed in September 2015 by Drs. Scott Law, Dana Fender and Greg Goggans. With an eye to preserve the profession of Orthodontics by raising on the bar on how patients are treated both in the mouth as a people - our motto is "We love people first and straighten teeth second." With growth coming through affiliations with the best doctors a...

Grant Stucki is an oral and maxillofacial surgeon practicing in Denver, CO. He did his dental training at UCLA and his surgery training at the U of Illinois in Chicago. He spends his non-extraction time doing an oral surgery podcast in the hopes of learning from other surgeons. He spends the rest of his waking hours raising his 6 children with his beautiful wife Bryn. He thinks he can convince at...

Dr. Costes is founder of the Dental Success Institute, a company committed to helping dentists to achieve their full potential, while recapturing their passion for dentistry. He is also the Co-founder and CEO of Dental Success Network, a positive and collaborative group of nearly 1,000 dentists that is focused on providing its members with all of the tools and resources necessary to excel within t...

Jesse Pelletier MD, FACS completed his ophthalmology residency at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary and fellowship training in cornea, external disease and refractive surgery at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute. He is the founder of Ocean Ophthalmology Group, a private multispecialty practice located in Miami, FL. Dr. Pelletier has written and spoken extensively on diseases of the ocular surface,...

Nick Greenfield is the CEO of Candid, an oral health care company focused on redefining the orthodontics category with the first ever clear aligner system geared toward telehealth-first care. In addition to founding Candid, Nick helped to start Redesign Health, a venture studio focused on building the next generation of healthcare companies which has raised $250 million dollars since inception and...

Phillip Zelmanow earned his dental degree from the Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, after earning his bachelor's degree from SUNY Albany. He has taken numerous postgraduate education courses, specifically selecting courses focusing on full mouth rehabilitation. Recent training in restoration of complex implant cases allows him to give patients rock-solid replacements for missing teeth....

Dr. Horton was born and raised in Athens, Greece. He received a degree in biology from Pacific Lutheran University, and later a Doctor of Dental Surgery degree from the University of Washington. As a partner in the Affordable Dental Care network, Dr. Horton focuses on advanced surgical procedures including but not limited to: IV sedation, dental implants, implant dentures, wisdom teeth, bone graft...

Every day, for 11 years in a row, Jim Boyd woke up with a headache. As a dental student at USC, he was the senior resident in their TMD clinic, but the classic splint therapy that he was taught somehow allowed his own headaches to intensify as he simply clenched harder on the splint than without one. Three years into private practice Dr. Boyd determined that it wasn't his occluSION that was the ca...

Howard joins University of Toronto dental student Akhil Chawla on the Majestic Mutt Podcast and talks about getting started in dentistry, getting his MBA, starting Dentaltown, and the current state of the dental profession. Join the community on Dentaltown at https://www.dentaltown.com

Lane Theriault is the CEO of Independence Dental, a highly unconventional DSO that is looking to partner with dentists across the US. He founded Independence Dental in 2020 in partnership the Firmament Group, a private equity firm based in New York. Prior to launching Independence, Lane was a founder and director of a Canadian dental platform, 123Dentist, which started with only 13 clinics in 2017...

Patrick McKeown was educated at Trinity College Dublin, completing his clinical training in Russia. In 2002, he was accredited as a breathing coach by renowned physician Dr. Konstantin Buteyko. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology, Patrick's work has appeared in international medical journals and is published by top literary publishers. Since 2002, Patrick has helped tens of thousands of peopl...

Gregory Dell is the managing partner of Dell Disability Lawyers and for more than 30 years his law firm has helped hundreds of dentists nationwide to collect long term disability insurance benefits. Mr. Dell is passionate about helping people to take on large insurance companies so that they get the benefits they contracted for. Mr. Dell has established a reputation as a disability insurance exper...