Dentistry Uncensored With Howard Farran

Colin Carr is the founder and CEO of CARR, the nation’s leading provider of commercial real estate services for healthcare tenants and buyers. Every year, thousands of healthcare practices trust CARR to achieve the most favorable terms on their lease and purchase negotiations. Colin has been involved in commercial real estate since 2000 and has personally completed over 1,000 transactions. He is a licensed real estate broker in ten states. Colin lectures and trains thousands of healthcare professionals, administrators, business owners, students and more on an annual basis throughout the country at national meetings, conventions, study clubs, associations, universities and more.

Howard recently spoke to members of the Connecticut State Dental Association and gave advice for new dentists entering the profession in the wake of COVID-19.

Dr. Sulman Ahmed is the Founder and CEO of DECA Dental. He is instrumental in shaping and overseeing DECA Dental’s growth, strategy and culture. In 2008, Dr. Ahmed opened his first dental office and set out to create a truly patient centered model. His belief in putting patients first is the fundamental backbone of DECA Dental’s core values and patient care delivery model. Ensuring adequate training for doctors, the very best materials being placed in the patient’s mouth, weekend hours and multiple specialists working under one roof are just the beginning of his vision. On a more personal note Dr. Ahmed has achieved many honors and awards, one of the more notable ones being named as a finalist for the 2016 EY Entrepreneur of the Year, and winner of the 2017 EY Entrepreneur of the Year. He is a sought-after speaker at several leadership, entrepreneurial and motivational conferences. Dr. Ahmed obtained his Doctor of Dental Medicine degree from the Tufts School of Dental Medicine in Boston.

Emmet Scott is CEO and co-founder of Community Dental Partners™ a DSO supporting the dental practices, Smile Magic Dentistry and Braces™ – a Chuck E. Cheese like dental practice for kids. His business partner, Dr. Chad Evans, has been his best friend since they were 2 years old. Emmet is also the host of DSO Secrets, a podcast focused on building the best DSOs and group practices in the industry. He created a Facebook group by the same name for leaders in the dental group industry to discuss some of the most difficult components of running a DSO.

Shawn Zajas is Founder of Zana, the electric toothbrush program, redefined.  Shawn is also the cofounder of The Authentic Dentist – a company he started with his partner Dr. Allison House.  At the core of The Authentic Dentist is the belief that the answer to the current challenges in dentistry, is dentists discovering that their greatest asset is their personal brand – and that forming that brand out of their authentic selves is the best strategy for success in dentistry today.

Jenn Rhoades is the CEO & Co-Founder of Smile Virtual. Born and raised in San Diego where she received her Bachelor of Arts in Marketing from National University. She has over 20 years of experience in Marketing, 10 of those being in the dental industry. Back in 2012 she joined the team at Harris Dental in Phoenix, Arizona and became their Marketing Director. She helped grow their practice and expand it into multiple locations. After years of working with Dr. Brain Harris and collaborating on innovative ways to attract and convert ideal patients, they came up with the idea of virtual consults. Jenn has been able to organically grow Smile Virtual from an idea on a whiteboard to a virtual consult software company helping hundreds of dentists do more of the dentistry they love. She currently lives in Phoenix with her husband, 2 kids and a yellow lab.

Dr. Robert James Bray attended the University of Maryland School of Dentistry where he earned his Doctorate in Dental Surgery. Dr. Bray went on to obtain his Certificate of Orthodontics at the Eastman Dental Center in Rochester, New York, completing his M.S at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry with a major course in genetics. An active member of the community, Dr. Bray has served on Shore Medical Center’s, Howard S. Stainton Society and Shore Tomorrow fundraising campaigns for over 16 years. Dr. Bray is the current C.E.O of the Schulman Study Group and AAO Foundation National Planned Giving Chair. He has served on the Brigantine Board of Education, including working as the president of the Board for eleven years. Dr. Bray continues to serve as an Associate Clinical Professor at the Temple University Kornberg School of Dentistry in the Orthodontic Department and a visiting professor at the Eastman Institute of Oral Health, Rochester, New York. Chris Vranas, CAE, is the Executive Dire

Dr. Howard Farran stopped by the studio to visit Drs. Phil Gordon and Justin Moody, and it turned into a room full of doctors joining in - Drs. Chris Barrett, Wade Pilling, Steven Vorholt, James Sanderson, Raj Sheth, and Chris Epperson. Just a great group of docs talking dentistry.

Dr. Kwang-Bum Park graduated from dental college of Kyungpook National University in 1985 and received his PhD degree in 1995 with the thesis about ‘the periodontal regeneration’. In 1993, he started seminars for private dentists to teach clinical periodontics and implant dentistry. Until now, more than 1,500 dentists completed this course in Korea. From 2000 to 2001, he went to the department of periodontics, school of dentistry, UCLA as a visiting scholar. After he came back from UCLA, he opened the biggest dental hospital called “MIR dental hospital” in Korea with 70 operatories and more than 20 dentists and 120 employees at Daegu, Korea in 2002. With great success of the first “MIR dental hospital”, many dentists wanted to join and share the know-how and brand name. So he made a dental hospital network named “MIR Network”. Now it has 22 branches and more than 1000 employees and doctors in South Korea in 2009. Almost at the same time with the opening of MIR dental hospital, he began a company called “MegaG

Hillary's first job was in a dental office. Both of her parents were dentists and she grew up filing, sterilizing, mowing the lawn and answering phones at her parents' practice in the Twin Cities metro area. Almost every family vacation was wherever the ADA conference happened to be that year and has spent her entire life surrounded by dentists. After helping her parents with their transition, Hillary founded Pine Lake Dental Law & Transitions in order to help other dentists through the transition process among other legal struggles they may face including employment and business law issues and reviewing & drafting associate contracts. Pine Lake is now one of the fastest growing dental specific law and transition firms in the Midwest, participating in around 20-25 transitions per year in Minnesota alone. Hillary has spoken at dental conferences across the country, presented for podcasts and webinars and has written and contributed to several articles in dental magazines across the country including No

In the early ’90s, Frank Hammes joined the family business. After promoting an after-market cabin air filter the company had developed for Mercedes-Benz automobiles, Frank Hammes turned his attention to portable room air cleaners. Dissatisfied with existing products, he set out to build a line of portable air purifiers with medical grade air cleaning performance. Frank Hammes and a small team of Swiss and German engineers worked for four years on the project. In the spring of 1998, IQAir shipped its first HealthPro air purifier from its Swiss factory. IQAir air purifiers were initially available only in Europe and Asia, but became available in the United States in 2000. 

After three years as an IT consultant at Accenture, Rick Cohen joined Benco in 1994 to create Painless, the industry’s first windows-based e-commerce software. Since then, he’s taken on increasing responsibilities within Benco, focusing on Information Technology, Logistics, Clarion Financial, and our private brand. He is Co-Chair of the Benco Family Foundation, a trustee of WVIA public television and public radio, and a Director of the Dental Trade Alliance Foundation.

Dr Kim Harms personal mission is to help dentists navigate the emotional issues they will face in life (and in the next year or so specifically).  If she can help dentists understand that they can’t control what calamities or catastrophes they will encounter in life, but they can control how they prepare, manage and cope with them. She spent 12 days in three hospitals with COVID symptoms and shares some funny stories about PPE use in different hospitals, life in the COVID ward and the different responses doctors had when the tests say one thing and the symptoms say another.  She was a National Spokesperson for the ADA during the AIDS crisis and can relate lessons learned at that time about universal precautions developed for bloodborne pathogens to the future we face managing deadly respiratory pathogens.  

It's a great honour to have Dr Howard Farran from USA along with Dr Agim Hymer from Australia, Dr Anil Shrestha from UK, Dr Abhay Lamba from India and Dr Neil Pande from Nepal to discuss various issues and the solutions to restart dentistry once again after lockdown. As private practitioners from varied environment, they will share their challenges and possible remedies to help dentists all over the world to practice safer and effective care towards their patients, staff, themselves and the environment.@Howard Farran @ednapkath The opinions discussed here today are the personal reflections of the speakers only and do not necessarily represent the statements of the various government, professional and regulatory bodies of the various nations from which the speakers are presenting. The invited speakers have no personal or financial interests in the matters discussed unless otherwise explicitly disclosed.

Dr. Howard Farran joins Ken Serota DDS, MMSc Endodontist to discuss post-COVID-19 and how it impacts our future and the future of the industry.  

Mr. Manji is the co-founder and chairman of Spear, providing the strategic vision and corporate leadership behind the industry's premier destination education center and digital learning platform, which he uses — along with his numerous speaking engagements, published articles and popular blog — to reach thousands of dentists every year.

How to reopen your dental office after the outbreak.

Dr. Howard Farran joins World's Top 100 Doctors 2020 Global Interdisciplinary Summit to discuss post-COVID-19 and how it impacts our future and the future of the industry.

Dr. Ryan Hungate is a practicing orthodontist and the founder/CEO of Simplifeye, Inc. Prior to going into dentistry, Dr. Hungate worked for Apple, Inc. designing the Apple retail workflow with industry veteran and Apple SVP, Ron Johnson. He then attended Indiana University Dental School for his DDS, and completed his specialty training in Orthodontics at the University of Southern California. Throughout his academic years, Dr. Hungate aspired to create a better workflow for university clinics and eventually private practitioners. He is responsible for pioneering new methods of orthognathic surgical planning and created a patented and commercialized 3D surgical splint that increases surgical accuracy. Dr. Hungate is now creating new ways to implement innovative live chat technology that allows doctors to schedule more new patients and even hold instant teledentistry visits. He is also using modern payment infrastructure to reduce overhead and bad debt. He currently lives in New York, NY with his amazing wife L