Dentistry Uncensored with Howard Farran

Nico Dato serves as Head of Marketing at Podium, an online review management platform that allows businesses to generate and maintain online reviews on Google, Facebook, and many more. Nico received his BS in Economics from the University of Utah, and he continues to fuse his passion for statistics, design, and digital marketing to produce measurable results.   www.Podium.com

Tom is a specialist in dental transitions planning and practice coaching. He is fee-based and NOT a broker. Tom has been coaching dentists, exclusively, for over eighteen years.   The goal at Thomas M. Cooper & Associates is to help doctors increase the wealth in their practices. This doesn't mean just increasing the monetary value of the practice; but increasing the life freedom of the doctor and the team.   Tom co-developed the Mercer Transitions Company; making it the premier transitions planning company. After MTC was acquired by a private equity firm, Tom formed Thomas M. Cooper & Associates and has continued to work with private clients.   Tom earned his BA at the University of Southern California (Phi Beta Kappa) and his law degree from Loyola Law School. He also earned his Chartered Life Underwriter and Chartered Financial Consultant degrees from the American College.   www.thomasmcooperandassociates.com

About The Millennial Dentist Podcast: Ultimately, this all began as a couple buddies sitting around talking about dentistry and trying to figure out how to make it. Well, we have a long way to go before we make it, but we do know that the collaborative approach of learning from each other will help us get there!   We will be the first ones to admit we don’t know everything and probably don’t know the half of it!   The three of us have been very fortunate to have great mentors and this podcast is really just a way for us to pay it forward. We will try to interview smarter people, give a millennial perspective to different issues in dentistry, and provide a little entertainment along the way!   At the end of the day our goal is that all dentists, both new and seasoned, young and old, male or female, from all over the world will be encouraged by what we have to say!   We would love to hear your feedback and thoughts so please don’t hesitate to reach out to us. So sit back, crack a cold one, and enjoy!   www.MillennialDentist.com

Debora Carrier is the founder and CEO of Twice as Nice Uniforms. Cofounder of The CPR Sisters, a practicing dental hygienist and fashion model. Debora has 38 years experience as a clinical dental hygienist. Her clinical settings range from large group practices to smaller offices, specializing in the care and treatment of adults with mild to severe disabilities.     The CPR Sisters was co founded in 2001 by Debora and her sister Darla. They have worked hand in hand with the community to raise awareness of sudden cardiac arrest in children, the importance of early CPR, and the placement of AEDs in public areas. They also partnered with AHA, through a grant, to train as many lay people as possible in their community. And worked extensively with the Nader Parman Memorial Foundation to pass legislation to place at least one AED in all Georgia public schools. In 2014 Debora developed and patented a temperature regulating, moisture wicking, antimicrobial uniform and founded Twice as Nice Uniforms.  In addition to her many years working as a dental hygienist she was also a high fashion model. She took her experience and love of fashion to NYC where she worked with and learned from industry experts about fabrics, fit, and manufacturing before setting out to create a new stylish, technologically advanced approach to medical and dental apparel.   Debora has been featured in RDH magazine, Dentistry Today, Dental Explorer, DentalIQ, Atlanta Best Self, and winner of Apparel Magazines Most Innovative Company of 2015. She is member of the Crest Smile Council, partnered with AACD, NCN, Mr RDH, Smiles at Sea and has participated in various podcasts, seminars, and fashion shows over the two past years. She has also partnered with Crest/Oral B and Atlanta Dental Supply to offer continuing education/fashion shows to the dental community. She is a member of ADHA, OSAP, NCN, and Launchpad. A percentage of Twice as Nice Uniforms sales go to support the National Cancer Network Foundation.   www.twiceasniceuniforms.com

Dr. Effie Habsha is a Prosthodontist practicing in a multidisciplinary practice in Toronto, Canada.  She earned her DDS degree from the University of Toronto.  Upon graduation, she completed a one year General Practice Residency at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, ON.  Dr. Habsha received her Diploma in Prosthodontics and Master of Science degree, both from the University of Toronto.  Dr. Habsha is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Department of Dentistry, Eastman Institute for Oral Health at the University of Rochester Medical Center. She has served as an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto and currently instructs both at the undergraduate and graduate level in Prosthodontics at U of T.  Dr. Habsha is a Professor at George Brown College of Applied Arts and Technology and is the On-staff Prosthodontist at MedCan clinic in Toronto. She holds an appointment as Staff Prosthodontist at Mount Sinai Hospital where she instructs the dental residents and is involved in various clinical research projects. Dr. Habsha is a Fellow of the Royal College of Dentists of Canada (RCDC) and is an examiner and Section Head for the Oral Examination in Prosthodontics for the RCDC. She is an Associate Fellow of the Academy of Prosthodontics and a  Fellow of The Pierre Fauchard Academy and holds memberships in numerous Prosthodontic organizations and societies.  She lectures both nationally and internationally on various Prosthodontic topics and maintains a private practice limited to Prosthodontics and Implant Dentistry in midtown Toronto.   www.buildyoursmile.com

Amol Nirgudkar helps dentists grow their practices and reach their goals.  He is in an unusual position to offer practical insights. As a certified public accountant, business consultant, author, entrepreneur, and owner of a dental practice, he has 19 years of experience in working with dental practices, both large and small.    Through the three companies he founded, Amol has served more than 500 dentists across the United States. With Dentist Profit Systems, founded in 2013, he successfully challenged the common ways that dental practices marketed their practices online. Dentist Profit Systems also created new ways for dental practices to measure the effectiveness of their marketing investments.   Through that work, Amol saw firsthand a growth challenge that all dental practices face. No matter how successfully they may market their practice, they lose many new patients because their front office is ineffective in handling phone inquiries.   To help solve that problem, he founded Patient Prism in 2015 as the world's first immersive call visualization platform. The software uses both machine learning and human learning to evaluate the way dental offices handle phone calls in near real time. It has helped more than a hundred dental offices convert more new patient calls into booked appointments. Amol co-invented two patent-pending technologies used in Patient Prism. He continues to work with artificial intelligence and machine learning to help dentists build commercially successful practices. He wrote and published a paperback book called Profitable Niches in General Dentistry (2014). He also authored and published an ebook titled 6 Secrets to More Patients & Higher Profits. Both are available through Amazon.com.    In his spare time, Amol also runs a quantitative hedge fund, manages a dental practice and travels the country with his 12 year old piano prodigy daughter to piano competitions.   www.patientprism.com

Scott Westermeier, DDS, FICOI Scott is a 3rd generation dentist and has maintained a private practice for over 30 years. In 2008, Scott launched a new practice growth & marketing strategy that he perfected with the help of his team. This new strategy, utilizing patient education seminars, helped attract more implant cases to his practice, significantly growing his practice, reducing overhead, maximizing time efficiency and reducing insurance dependence. Scott is a nationally and internationally recognized speaker, lecturing on the topic of dental marketing.   Maria R. Miecyjak, COO Maria has over 20 years of experience in managing and growing a dental practice. As practice administrator to Dr. Scott Westermeier, she has been instrumental in growing their practice from one office to eight, and from a single dentist to 17 associates. Maria believes that anything with the right attitude and it is that philosophy which has allowed her to implement new and innovative marketing practices into her offices with great success.   The Empowered Practice The Empowered Practice moves successful practices to exceptional. Creating powerful growth starts by redefining success and laying a path to dream bigger and achieve greater!   The Empowered Practice founders are world-class dentists and business owners. We are not offering advice, we are offering an insider look into the strategies that have allowed us to grow our own practices and practices just like yours.  

Dr. Peter Boulden has been practicing dentistry for over 15 years and has built a very successful, FFS, 3-location enterprise in Atlanta, GA where he was raised his entire life. He is also the owner of a practice in north GA which he acquired but does not do clinical dentistry there. It has seen tremendous growth by using the systems and marketing practices created from his flagship practices in Atlanta - even though it's an insurance driven practice. Dr. Boulden is passionate about both clinical dentistry & the business of dentistry; creating systems and processes, developing marketing programs that WORK, and building an office culture that focuses on the patient’s dental experience.  He loves talking about goal setting & work/life balance and sharing these tips and strategies with other dentists. He co-hosts the Bulletproof Dental Practice podcast with Dr. Craig Spodak, together they discuss these topics along with many others pertaining to working within the dental industry. He is married with 3 young kids.   www.AtlantaDentalSpa.com

Dr. Racich, a 1982 graduate from University of British Columbia, has a general dental practice emphasizing comprehensive restorative dentistry, prosthodontics and TMD/ orofacial pain. Dr. Racich is a member of many professional organizations (current AES Past President) and has lectured nationally and internationally on subjects relating to patient comfort, function and appearance. He is a Fellow of the Academy of General Dentistry and the American College of Dentists as well as a Diplomate of the American Board of Orofacial Pain and the International Congress of Oral Implantologists. Dr. Racich has published in peer-reviewed scientific journals such as the Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry and the International Journal of Periodontics and Restorative Dentistry and has authored the books: The Basic Rules of Oral Rehabilitation (2010), The Basic Rules of Occlusion (2012), The Basic Rules of Facially Generated Treatment Planning (2013), and The Basic Rules of Being a Dental Patient (2016). Currently he mentors the didactic/clinical FOCUS Dental Education Continuum (study clubs, proprietary programs, coaching, 2nd opinions only) in Western Canada.   www.DrRacich.ca

Dr. Kingsberg graduated from Nova Southeastern University in sunny South Florida in 2015 and has been practicing dentistry in Dallas, Texas since graduation. Dr. Kingsberg or Dr. Z is host of a new podcast called The Disillusioned Dentist. The disillusioned dentist podcast is designed for new grads, current dental students and pre-dental students with the focus of getting young grads out of student debt and into practice ownership as soon as possible! Dr. Z is a new father and is currently opening up a scratch start practice with his wife (who is also a dentist) next month.