Dentistry Uncensored with Howard Farran

Jason Büyüközer has been the Technical Specialist at M.A.R.S. Bio-Med for the past 5 years. He has dedicated his career to becoming a North American Expert on Amalgam Separators. Jason, along with M.A.R.S. Bio-Med have been all over North America training Water Treatment Plant Inspectors, Service Companies, Governments, Militaries and Dental Practices on amalgam separator maintenance, usage of evacuation line cleaner and the safe handling and disposal of mercury waste.   www.marsbiomed.com

Dr. Ghertasi is a researcher, lecturer, and executive at Tabriz University of Medical Sciences. He obtained his Doctor of Dental Surgery degree with honors in 2007 from Tabriz University of Medical Sciences. He has been involved with research in many areas of dentistry. Dr. Ghertasi is executive editor of Journal of Dental Research, Dental Clinics, Dental Prospects, and also the Journal of Periodontology & Implant Dentistry, the official publication of Iranian Association of Periodontology. Since 2014, he has been the supervisor of the Academic Publications Office of the Department of Vice Chancellor for Research & Technology at Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, where he oversees the activities of the university in scholarly publication. He also maintains a private dental practice with focus on implants and cosmetic dentistry in Tabriz, NW Iran.   www.tabrizdental.ir

Evan #Believes in entrepreneurs. At 19, he built then sold a biotech software company. At 22, he was a VC helping raise $500k to $15mil. He now runs EvanCarmichael.com, a popular website for entrepreneurs. He breathes and bleeds entrepreneurship. He’s obsessed. Aiming to help 1 billion entrepreneurs. Change the world. He had set 2 world records, uses a stand-up desk, rides a Vespa, raises funds for Kiva, wears 5-toe shoes and created Entrepreneur trading cards. He speaks globally but Toronto (#EntCity) is home. He loves being married, his son, salsa dancing, DJing, League of Legends, and the Toronto Blue Jays. He’s the author of Your One Word, the powerful secret to building a life and business that matter.   www.EvanCarmichael.com

Dentist and entrepreneur Dr. Roshan Parikh is the Founder and President of Chicagoland Smile Group. His vision is to build a best-in-class dental support organization in the Chicago area, offering dentists and dental specialists the opportunity to focus on the clinical aspects of dentistry, providing exceptional care for every patient. In 2008, Dr. Ro bought his first practice in the south suburbs of Chicago, with three employees in 650 square feet, and he has since developed Chicagoland Smile Group into a growing network of 12 multi-specialty dental practices, all dedicated to advancing dental healthcare in the greater Chicago area.   www.ChicagolandSmileGroup.com

Vicki Munday, RDH, BS graduated from Shoreline C.C. Dental Hygiene Program in 1992 and from O’Hehir University in 2015.  She has been a member of ADHA/WDHA all of her professional life.  Vicki was co-recipient of the Most Inspirational Award as voted on by her classmates at Shoreline.  Vicki was president of WDHA (Washington State Dental Hygienist’s Assoc.) in 2000, served as a delegate to ADHA for many years and was elected to serve on both the Ethic and Finance Committees for ADHA. She has had 5 articles published in RDH, and Op-Ed in Access and digitally in DPR.  Vicki has a passion for making a difference.  She is the founder of Smiles for Veterans, which has provided nearly $75,000.00 in care over the last 5 years. She is the regional coordinator for the Oral Cancer Foundation.  Vicki was one of the 2014 Sunstar/RDH Distinguished Hygienist Award winners.  She also received the 2015 ADHA/Colgate Community Service Award and the Young Caring Clinician Award.  She recently joined the team at Fidalab to provide education, marketing and sales from a dental hygiene point of view.  Prior to her position at Fidalab Vicki was in sales with OralID and PDT.   www.smilesforveterans.com www.fidalabus.com www.oralcancerfoundation.org

Dr. Kyle Fagala is the owner and orthodontist at Saddle Creek Orthodontics, with two locations in Germantown and Collierville, Tennessee. Dr. Fagala graduated from The University of Tennessee in May of 2013 with a certificate in orthodontics and a master's degree in Dental Science for his thesis on three-dimensional imaging of the airway. Dr. Fagala is the course director and lecturer of Development of the Occlusion, a class for 1st year dental students at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. He is also co-founder of the digital marketing agency Neon Canvas, host of the web series The Digital Orthodontist, and Key Opinion Leader for 3M Oral Care and Komet Burs. He loves music, specifically the drums, and spends more time than he should on social media. Dr. Fagala, his wife Anna, and their three children Charlie, Libby, and George live in Germantown and attend Highland Church of Christ.   www.saddlecreekortho.com www.neoncanvas.com

Isha graduated from Otago University Dental School in 2009. She moved to  the coolest little capital city Wellington where they get winds up to 100 miles an hour. After working and living in Wellington for seven years she learnt the love of good music, food, and great dentistry.   She also got an MBA from the Victoria University in 2014. This was a lens into the weird world outside of dentistry. She now lives in the sunniest place on earth - Hawkes Bay. She practices at a corporate chain Lumino the Dentists Dental Clinic. She is also under Jedi training with her favorite dentist and mentor Dr. Gary Winter and is learning implant placement and restoration.   www.lumino.co.nz

Teresa Duncan received her Master of Science degree in Health Care Management from Marymount University and has worked in healthcare for over 20 years.  Her company Odyssey Management offers online courses and training materials for insurance coordinators and managers. She’s worked at every position in the dental office that didn’t require a license – from taking out the trash to answering the phones on the front line to managing the whole operation.   You can find her giving insurance and management courses at meetings like CDA, Yankee and Rocky Mountain. She’s plugged in with office managers and insurance coordinators across the country who depend on her for regular updates on PPOs and claim management.   She’s been named one of the Top 25 Women in Dentistry by Dental Products Report (in 2015) and is in that big issue of Dentistry Today under Leaders in Dental Consulting.  She just put out a great book for teams who have to deal with insurance – which is almost all of my peeps – called “Moving Your Patients To Yes: Easy Insurance Conversations.”   www.OdysseyMGMT.com

Craig Cody has been a certified public accountant for the past 17 years and is also a certified tax coach, business owner and former New York City police officer.   Craig belongs to a select group of tax practioners throughout the United States who undergo extensive training and continued education on various tax planning techniques and strategies to become, as well as remain certified.   With this organization, Craig has co-authored the Amazon bestselling book Secrets of a Tax-Free Life and recently wrote 10 Biggest Tax Mistakes that Cost Business Owners Thousands.   www.CraigCodyAndCompany.com

By his 35th birthday Mike Michalowicz had founded and sold two multi-million dollar companies. Confident that he had the formula to success, he became an angel investor…and proceeded to lose his entire fortune.   Then he started all over again, driven to find better ways to grow healthy, strong companies. Among other innovative strategies, Mike created the “Profit First Formula”, a way for businesses to ensure profitability from their very next deposit forward.   Mike is now running his third million dollar venture, is a former small business columnist for The Wall Street Journal; is the former MSNBC business make-over expert; is a popular keynote speaker on innovative entrepreneurial topics; and is the author of Profit First, Surge, The Pumpkin Plan and The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur, which BusinessWeek deemed “the entrepreneur’s cult classic.”   www.MikeMichalowicz.com www.ProfitFirstProfessionals.com