Our team
We have already made most of the mistakes you are trying to avoid.
Two practicing orthodontists and an operations lead. Whoever you end up talking to has done the thing they are advising you on.
Founder
Dr. Kevin Baharvand, DMD
Kevin has started seven orthodontic startups of his own, in different settings, and stayed in every part of them — the site, the build, the numbers, the systems — before handing anything off. He has also consulted for practices around the country, so he has watched the same decisions play out in a lot of different markets.
He holds a master’s degree in organizational leadership and still sees patients at Elate Orthodontics, so the advice comes from someone currently running a practice rather than someone who used to. He grew up in a medical family where money was not something people discussed. The rest of the time goes to his wife, three children and two dogs.
Orthodontist
Dr. Julia Kang, DMD
Julia has helped start and establish a number of orthodontic practices from the ground up, and she came in with a business background rather than picking one up along the way.
She is also a working mother of three, and much of her work with owners is about building a practice that does well without swallowing the life around it. She is direct with other working mothers in dentistry about what that actually takes.
Operations
Mathew Rosales
Mathew has worked in both corporate and private multispecialty dentistry across Dallas–Fort Worth. His side of it is operational: the systems a practice actually runs on, how insurance gets handled, and what it takes to keep a workplace people want to stay in.
A practice that is busy and still not working usually has something wrong somewhere in there.
You would be talking to us, not to an account manager.
There is no team behind us to hand you off to, which is the reason we only take one or two doctors at a time. If that sounds like what you have been looking for, tell us what is going on and we will tell you honestly whether we can help.