Teeth & Tales by Dr Shaadi Manouchehri

Unconventional with Rachel Jackson

Rachel’s last 17 years have been a journey of discovery, learning, upskilling and refining, with one anchor at the centre of every thought process – the patient. Created by Rachel Jackson, Superior Smiles proudly opened its doors in August 2018.

 

In this episode, Rachel shares her journey to becoming a practice principal with a background in dental nursing. We discuss some of the challenges unique to her as a practice principal who is not a dentist and how she tackled some truly difficult situations encountered throughout her career.

 

Artificial Intelligence with Dr Jana Denzel

Dr Jana Denzel is an award-winning dentist and honorary global ambassador for Slow Dentistry. These awards and positions recognise his outstanding contribution to improving the quality of dentistry in practice, in education, on the lecture circuit and with the general public.

Jana lectures internationally on the subject of dental psychology and dental anxiety. He harnesses his expertise in psychology alongside his dental clinical practice. He has been most recently named Young Best Dentist - London and Clinical Director of Manchester Imaging Limited.

 

In this episode, Jana shares his experience of studying dentistry abroad in Valencia where he first became interested in artificial intelligence after noticing the differences in opinions from different and even same individuals regarding radiographic diagnoses. This led to him pursuing his interest and his recent achievement of being appointed the Clinical Director of Manchester Imaging Limited.

Balancing act with Dr Zainab Al-Mukhtar

Dr Zainab is a dental surgeon who qualified from Guy’s Kings & St Thomas’ Dental Institute with Distinction in 2010. With an early interest in the art of cosmetic dentistry, Dr Zainab made the most of her early years as a dentist completing her post graduate training in aesthetic dentistry for which she holds a certificate.

 

A keen artist, Dr Zainab also developed a passion for facial aesthetic medicine and has undertaken extensive training in advanced facial contouring with dermal fillers and wrinkle-relaxing injections with Botox ™️. She is widely experienced in performing non-surgical face lifts, cheek and chin augmentation and jawline defining, as well as non-surgical rhinoplasty. Dr Zainab was selected to be a facial aesthetics trainer and demonstrator for Oris Medical at the Royal College of General Practitioners where she teaches fellow doctors and dentists how to deliver safe and effective treatment.

 

In this episode, Dr Zainab shares how she pursued her passion in both aesthetic dentistry and facial aesthetics and how she currently divides her time between the two. Dr Zainab also shares her experience of managing her private dental and aesthetics practice with her husband whilst looking after their young family. We discuss the current challenges faced by recent dental graduates and our advice on how to tackle these.

Studying Dentistry abroad with Neggi Khalessi

Neggi, now a third year dental student, moved to Stockholm four years ago in order to pursue her dental dreams after getting rejected from British dental schools TWICE. Having grown up in England, she had to learn Swedish in order to get into dental school in Sweden and hasn’t looked back since. 

Through her instagram account @theforeignflossophy she documents her new life in Stockholm as well as her dental school journey. Neggi seeks to inspire others to embrace a non- traditional path into the career and truly believes rejection shouldn’t be seen as a disadvantage but rather an opportunity for something better.

 

In this episode Neggi shares her experience of moving to Sweden to study dentistry after realising her passion for the subject during her undergraduate degree studying biomedicine at King’s College London and after rejection from UK dental schools.

Building an empire with Dr Kunal Patel

Kunal is the owner of Surrey’s rapidly expanding LoveTeeth clinic and national Wedding Smiles brand and pioneer of the Mini Smile Makeover technique. As well as being an opinion leader for prominent dental brands, Kunal is a prolific speaker and trainer on subjects ranging from short-term orthodontics to business building and marketing. He is also a regular contributor to dental publications.

 

In this episode Kunal shares his experience of studying dentistry abroad and how this helped him excel in his career in the UK from very early on. We also discuss how to create a brand and establish a successful business.

Making first impressions count with Dr Rupert Monkhouse

Rupert is a general dentist working in Reading with a particular interest in removable prosthodontics. This led to him forming the #ImpressionClub which has developed into a weekly Instagram live session, podcast and newsletter. Rupert is also a passionate member of the International Team for Implantology and is a member of the Young ITI committee.

 

In this episode we talk about Rupert’s passion for removable prosthodontics and how his background in photography helped him build a unique social media account and a loyal worldwide following. We talk about how Rupert manages to create consistent valuable content whilst managing clinical work and his advice to those considering starting a social media page.

E35- Dealing with failure- Ali & Zoh

Ali & Zoh run a YouTube channel called Two Dentists where they create educational dental videos. Ali is currently a final year dental student at the University of Newcastle and Zoh is a foundation dentist working in London. They have known each other since primary school and have managed to combine their passion for technology with dentistry to create dental videos.

 

In this episode we talk about our definition of failure, our personal experiences with failure, what we have learnt from our experiences and advice to our younger selves.

Designing a dental practice with Kimia Benam

Kimia Benam is a Chartered Architect who formed her practice in 2019, mainly specialising in healthcare and health-sciences projects. She translates her passion for design by transforming sterile clinical spaces into comforting and aesthetically pleasing environments by integrating Biophilic elements into her designs to create warm and welcoming spaces for her clients and their patients.

 

In this episode, Kimia and I discuss the process of planning and delivering a dental clinic. We discuss the planning process and special consideration in view of requirements and restrictions of healthcare projects and how they compare to residential and commercial properties.

The Singing Dentist with Dr Milad Shadrooh

Dr Milad Shadrooh qualified in 2004 from Barts and The London and he runs a successful dental practice in Basingstoke, Hampshire where his main interest is cosmetic dentistry. 

Outside of dentistry, music is his main passion, and he has combined this with dentistry to hit the headlines as the "Singing Dentist", with his educational and very entertaining dental parody songs. He has gained a huge following on social media with his online videos gaining over 250 million views combined. He has also transitioned onto mainstream TV, establishing himself as the go-to media clinician with appearances on This Morning, Good Morning Britain, Lorraine, BBC News, Sky News and countless radio stations. He has written for and been written about in numerous publications and has been voted the Number 1 Most Influential person in Dentistry 3 times in the last 4 years. He is undoubtedly one of the most recognisable dentists in the world and he has managed to bridge the gap between the dentist and the general public, and as a result, patients travel from all over the world to see him in his clinic.

 

In this episode Dr Milad and I talk about how The Singing Dentist was created and how he balances social media development with practicing clinical dentistry. We talk about FOMO and comparison to others. Dr Milad also shares his advice to young dentists starting out on their journey.

Surviving Dental Core Training with Dr Christina Diamanti

Dr Christina Diamanti is a cosmetic dentist & facial aesthetics practitioner in North West London. She graduated from Newcastle University and then moved to London to complete her Dental Foundation Training and Dental Core Training in Restorative, Oral Medicine, Oral Surgery and Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery. She currently works part time as a dental associate and part time as a Speciality Doctor in Oral Surgery for the LNWH NHS Trust.

 

Although Christina and I had similar backgrounds in dental core training at Guy’s Hospital and Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, our experiences were very different and in this episode we talk about all the positive aspects as well as the challenges. We talk about everything we did wrong from calling the consultant on the first day to fainting in theatres and advice we would give to those considering dental core training.