From A Dinosaur Practice to Digital Success with Dr. Mohiuddin Ifaz
Shared Practices | Your Dental Roadmap through Practice Ownership
Dr. George Hariri | Shared Practices Network
4.9 • 559 Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Richard Low sits down with Dr. Mohiuddin Ifaz and Lori Williams to discuss an incredible practice transformation journey. Dr. Ifaz shares how he acquired and modernized a 40-year-old dental practice with no digital systems, turning it into a thriving, fully digital, fee-for-service practice. Lori, one of Shared Practices' top coaches, details the critical role of coaching, team management, and strategy in scaling a practice successfully.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Shared Practices podcast. |
| 0:06.2 | We get to have a story today. |
| 0:08.9 | And this is, I don't think we've had a story quite like this on the podcast yet. |
| 0:12.5 | Lots of stories that are in the realm of that practice that is just from 40 years ago. |
| 0:19.3 | So I'm very excited today to welcome Lori Williams, one of our |
| 0:23.9 | top coaches at shared practices. Lori, how are you doing? I'm doing well, and thank you so much |
| 0:29.0 | for having me. This is going to be fun. We're going to be talking with your client here today. |
| 0:34.0 | That's one of our doctors that's been working with you. And tell us a little bit about |
| 0:38.4 | Dr. E. Faz and then introduce him to the practice. Dr. E. Faz, he's amazing. I've been working with him |
| 0:43.9 | for about a year and a half now. And he, I'll let him share a little bit about it, but it's |
| 0:49.8 | super unique situation walking into a practice, like you said, way back 40 years ago, right? |
| 0:56.0 | No computers, no, we scheduled. He scheduled from a book. He, they built, I mean, it was just |
| 1:02.6 | incredible. So I'm going to let him share a little bit about that. So take it away, Dr. Refaz. |
| 1:07.4 | Awesome. Thank you so much, Richard and Lori, for giving me the opportunity to kind of speak here and |
| 1:12.6 | I appreciate it. So I'll just share a little bit before what I took over and then go from there. |
| 1:18.5 | Tell us real quick. Where are you in the country? When do you graduate from dental school? Just timelines. |
| 1:22.6 | I graduated from University of Florida in 2019. And now I'm in north of Tampa, kind of 30 minutes away, |
| 1:32.2 | in Spring Hill, Florida. That's where pretty much the practice is. Sweet. Tell us about this |
| 1:37.2 | practice. How did you find it? And what's the story? All right. Awesome. So the first thing, |
| 1:41.9 | you know, like I tried the traditional things like what you guys had recommended back in the shared practices days back in 2021, you know, mailers. So I did a lot of mailers. I didn't really lead to any opportunities like that. But this specific practice, it was more through a banker. I was looking for the last six months before this practice that I was |
| 2:02.0 | looking around the area. There was a banker that just knew that I was looking for a practice |
| 2:06.8 | and he kind of brought in the deal. It was more off market. It did have like a business broker |
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