Special Travel EditionQ2 2019 inside this edition... TRAVEL & LEISURE 04 William Burris’ Chinese Adventure BY WILLIAM BURRIS 20 Berkeley Burris’ Chinese Adventure BY BERKELEY BURRIS Special Travel Edition 38 BUSINESS PRACTICE A Quest for a 10 Pound Bonefish TRAVEL & LEISURE BY DR. LARRY SCARBOROUGH & DEVELOPMENT 41 61 84 Traveling to the Greek Islands Pro Travel Tips The Future Of An Orthodontist: BY DR. DANIELA LOEBL BY PROORTHO STAFF Closing The Loop On Virtual Treatments 45 64 BY NICK DUNCAN Russia in The Dead of Winter! Traveling to Europe 86 BY DR. BEN & BRIDGET BURRIS BY DR. BEN & BRIDGET BURRIS I Complained Loudly About the 49 70 AAO and This Happened Traveling to Peru Traveling to Spain BY DR. COURTNEY DUNN BY DR. DAVID WALKER BY DR. DAVID MAJERONI MARKETING/ 51 75 SOCIAL MEDIA Krakow: A Polish Jewel Croatia: Jewel of the Adriatic 89 BY DR. ANDREA FONT RYTZNER BY DR. 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Dr. Aly Kanani Dr. John McManaman PUBLISHER - Amy Bradshaw ADVERTISE WITH US! CHECK US OUT ONLINE GRAPHIC DESIGNER - Megan Clark [email protected] WWW.THEPROORTHO.COM Q2 • 2019 | TheProOrtho.com 1 CONTRIBUTORS DR. DAVID WALKER DR. COURTNEY DUNN Dr. David BERKELEY BURRIS Dr. Courtney Walker completed undergraduate, Berkeley is 9 Dunn graduated from the University dental and years old, her favorite orthodontic activities to do are of Michigan Dental and Orthodontic degrees at art and traveling. UNC-Chapel Hill. When she grows programs in 2001 and 2004. She He practices in up she wants to his hometown of be a famous artist received the Milo Hellman award Morehead City, in Paris. She has always wanted to travel NC as a partner in a group practice. He around the world, and also wants to pass for her research and has presented at many local and national meetings. She is married to his college sweetheart, down the tradition to her children. Berkeley Leeanne, an attorney with UNC School has been doing art since she was just three! is a diplomate of the American Board of Orthodontics, holds leadership positions of Medicine. They have one daughter, Her favorite place in the whole world is Madeline, age 2. Paris, her favorite part about Paris are the in the Arizona Dental Association and macaroons. Berkeley hopes her creative is past president of the Arizona State DR. LARRY SCARBOROUGH mind will someday lead to greatness. Orthodontic Association. Dr. Dunn is in private practice with her husband, Matt, in Phoenix, AZ. She spends most of her free Lover of people. WILLIAM BURRIS time being a proud swim mom. Experienced conservationist. William Burris Photography is an 11 year-old DR. DANIELA LOEBL enthusiast. boy that lives in Wannabe Windermere FL. Dr. Daniela Loebl is Philanthropist. William is in the a second-year Believer in the fifth grade and has orthodontic resident power of a smile. a sister that is in at the University Dr. Scarborough the fourth grade. of Colorado. She attended the VCU School of Dentistry for William likes to received her Bachelor both his dental training and orthodontic travel, fish, and go to his family's farm. The of Science degree residency. Dr. Scarborough and his family reason he likes to travel is because he likes at the University of live and practice in Richmond, Va. He is to explore new areas. The reason he likes to Michigan in 2012 a dedicated husband and father and in his fish is because he likes to see all the different and completed her formal dental training at spare time he enjoys spending time with his kinds of fish he brings in. The reason he the University of Maryland School of Dentistry wife, Emily, and their two kids, Jackson and likes to go to his family’s farm is because in 2016. She is originally from Miami, Florida Sophia. his family‘s farm is his favorite place that and enjoys going to the beach, traveling to new he’s ever been to. Williams favorite food is countries with her husband Steven, hiking, DR. PAYAM lasagna. When William grows up he wants and skiing. to be an orthodontist like his dad because ZAMANI orthodontists have a lot of free time and DR. DAVID MAJERONI Dr. Zamani grew make a lot of money. up in Palos Verdes, CA, earned a BS in Dr. David biology from UC Irvine, Majeroni has a studied in Madrid, private practice Spain and also worked in Alamo CA as an elementary and founder of school teacher before entering dentistry. He the non-profit "It obtained his DDS from USC in 2012 and his takes a Village" orthodontics certificate and MDS from the University of Pittsburgh in 2015. Dr. Zamani where he provides lives and works in Los Angeles, loves to travel orthodontic treatment to children with a with his new wife, Natalie, and is an avid USC missing or deceased parent. Trojans football and Real Madrid sports fan. 2 It’s just BUSINESS DR. KEITH DR. ANDREA NICK DUNCAN DRESSLER FONT RYTZNER Nick Duncan Dr. Keith holds degrees in Dr. Andrea Font Dressler is an accounting and Rytzner grew up in avid entrepreneur finance. After Palma de Mallorca, who has over 30 starting his career Spain and graduated years’ experience as a CPA in Boston, dental school in as a practicing he returned to his Complutense orthodontist. In native Australia University in Madrid after an exchange 2000, Dr. Dressler co-founded OrthoBanc, to form The Invisible Orthodontist (TIO) year in Ludwig Maximillians University LLC a cloud-based automated accounts with his father Dr. Grant Duncan. Over the in Munich, Germany. She continued receivable platform, that is currently past 7 years, TIO has built an international her education at Case Western Reserve serving over 4,000 healthcare providers. Dr. network of more than 100 doctors and University, completing her Masters and a Dressler also co-founded Elite Physician worked with them to significantly increase 3-year Orthodontic Specialty Residency. Services, a national healthcare patient their Invisalign cases. Through his She lives and practices in San Antonio, finance company, which grew to over 200 leadership at TIO, Nick has developed a Texas. Currently a director in the Texas million in sales before it became the Citi diverse set of skills encompassing marketing, Association of Orthodontists and a Board- Health Card in 2003.