In 1990, after ten years of intense work in the teaching, administrative and private practice fields, Dr Bahri moved to Jacksonville, Florida. In the same year he opened his first Jacksonville practice with two dental chairs. He studied dental management and applied it in his practice.
Dr. Bahri was born in Lebanon where he received his dental degree from the Saint Joseph Jesuit Dental School in 1977. He then spent three years at the University of Paris, France, specializing in Dental Prosthodontics. In 1980 he returned to Lebanon where he opened his first dental practice and started teaching dentistry. In 1984, the Lebanese University created a new dental school that he was appointed to found, literally from scratch, as a first director.
Eager to know how other industries manage their resources to satisfy their customers, he started searching outside dentistry, in the mainstream where many management experts are continuously trying to improve the way things are done. He studied most management systems available to the public and tried them in his practice; systems like Total Quality Management, Six Sigma and Lean Management—to mention the most important ones.
In 1996, Dr. Bahri read "Lean Thinking” by James Womack and Daniel Jones, and started implementing Lean Management principles in his dental office. He is the first dentist known to utilize Lean Management techniques to continuously improve the delivery of quality dental care. Dr Bahri has been called “The Leanest Dentist on the Planet.” This implementation has benefited patients, employees, dental laboratories, suppliers, etc. In 2006, Bahri Dental Group provided the same amount of dental treatments as 2005, but needed 40 percent less resources, thanks to the application of “Lean Dental Management.”
In March of 2007, Dr Bahri was invited to present his work as a keynote speaker at the “Shingo Prize for Excellence in Manufacturing” where he was recognized as the “World's First Lean Dentist”. In March of 2009, Shingo Prize for Excellence in Manufacturing” where he was recognized as the “World's First Lean Dentist”. He lectures nationally and internationally to share his experience on implementing lean management in the dental practice.
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