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Why Dental Professionals Pursue OBI Training
You’ll hear it in our videos. You’ll feel it in their voices. These are the reasons real clinicians choose OBI, and how everything changed once they did.
Michael Edwards, DMD
Dr. Michael Edwards is a leader in bioesthetic dentistry, currently serving as President of the OBI Foundation for Bioesthetic Dentistry and previously as its Vice-President. With over 30 years of experience, he is dedicated to advancing Bioesthetic principles through education, innovation, and global collaboration. Dr. Edwards focuses on expanding OBI’s international reach, developing faculty, and promoting biologically-centered dentistry that empowers both patients and practitioners.
David MacLean, DDS
Dr. David MacLean is a leader in Bioesthetic Dentistry and a long-standing member of the OBI Foundation. He joined the OBI faculty in 2005, helped establish OBI Canada in 2006, and later served as President of the OBI Foundation. Since 2016, he has been Director of Education, playing a key role in advancing Bioesthetic principles globally.
Through his teaching and clinical practice, Dr. MacLean is dedicated to delivering comprehensive, biologically-centered care while exploring the integration of digital technologies in Bioesthetics.
Katherine Slater Greve, DDS
A prosthodontist with nearly four decades of experience, she has dedicated the past ten years exclusively to Bioesthetic Dentistry. She serves as Co-Director of OBI Foundation Latin America, a Board Member of the OBI Foundation USA, and a Faculty Member, actively advancing Bioesthetic principles through education and mentorship. Her clinical practice is fully focused on Bioesthetic Dentistry, where she provides comprehensive care and contributes to the growth of biologically-centered dentistry across Latin America.
Bernhard Egger MDT, BDT, EDT
A Master Dental Technician and Bioesthetic Dental Technician, he has been a dedicated faculty member of the OBI Foundation since 1999, contributing to OBI Europe, USA, and Canada. Through international lectures, education, and interdisciplinary collaboration, he advances Bioesthetic principles in dental technology, supporting the integration of biologically-centered restorations worldwide.
Edgardo Saralegui Gomez, DDS
Dr. Saralegui serves as Director of Education for OBI Mexico and is a dedicated leader in Bioesthetic Dentistry. A fully trained Bioesthetic clinician through all four levels of the OBI Foundation program, he has been instrumental in advancing Bioesthetic principles in Latin America. Through his teaching and clinical work, he focuses on achieving occlusal stability and promoting biologically-centered care within the OBI community.
Kenji Sashida, DDS
A dental surgeon and orthodontist, he is an active member of the OBI Foundation community and fully trained in Bioesthetic Dentistry through advanced OBI Mexico programs.
As a faculty member and educator, he is dedicated to teaching and advancing Bioesthetic principles, integrating orthodontics with biologically-centered care to support comprehensive patient outcomes.
Maria Longo, DMD
Dr. Maria Longo is a dedicated practitioner of Bioesthetic Dentistry, a graduate of the OBI Foundation training program, and a faculty member in Spain. Through her clinical work and teaching, she focuses on comprehensive, biologically-centered care, contributing to the advancement of Bioesthetic principles within the dental community.
Real Experiences from OBI Alumni
At OBI, we believe education should inspire growth, confidence, and better outcomes for every patient. Hear directly from dentists who have experienced this transformation through our courses.
You do not know what you do not see. This educational experience will allow you to diagnose and treat patients to optimum health.
OBI has completely changed the way I look at a mouth and the way I will practice for the rest of my career. Thank you all very much.
My staff and I take extreme pride in being a part of the OBI family. I’ve practiced 28 years and have just now found the people who make dentistry challenging and exciting again. I see this training as being the culmination of my dental education.
Daryl Ruby, DDS - Fresno, California
OBI has changed my life, my attitude, my understanding of what I’m doing in the mouth. Thank God for the genius of Dr. Lee and your commitment to teaching it. I am so thankful that I had the opportunity to learn the philosophy an implement it in my practice.
I have always loved dentistry and the wonderful services and care we provide for our patients. My excitement for dentistry has increased tremendously since my involvement with OBI. Bioesthetic dentistry is the ultimate in patient care because it addresses the stomatognathic system as a whole.
I had been out of dental school for only four years and was losing interest in the "single tooth" type of dentistry. I wanted more from dentistry and was searching for a program that could give me the answers I was looking for. I attended an OBI annual conference to find out more and was hooked from then.
The handful of dentists that have been given this gift of knowledge, conceived by Dr. Lee and advanced by Dr. Wold and his support staff, are indeed a privileged few. The knowledge is powerful in its simplicity and truthfulness and enables dentists to restore debilitated mouths to a state of nature.
Every once in awhile you run into one of those things that just really makes sense – it fits with what you are seeing. OBI is one of those things! The principles of OBI opened my eyes to the way God designed our chewing system. OBI gave me the tools and confidence to be able to diagnose early problems.
What does OBI mean to me. On so many different levels OBI means a great deal. From a technical perspective I have never found anything that prepared me to diagnose and treat failing chewing systems with ANY degree of complexity than Bioesthetics™. The three principles of Bioesthetics™ are my dental bible. I always know where I want to go and that makes finding my way a much simpler process. Another wonderful aspect of OBI is being part of the teaching faculty. I truly enjoy helping others on their journey. On a more spiritual level, if you will, being a part of the OBI family has been a great opportunity to meet and become close friends with some wonderful, wonderful people. Bioesthetics demands such dedication to learn and really practice that when you are side by side with other Bioesthetic dentists there is a real sense of fraternity and loyalty. It’s the best!
Was introduced to OBI and Bioesthetic dentistry by two doctors in Bozeman, MT. I was Dr. Todd’s Level III patient and I learned more about joints, muscles, occlusion, causes of tooth wear, and biology as a patient than I have ever known or understood or just dismissed as "that’s the way it is.
As OBI continues and the Alumni assume responsibility, we can be confident that the concept of Bioesthetic Dentistry will create a paradigm shift in dentistry. Bob Lee would be proud of this and you must know he is so grateful to you all, just as I am.
The training I have received has brought every aspect of my day-to-day practice of dentistry into a logical cohesive focus. For the first time, my dental school education, which emphasized how to repair tooth pathology one tooth at a time, has been extended to understanding, diagnosing, repairing and most importantly preventing pathology of the entire dentognathic system. OBI could be called a "Finishing school" for dentists.
Stephen Phillips, DMD - Medford, Oregon
The process of learning Bioesthetics® is seeing things that you never saw before. Going from unconsciously incompetent to consciously incompetent to consciously competent. Having to do and present a case makes all the difference in the world. Looking forward to more insight in our future with Bioesthetics®.
David Ross, DMD – Florida
I am a restorative dentist and owner of a small private practice in Seattle. I have been able to sustain a viable non-insurance dependent, high touch service, patient centered practice thanks to my involvement with the Schuster Center, Mastery Company and OBI. My OBI journey started in 2009. At that time I had been in private practice for 10 years and as a Schuster Center Alumni I had worked on clarifying my purpose and vision for my practice and life. I wanted to create a practice that was truly patient centered, a place where faster, busier was not better but where relationships mattered. I was creating the structures in my practice to support the high-level communication and organization needed to offer complete diagnosis and comprehensive treatment. I had completed numerous technical curriculums Spears, Dawson and Kois. Although I intellectually understood the importance of condylar stabilization and anterior guidance something was still missing. I had so many patients in night guards, just holding them because I did not feel confident with the methods I learned. Stabilizing the joint with a deprogrammer or bi-manually manipulating the mandible, I kept looking at my mounted models and kept questioning it. I needed something that would bridge the gap between what I understood to what I could make real with my hands. I shared some of my concerns with a colleague and that is when I was first introduced to OBI. OBI was that missing link. The difference that I experienced with OBI was their hands-on, principles-based approach to learning. Each student was required to select, diagnosis, treatment plan and complete treatments through the course in order to present your final case for graduation. I graduated level IV in 2012 and the return on my investment with OBI is priceless. I had that “aha” moment where everything clicked. "I understand this and I can do this". I can help my patients. I can offer my patients something more than just a night guard. Comfort, function, beauty, confidence, health, balance and harmony. OBI is a very special because of the people involved with the organization. When you get like-minded individuals together magic happens and our patients are well served. Authenticity and transparency is key to learning. I have been involved with the organization since graduation and continue to serve because I love OBI and its people.