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Dr. Mark Costes is a full time practicing dentist who was able to build six successful dental practices in his first seven years in the profession. He is the founder of the Dental Success Institute as well as the Horizon Schools of Dental Assisting.

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Welcome to another episode of The Dentalpreneur Podcast. On today’s show we are talking about an incredibly unfortunate, but common occurrence in the dental practice - embezzlement.

Joining us to share his wisdom and experience in this area is David Harris, CEO and founder of Prosperident-The Dental Fraud Experts. As the world’s leading expert on dental office embezzlement, David is also a Certified Fraud Examiner and a licensed Private Investigator. After David left his job as an investigator for a bank, he was asked by a friend that had a dental practice to investigate a possible situation of fraud. David soon discovered there was in fact a case of embezzlement occurring at his friend’s office. In a strange twist of fate, David later discovered the same person that committed the fraud working in yet another dentist’s office. From that experience David determined that there was a huge demand for specialist that investigated fraud specifically in dental practices. As disturbing as it might sound, some experts estimate that fraud occurs in as much as 70% of dental practices. Published numbers indicate that the likelihood of a dental practice falling victim to embezzlement in more than 50%.

Click to read more about David Harris - Are Criminals Running Your Practice?