FRISCO, TEXAS — Dr. Kevin Baharvand DMD MS, co-founder of Elate Orthodontics, has been reappointed to the editorial board of Orthotown for the 2025 and 2026 publication cycles. Orthotown is the professional publication and online community of Farran Media, serving licensed orthodontists across the United States and internationally, and is one of the most-referenced practice management and clinical resources in the specialty.
Editorial board appointments at Orthotown are peer-selected and are typically renewed based on the quality and readership impact of a member’s contributions during the prior cycle. Dr. Baharvand’s reappointment for a second consecutive term reflects the reception of his previously published work on practice management, financing structures, satellite office operations, and virtual care.
Editorial & Clinical Credentials
AJO-DO Cover Clinician
ABO Diplomate (Renewed 2026)
Published in JCO, Dentaltown, Wave Magazine
Angel Aligner Ascend 2026 NYC Speaker
Every article I have written for Orthotown started as a problem I was actually trying to solve in Frisco. How do you open a satellite office in a fast-growing suburb without diluting quality? How do you finance treatment for the volume of young families moving into North Texas? How do you keep working parents engaged in their kids’ orthodontic care when their calendars are already full? The specialty needed practical answers to those questions. I had to find them anyway to run our practice. Writing them down for other orthodontists was a natural next step.
— Dr. Kevin Baharvand DMD MS, Editorial Board Member, Orthotown
The Published Work
Dr. Baharvand’s Orthotown contributions across the 2024-2026 cycles address three areas of orthodontic practice management that have been notably absent from the specialty’s mainstream editorial coverage:
2024 Feature
Is It Time for a Realignment?
Challenges the industry-standard 70/30 in-house financing structure that most orthodontic offices default to, arguing for a reversed model that improves practice cash flow, reduces bad-debt risk, and lowers the barrier for family patients paying out of pocket. The framework was developed and tested inside Elate’s three-office North Texas operation before publication.
2024 Feature
Satellite Offices: Insight From the Inside
A first-person operational case study on managing an orthodontic satellite office housed inside another dentist’s practice — a model Dr. Baharvand piloted in North Texas before opening Elate’s three permanent locations. Covers scheduling boundaries, team integration, expectation setting with the host practice, and patient continuity across offices.
Jan/Feb 2026 Feature
Growing by… Sustainable Growth Through Virtual Care
Practice management article on integrating virtual check-in visits into aligner treatment protocols. Documents the scheduling, technology, and clinical workflow adjustments Elate made to allow Frisco parents to keep their kids’ aligner treatment on-track without pulling them out of school for every routine progress check.
Published in Orthotown Magazine’s January/February 2026 issue.
Why Frisco Is on Every Page
One of the through-lines in Dr. Baharvand’s editorial writing is that each article draws its evidence from an active clinical setting in one of the fastest-growing residential corridors in the United States. Frisco, Texas, added more than 100,000 residents between 2010 and 2024. The Colony, Prosper, and Little Elm have followed similar trajectories along the FM 423 and Highway 380 corridors. That growth has generated a specific set of operational problems that most orthodontic textbooks were never written to answer, and that most established practices in slower-growing markets never had to solve.
The financing article is grounded in the reality that Frisco’s dominant patient base is dual-income families with school-age children, moving into new-build homes and often stretching to afford both the mortgage and the orthodontic bill. The satellite-office article is grounded in Elate’s real experience opening additional locations to shorten drive times as new neighborhoods like Phillips Creek Ranch, Hollyhock, and the Tribute peninsula filled in. The virtual care article is grounded in the specific scheduling reality of Frisco ISD parents whose kids’ school day, after-school activities, and shuttle logistics leave almost no window for a routine 15-minute progress check without a family disruption.
None of these are theoretical problems. Every one of them landed in Dr. Baharvand’s operations meetings before it landed in an Orthotown byline.
About Orthotown
Orthotown is the professional publication and online community for orthodontists, published by Farran Media. Founded to give practicing orthodontists a peer-to-peer forum outside the industry’s traditional academic journals, Orthotown publishes clinical case reports, practice management analysis, technology reviews, and long-form editorial content. Its editorial board is composed of practicing orthodontists selected for their willingness to contribute clinically and operationally relevant writing to a working-clinician audience. Members serve terms of one or more publication cycles, subject to peer review and readership response.
Additional 2026 Recognition
The Orthotown reappointment adds to what has been an unusually recognized twelve-month period for Dr. Baharvand and the Elate Orthodontics team. In 2026, Dr. Baharvand and the practice have also been recognized with:
D Magazine Best Dentist DFW 2026
American Board of Orthodontics Recertification Through 2036
Angel Aligner Ascend 2026 NYC Featured Speaker
Authority Magazine Feature
Shoutout DFW Feature
About Elate Orthodontics
Elate Orthodontics is a family-owned specialty orthodontic practice founded in 2019 by Dr. Kevin Baharvand DMD MS and Dr. Julia Kang DMD MS. The practice operates three locations across The Colony, West Frisco, and North Frisco / Hollyhock, serving patients across Frisco, The Colony, Little Elm, Prosper, Hollyhock, Windsong Ranch, Phillips Creek Ranch, and The Tribute. The practice has surpassed 1,000 five-star patient reviews and holds current recognition as the Living Magazine 2026 Best Orthodontist in Frisco & Plano, D Magazine Best Dentist DFW 2026, and Benchmark BusinessRate Top 3 Dentist Frisco 2026. For more information, visit elateorthodontics.com or call 972.538.4343.
Media inquiries: info@elateorthodontics.com
Experience the Practice Behind the Editorial Work
Free orthodontic consultations are available at all three Elate locations in Frisco and The Colony.