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Drs. Mike DeLuke and Mark Levi : Dentistry Uncensored w/ Howard Farran #1727

Drs. Mike DeLuke and Mark Levi : Dentistry Uncensored w/ Howard Farran #1727

8/14/2026 11:29:00 AM   |   Comments: 0   |   Views: 87
In this two-guest episode, Howard Farran brings together two clinicians unafraid to challenge the status quo. Dr. Michael DeLuke is a board-certified orthodontist who graduated valedictorian from SUNY Stony Brook and served as Chief Resident at UConn before owning DeLuke Orthodontics for nearly two decades. He has since retired from private practice to teach and coach full-time, serving on faculty at Montefiore Einstein and a Florida pediatric dental residency, and founding DeLuke Orthodontic Coaching ("DOC") and The DOC Podcast. Dr. Mark Levi is a Sydney-based dentist who, after his own severe obstructive sleep apnea diagnosis in 1998, dedicated his career to airway-focused care — co-founding integrated medical/dental sleep clinics, publishing in the European Sleep Journal, and in 2021 transitioning to an exclusive pediatric airway, breathing, and sleep clinic treating children aged 3 to 12.

The conversation dives into early, airway-focused orthodontic and orthopedic treatment — why both guests believe it matters so much, and why the orthodontic establishment and academia have been so resistant to it. They explore what pediatric sleep-disordered breathing actually is and why it should be on every dentist's radar, what "evidence-based practice" really means, and the long-term physiological payoff of intervening in a generation of four-to-six-year-olds before problems compound. Dr. Levi shares his philosophy of engaging parents by talking symptoms rather than treatment protocols — the approach behind hundreds of five-star reviews and his plans to expand into the U.S. — while Dr. DeLuke also opens up about the business side of dentistry, including how he reached financial freedom at 46 after starting his practice at 30 with zero assets and a mountain of student debt.


Episode #1727 : Dentistry Uncensored with Howard Farran, Howard sits down with two outspoken voices in orthodontics and airway: Dr. Michael DeLuke — board-certified orthodontist, coach, and host of The DOC Podcast — and Dr. Mark Levi, an Australian pioneer in pediatric airway, breathing, and sleep.

From why the ortho establishment resists early airway-focused treatment, to treating a generation of 4–6-year-olds, to achieving financial freedom in dentistry — this conversation pulls no punches.

?? A must-listen on early intervention, pediatric sleep-disordered breathing, and the business of orthodontics.

#DentistryUncensored #Orthodontics #AirwayHealth #PediatricSleep #EarlyOrthoTreatment #DentalSleepMedicine


VIDEO - #1727 DUwHF - Mike & Mark


AUDIO - #1727 DUwHF - Mike & Mark
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