A private alliance.
Membership is by invitation, anchored in peer referral and a shared commitment to integrity, excellence, and contribution. We are not building a directory. We are seating an alliance.
Five clinical leaders convened MDLA in 2025 to build what our profession has never had: a platform of our own. The founding cohort is being seated through 2026.
Dr. Mohajir · Dr. Khan · S. Syed · Dr. Athar · Dr. Quamar
Individually, this generation of Muslim dentists is the most successful in our profession's history.
Collectively, we have never had a platform of our own. MDLA exists to change that — on our terms, with our values, on our timeline.
The MDLA Founding Statement · 2025Muslim dentists practicing in the United States
More Muslim dentists practice today than in any prior generation. None of us has had an alliance of our own.
“We owed this to each other. We just hadn’t built it yet.”Dr. Saqib H. Mohajir · Chairman
MDLA is built around three things that, together, distinguish it from anything that has come before for Muslim dentists in the United States.
Membership is by invitation, anchored in peer referral and a shared commitment to integrity, excellence, and contribution. We are not building a directory. We are seating an alliance.
Closed-door programming led entirely by member dentists — the conversations continuing education does not cover, taught by practitioners still in the chair.
Long-form storytelling, peer-reviewed practice frameworks, and the relationships that document what it means to lead this profession with our values intact.
Before you read their credentials, hear why five practitioners decided this had to exist.
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The founding circle was convened in 2025 by clinical leaders in Chicago and Dallas — the first two cities of an alliance being built across every major Muslim dental community in the United States. Each founder carries deep roots in regional community-building dating back to 2010.
Founder of Pinewood Dental in Lemont, IL. Co-founded the Chicago Muslim Dental Society in 2010 — the regional precursor that helped shape MDLA. DMD, Case Western Reserve. Mastership, American Dental Implant Association.
Members inherit a lineage of Muslim dental community-building dating back sixteen years.
Founder of Epic Periodontics & Implant Center. Diplomate of the American Board of Periodontology & Dental Implants. Clinical Assistant Professor at UIC College of Dentistry. Elected Village Trustee, Morton Grove, IL.
Members get periodontics counsel from a board-certified clinician who teaches it for a living.
Founder and CEO of mConsent. Since 2017 he has built it into the operations platform behind 5,000+ dental practices — 5.5 million patients and 11 million appointments processed. Author of The Art of Patient Re-engagement. He convened MDLA’s founding circle in 2025. Not a dentist, by design.
Members get an alliance that actually runs — the platform and the calendar are somebody’s full-time job.
Founder and CEO of Plus Orthodontics. The only dual-trained Orthodontist and Oral & Maxillofacial Radiologist practicing in the state of Texas. Orthodontist of the Year, 2016. Distinguished Teacher of the Year, 2007.
Members get specialty radiology and orthodontic case review from a clinician dual-trained to provide it.
Co-founder, with his brother Dr. Nauman Quamar, of LifeSmiles Dental Care — a multi-location group practice serving the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. BBA, University of Texas at Dallas. Member, ADA, TDA, and the Greater Richardson Dental Society.
Members navigating practice growth and ownership get a peer who has already built it.No promises in the abstract. Here is what the first year of MDLA membership actually contains — and, just as plainly, what it does not.
Member-led teaching from the founding circle and invited members. Spans clinical specialty, practice operations, and the conversations continuing education does not cover. All recorded for active members.
A standing peer group for members navigating consequential decisions — partnerships, acquisitions, transitions, leadership inflection points. Convened quarterly under Chatham House Rule.
Curated and current. Searchable by city, specialty, or practice model. Every name vetted; every record reconfirmed annually. The roster is small by design.
MDLA is built online first. We are not scheduling a conference in the founding year — the programming and the peer circle come first. If the cohort wants to convene in person, 2027 is the earliest we would do it.
Permanent recognition for members of the founding cohort. Once seated, the role does not reopen. The wall lives on the alliance, in the bylaws, and on the public site.
Pricing shared only with invited candidates. The founding cohort closes once seated.
We send a brief letter when there is something to say. Not often. Not promotional.
One short letter, only when there is something worth sending. Unsubscribe any time.
Thank you. We’ll be in touch when there is something to say.
The founding cohort closes once seated. The role will not be offered again.
Request a seat →Submissions are reviewed monthly by the membership committee. Decisions communicated within thirty days. membership@mdlalliance.org