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The Founding Circle

Five practitioners. One alliance.

The founding members of MDLA, convened in 2025 by clinical leaders in Chicago and Dallas.

How the Circle Was Assembled

The founding circle was not assembled to be representative. It was assembled to be credible. Each founder was chosen for a reason the others would recognize without it being explained — clinical leadership, community uplift, the willingness to be the first to say yes.

None of them needed MDLA. Every one of them said yes anyway.

i. Portrait of Dr. Saqib H. Mohajir, DMD
Chairman

Dr. Saqib H. Mohajir, DMD

Pinewood Dental · Lemont, IL · General dentistry & implants

Founder of Pinewood Dental and co-founder, in 2010, of the Chicago Muslim Dental Society — the regional precursor that helped shape MDLA. DMD, Case Western Reserve. Mastership, American Dental Implant Association. The kind of dentist other dentists call when they have a hard case — not because he is louder than the field, but because he has been at the chair longer, more consistently, with fewer shortcuts.

“We owed this to each other. We just hadn’t built it yet.”

ii. Portrait of Dr. Saba M. Khan, DDS, MSD
Founding Member

Dr. Saba M. Khan, DDS, MSD

Epic Periodontics & Implant Center · Mount Prospect, IL · Periodontics

Founder of Epic Periodontics & Implant Center and a Diplomate of the American Board of Periodontology & Dental Implants. Clinical Assistant Professor at UIC College of Dentistry, and an elected Village Trustee in Morton Grove. The second opinion Chicago-area GPs want before a complex referral goes out.

“I want junior women dentists to see that the work is the point.”

iii. Portrait of Samad Syed
Founding Member · Operations

Samad Syed

mConsent · McKinney, TX · Operations & platform

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.

“The alliance gets built. I am here to make sure it stays built.”

iv. Portrait of Dr. Anas Athar, DDS
Founding Member · Treasury

Dr. Anas Athar, DDS

Plus Orthodontics · Dallas–Fort Worth, TX · Orthodontics & OMR

Founder and CEO of Plus Orthodontics, and 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. Reads CBCTs the way other people read newspapers.

“Members teach members. That has to mean something.”

v. Portrait of Dr. Ibraiz Quamar, DDS
Founding Member · Secretary

Dr. Ibraiz Quamar, DDS

LifeSmiles Dental Care · Richardson, TX · General dentistry

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 of the ADA, the TDA, and the Greater Richardson Dental Society.

Members navigating practice growth and ownership get a peer who has already built it.

The Standard

This is the standard.

Every founder, every member, holds it. Clinical integrity. Willingness to give back. Public contribution. Community uplift. Growth mindset. Peer referral. The criteria are not a checklist — they are a description of the kind of dentist the alliance is built around.

If This Resonates

The founding circle is being seated through 2026. Once seated, the role does not reopen.

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