Melissa Pavey - Northwest Professionals

Melissa Pavey has been a leader in the dental industry for over 16 years. She has considerable experience in both the clinical and management aspects of the field.

After spending several years as a clinic director for a successful practice, she began consulting for a Washington based dental consulting firm. After many successful years, she opened her own dental consulting firm, Northwest Professionals. Once starting and running a successful consulting company she learned knowledge of proper practice management throughout the entire life cycle of the clinic utilizing both innovative and time-tested methods. She has a true gift for treatment plan presentation and her knowledge strategies have proven themselves effective in many cosmetic and restorative practices.

Over the past 9 years, she has developed comprehensive treatment plan presentation systems that have dramatically increased treatment acceptance while maintaining the highest ethical standards. She has had the rare opportunity to co-teach with Dr. Lynn Jones at the University of Washington School of Dentistry, Continuing Education Department on all aspects of case presentation focusing on large cosmetic cases as well as more recently completed her Masters degree in Business Administration while coaching a difficult practice transition of a Fellow-and Accredited member who recently retired. Dentistry has given her great satisfaction and her true joy comes from presenting options to patients while watching their life change in such a positive way. She prides herself on teaching and supporting the importance of complete treatment plan presentation and how done correctly can have a positive influence on a persons life.