2026 · Published
Dentists to Watch 2026
Early-career clinicians whose choices are already changing what their corner of the profession expects.
- Year
- 2026
- Honorees
- 3
- Selection
- Editorial · no fee
The 2026 list
Dr. Amara Okonjo
OrthodontistAtlanta, Georgia
For rebuilding orthodontic scheduling around adults, and accepting a worse business on paper to do it.
Dr. Hannah Brooks
General DentistBozeman, Montana
For a rural practice designed around patients who may not be able to return, and for training and licensing her own expanded-function assistants.
Dr. Grace Lin
Cosmetic DentistLos Angeles, California
For a six-week design phase before any preparation, and for showing prospective patients the cases that needed revision.
Methodology
Dentists to Watch recognizes clinicians in the first decade of practice whose work suggests a durable change in approach rather than an early success.
Honorees are selected editorially. No fee is charged and no placement is sold.
We look for decisions that were costly at the time they were made.
What we look for
- Structural rather than cosmetic innovation
- Evidence the approach survives contact with the schedule
- Willingness to publish or teach the method
