Mark Oborn MDTA LBIDST Dip Mgmt
As well as being a director of SBO Mark also runs a dental business BLOG...
Mark also runs marketing and creativity courses, please visit his website to download your FREE marketing and creativity pack.
Mark qualified as a technician in 1987, since then he has worked exclusively in the quality private sector. After qualifying he worked alongside one of London’s foremost Dental Surgeons and gained invaluable experience in communication of colour and morphology, achieving this by close cooperation between surgeon, technician and patient.
He joined Stocking Beer & Oborn in 1991 as a manager of the Ceramic department and in 1997 was offered a partnership. Since then his experience has widened further by contact with a wide variety of surgeons and styles, by also being a member of the Harley Technicians Study Club he has been able to apply a wide resource of technical skills to the everyday production case.
Mark is a UK Technical Consultant for the Vita range of ceramics and is a certified Sirona inLab trainer and Beta Tester. He has been responsible for running an education program for technicians on the Ducera product range including high fusing, low fusing and pressable ceramics and has had over 150 technicians attend his training and development days . He is also the Technical Consultant for Metalor Technologies UK and has undertaken
As implantology becomes more popular Mark is being asked to lecture at a number of Implant foundation (Frialit 2 Foundation courses 6 to date) and year courses (J Ucer Year Course) on the technical issues and problems associated with implants, with special regard to the aesthetic implications of restoring implants.
He has studied the theory of ceramics at length and has written articles (Dental Technologies July 2001 – The Reality of Vitality) on achieving the best from ceramics using knowledge gained whilst visiting furnace manufacturers (Dekema – Freilesing Jan 2001) and ceramic companies (Degussa, Ducera 1999 and 2001)Mark has recently become a Licentiate of the British Institute of Dental and Surgical Technologists and is a Registered Dental Techncian. He also has a particular interest in presenting and lecturing on any subject, but particularly on Aesthetic Dentistry.
To further his business skills Mark started a Masters Degree in Business Administration (MBA) in November of 2004 through the Open University, this has proved invaluable in the continuing success of SBO. As part of this qualification, to date, he has completed courses in:
The professional Certificate in Management - pass
The Professional Diploma in Managment - pass with merit
Corporate & competitve Strategy - pass
Marketing in a complex world - pass
Creativity, Innovation & Change