Meet Dr. Turab Rai
Dentist, founder of Bright Smiles Community Outreach, and the leader behind Turabify.
Dr. Rai’s mother was a dentist when his father died. He was nine. The family had already crossed the world once, born in Pakistan, to Canada at four, then on to the United States, and watching her rebuild a career from nothing shaped everything about how he practices today.
He studied microbiology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, then earned his DMD from the Maurice H. Kornberg School of Dentistry at Temple University. He joined his mother, Dr. Lubna Taj, at Franklin Dental Care & Dentures and has spent the years since building it into more than a place that fixes teeth.
The belief underneath all of it is simple: oral health is a human right, not a privilege.
Most dentistry waits for disease and then treats it. Dr. Rai wanted the work to start earlier, with prevention, with education, with people understanding their own mouths well enough to teach their kids. That is why Franklin Dental is built around Medicaid and denture patients, and why so many people arrive here after years of being turned away or talked down to somewhere else.
He founded Bright Smiles Community Outreach Coalition, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that spreads preventive oral-health education through schools, community organizations, musicians, farms and more. He also leads Turabify, which mentors students and helps local businesses with systems, marketing and hiring, so both can build service and wealth in their communities.
Dr. Rai is a member of the American Dental Association, the Cincinnati Dental Association, and SCORE.
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Dr. Rai’s nonprofit brings preventive dental education to schools and communities across Ohio.
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Dr. Rai’s leadership company mentors students and helps local businesses with systems, marketing and hiring, so both can build service in their communities.
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