Cardiologist providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Chiropractor providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Dentist providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Dermatologist providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
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Physical Therapist providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Podiatrist providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
Psychiatrist providers include doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. They often maintain long-term relationships with you and advise and treat you on a range of health related issues.
To say that dentistry is in Megan Charron's blood wouldn’t be an understatement. Megan became the third generation of Charrons to enter the field when she received her denturist license in August 2015. Megan has been working full-time at Northwest Dental Services & Dental Implant Center in Tacoma and Lakewood, Washington, ever since.
Megan graduated in 2014 from Washington State University in Pullman, Washington, with a major in Human Development. Throughout her high school and college career, Megan worked at the family business, honing her skills and learning the family trade.
Megan enjoys continuing the family tradition of helping and serving the community. In her free time, Megan loves to spend time with her cat, Percy.
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Northwest Dental Services & Denture Implant Center
Kylie Simmons, DPD is a passionate Licensed Denturist at Northwest Dental Services & Dental Implant Center in Tacoma and Lakewood, Washington.
Kylie Simmons has been a licensed denturist since 2019, and has worked in dental for over 15 total years. In 2020, Kylie earned a Denturist Associate's degree at Bates Technical College in Tacoma, Washington. Prior to completing the college's Denturist Program, Kylie earned an Associate's Degree in 2013 in Dental Assisting from Carrington College in Portland, Oregon, where students learn about the anatomy of the human mouth and different types of dental procedures.
Kylie also trained to be Efda (Expanded Function DentalAssistant) certified.
Before attending Carrington College, Kylie studied Public Health at Portland State University, a public research university in Portland, Oregon. Kylie was also an active member of the school's Snowboarding Team. Go Viks!
Professional experience in the industry began at Willamette Dental Group in Portland, Oregon, working as a Dental Assistant and Dental Technician, and created appliances, dentures, partials, and flippers and learned the in-and-out of the anatomy of the oral cavity, including how the teeth are positioned to make a flawlessly functioning appliance.
Every mouth is different, so each case took time, persistence, and care.
In 2017 and 2018, Kylie worked as a Patient Care Advocate, Dental Assistant, and Denturist Extern at Willamette Dental Group. In 2021 Kylie worked as a Licensed Denturist at Apple Valley Dental & Braces in Yakima, Washington. Currently, Kylie is delighted to be working at Northwest Dental Services & Dental Implant Center.
Outside of work and providing patients with top-tier dental care, Kylie is passionate about animal welfare, arts and culture, disaster and humanitarian relief, education, environment, health, human rights, social services, and children.
In her spare time, Kylie enjoys hanging out with her two dogs, Bleu and Rusty, and snowboarding.
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Northwest Dental Services & Denture Implant Center
Vallan (Val) Charron, DPD, followed in his father’s footsteps and became a licensed denturist almost 25 years ago. He’s been part of the team at Northwest Dental Services & Dental Implant Center in Tacoma, Washington, ever since. Charron ran in the public “Initiative-607” with his father, Chet, to help create the profession he and his father love—making denturists legal dental providers in the state of Washington.
Charron started his dental career very early on, working in the onsite laboratory polishing dentures during his high school years. He later went to Washington State University in Seattle and graduated with a business major.
Charron married his college sweetheart, Mary, and they have three daughters.
Today, Charron continues the family tradition of being an active and responsible member of the community, both by volunteering and in helping people regain their smiles.
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Northwest Dental Services & Denture Implant Center
Farzad Khalili, LD, is one of the five skilled licensed denturists at Northwest Dental, which has offices in Bellingham, Burlington, Arlington, Everett, and Oak Harbor, Washington. He graduated from Bates Technical College in Tacoma, Washington, in 2009 and received his denturist license in 2010.
Khalili has been part of the Northwest Dental team since 2013 and was elected to the board of the Washington Denturist Association in 2017. He offers patients of all ages in northwest Washington his expertise in creating and maintaining their custom dentures — work he completes in Northwest Dental’s on-site lab.
Jennifer Ra, DDS, is one of three dentists who provide outstanding patient care at Northwest Dental, which has offices conveniently located in Bellingham, Burlington, Arlington, Everett, and Oak Harbor, Washington. Dr. Ra began her medical education at the University of Washington, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in cell and molecular biology in 2003. She also worked as a research scientist at the University of Washington Medical Center in the Department of Neurology from 2002 to 2005.
Dr. Ra continued her education at Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine. She graduated magna cum laude in 2009. In addition to her degree in dental medicine, Dr. Ra also holds certifications in the Hiossen dental implant system and Invisalign® clear aligners system.
Along with the team of dentists and denturists at Northwest Dental, Dr. Ra provides comprehensive dental services for patients of all ages living in the northwest Washington area.
Eric Hansen, LD, was destined to become a professional denturist like his father. He now owns Northwest Dental, with offices in Bellingham, Burlington, Arlington, Everett, and Oak Harbor, Washington. As a young boy, Hansen played with wax in his father’s dental lab and realized his interest in dentures. When he graduated from high school, he worked alongside his father, Ron, in the lab. They both attended Idaho State University and the Oregon Denturist College.
Together, Eric and Ron Hansen earned their degrees in 1988 and became licensed denturists in 1999. The father-son team opened a denture clinic in Deming, Washington, on the Nooksack Indian Reservation. At the time, denturism was not yet recognized as a profession by the state of Washington, so they made that their mission.
Eric Hansen and his father worked with other denturists around the state to successfully pass Initiative 607, which formally recognized and regulated the denturist profession. Eric was a board member for the state of Washington denturists and helped them implement the new denturist law. The father-son team went on to open Northwest Dental, complete with denture laboratories and full-time dentists on their staff in both Bellingham and Burlington, Washington.
After his father’s passing in 2010, Hansen became the sole owner and a denturist at all five Northwest Dental locations. Hansen and his staff of three skilled dentists, five denturists, and hygienists provide exceptional dental and denture services, including implants and family dentistry, to patients of all ages in northwest Washington.
Farzad Khalili, LD, is one of the five skilled licensed denturists at Northwest Dental, which has offices in Bellingham, Burlington, Arlington, Everett, and Oak Harbor, Washington. He graduated from Bates Technical College in Tacoma, Washington, in 2009 and received his denturist license in 2010.
Khalili has been part of the Northwest Dental team since 2013 and was elected to the board of the Washington Denturist Association in 2017. He offers patients of all ages in northwest Washington his expertise in creating and maintaining their custom dentures — work he completes in Northwest Dental’s on-site lab.
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