Dental lifestyle publicationawards distinction in dental practice design in Colorado, Maryland, Michigan
PITTSTON, PA — March 14, 2019 — Annually, Incisal Edge, the leading lifestyle magazine for dental professionals, offers an opportunity for national recognition in outstanding office design. The magazine’s team canvasses doctors, architects, designers, and students for nominations across four categories, then turns it all over to the blue-ribbon panel of judges. This year’s competition ran from August 20 through November 28. Today its award-winning practices are spotlighted in the publication’s spring issue, as published by Benco Dental. Mastermind design tips, judges’ commentary, award-winning floor plans and breathtaking imagery is available at: http://www.incisaledgemagazine.com/mag/article/the-2019-incisal-edge-design-competition/
Award-winning dental practices for 2019 include:
Shown is the recipient of the award in the New Construction category, Urnise Dentistry, Glenwood Springs, Colorado. (Photo Michael Heffernon/Incisal Edge)
New Construction
Urnise Dentistry, Glenwood Springs, Colorado, owned by Dr. Karen Urnise
Specialty Practice
Colorado Maxillofacial & Oral Surgeons (CoMax), Colorado Springs, Colorado, owned by Rebecca Facy, DDS, MD
Repurposed Practice
Bunek Dental Studio, Ann Arbor, Michigan, owned by Dr. Sabiha Bunek
Design of the Future RiNo Dental, created by Alexis Wilson, Hagerstown, MarylandExisting dental practices receive a Herman Miller Ergonomic Starter Bundle valued at $2945.00, a professional photo session for their practice, and a framed display of their winning entry as featured in Incisal Edge. Design of the Future category winner receives a $2,000 monetary award. The competition’s juried panel from the dental and architectural worlds included: Tristan Hamilton, DDS, M. ARCH.; Joyce Bassett, DDS, FAACD, FAGD, and Phyllis Marshall-Rice, LEED AP, EDAC.Published by Benco Dental, Incisal Edge celebrates dentists’ achievements both inside the operatory and during their hard-earned downtime. Learn more at: http://www.incisaledgemagazine.com/
Shown is the recipient of the award in the Specialty Practice category, Colorado Maxillofacial & Oral Surgeons (CoMax), Colorado Springs, Colorado. (Photo Derek Johnson/Incisal Edge)
: Shown is the recipient of the award in the Repurposed Practice category, Bunek Dental Studio, Ann Arbor, Michigan. (Photo Marta Xochilt Perez/Incisal Edge)
About Incisal Edge
Knowledge. Success. Life. Those three words, printed on the cover of every issue, guide editorial content for the national premier dental lifestyle magazine—Incisal Edge. Published by Benco Dental since 1997, Incisal Edge celebrates dentists’ achievements both inside the operatory and during their hard-earned downtime. Known for its “40 Under 40—America’s Best Young Dentists,” which highlights the country’s brightest rising stars, the magazine’s content ranges from “The 32 Most Influential People in Dentistry” and news about the latest techniques, tools, and dental practice designs, to the best in travel, automobiles, and timepieces. Incisal Edge magazine’s print edition reaches 130,000 readers quarterly via a direct mail distribution package with Dentaltown magazine. Digitally, IncisalEdgeMagazine.com leads with dynamic visuals and follows with exclusive web content, an improved mobile experience, and a centralized nomination hub for the magazine’s signature awards: the aforementioned 40 Under 40, the Lucy Hobbs Project Awards for Exemplary Women in Dentistry and the Incisal Edge Design Competition for interior design, architecture and space planning within the dental profession. About Benco Dental Benco Dental, headquartered in Northeastern Pennsylvania, is the largest family-owned dental distributor in the United States, offering a full array of supplies, equipment and services to dentists across the nation. Founded in 1930 by Benjamin Cohen, the company has remained family-owned and focused on its unique mission to “deliver success, smile after smile.” Benco, which has been named one of Fortune Best Workplaces in Health Care and Biopharma for the past three years, one of the NAFE Top Companies for Executive Women for the second consecutive year, and Pennsylvania’s Best Places to Work® for 12 of the past 14 years, is proud to feature a highly skilled team of more than 400 professionally trained sales representatives and over 300 factory-trained service technicians. For more information, visit benco.com or call 1.800.GO.BENCO.
Larry Cohen graduated from Wilkes College with a B.S. in Accounting in 1957 and Columbia University Graduate School of Business, earning an M.S. in Management and Finance, 1958. He served in the U. S. Army Reserve from 1958 through 1964.
He is the second-generation owner of Benco Dental Company, which was founded by his father, Benjamin Cohen in 1930.
Joining Benco Dental in 1959 as manager of the Tooth Department, in 1960, Larry became an outside sales rep, a position he enjoyed full time until 1972. Beginning that year, Larry began reducing his outside sales role and increasing his managerial duties, later becoming the president of Benco Dental from 1965 – 1996.
Larry is the Founder of the American Dental Cooperative; Board, American Dental Trade Associate, plus Various ADTA committees. He sits on the Board of Wilkes University, Board of Visiting Nurses Association and the Board of Jewish Community Center.
