Autonomy Takes Off with Florie V. Mancilla

About this episode

Florie Mancilla discusses her diverse career in dentistry and the challenges faced by clinicians in a complex healthcare system.

Florie Mancilla, RDH, is not your standard-issue hygienist. She’s a 24-year force who’s tested the full bandwidth of this profession: clinical care, teledentistry before it was cool, running mobile units, teaching the next generation, shaping corporate training ecosystems, and now redefining whole-health impact as an Oral Wellness Consultant. In this episode, we get into the actual lived reality of being a clinician in a system that doesn’t always know what to do with ambitious, multidimensio...

People in this episode

Host: Jonathan Bonanno

Guest: Florie V. Mancilla

Topics covered

• oral health
• teledentistry
• clinical care
• whole-health impact
• entrepreneurship
• education

Keywords

• hygienist
• teledentistry
• mobile units
• clinical care
• whole-health

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Oral Wellness Consultant

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