Meet Bahar Movahed, a musician, orthodontist and modern renaissance woman

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Bahar Movahed is a practicing orthodontist in Southern California. She's also a classically trained musician with a solo career, something she wasn't allowed to have in Iran, where women are prohibited from singing alone in public.

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