The Women in DSO Clinical Leadership Award Winner 2024: Tiffany Howerton

Tiffany Howerton serves on the Hygiene Leadership team as a Senior Hygiene Mentorof Operations where she partners with Vice Presidents of Operation, Regional Directorsand Regional Hygiene Mentors of Operation to support doctors, hygienists, teammembers, and profitability of practices while feeding her passion to grow others.Tiffany’s values are centered on growing and giving back to others. By the time sheentered high school, she was certain about the direction her career would take. Aftergraduating with her Bachelor of Science degree in Dental Hygiene from the University ofOklahoma in 2006, she joined a practice that was part of a mid-size DSO that lateraffiliated with Heartland Dental in 2013.Being awarded the 2024 Women in DSO Clinical Operations Leadership award, servingon Heartland Dental’s Employee Led Communities committee, OraPharma’s nationalsales meeting leadership panel, Heartland Dental's Winter Conference Women inDentistry panel, the Women in DSO exChange Circle panel, and being featured as aprofessional hygiene leader at Bloom RDH, a coaching and empowerment groupfocusing on the growth of newly graduated hygienists, are included among Tiffany’saccomplishments. Additionally, she was named Reader’s Choice Best Dental Hygienistfrom 2011-2015.Tiffany believes the Dental Hygiene profession provides opportunities to showcaseskillsets while empowering others. It also affords the opportunity to expand one’s scopeoutside of the clinical arena, effecting patient care at an even higher level. She looksforward to what the future brings to the Dental Hygiene profession as the science,technology, and business of dentistry continue to evolve.Tiffany lives in Enid, Oklahoma with her husband, Jared and two children, Huxley-8 andLennon-5.@thedsohygienist"Like" and "Subscribe"https://thedsohygienist.buzzsprout.comFollow me on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/comm/mynetwork/discovery-see-all?usecase=PEOPLE_FOLLOWS&followMember=christine-diehl-rdhmusic credit:  "Seize the Day" by Andrey Rossi