Westlake Dental Care

Our dentists

Two dentists, one practice

Westlake Dental Care is independently owned and there are two dentists in the building. Which one you see depends on what you came in for. The answer is usually obvious once you know what each of them spends their week doing.

If you are not sure, book anyway — the exam sorts it out, and the two of them share one chart.

The Westlake Dental Care team — Dr. Tarek Badawy, Dr. Rachel Kogan, and the Sterling team.
Dr. Tarek Badawy, cosmetic and implant dentist at Westlake Dental Care in Sterling, Virginia.

Cosmetic and implant dentistry

Dr. Tarek Badawy

Dr. Tarek opened Westlake Dental Care in June 2019 and trained in Egypt and the United States. He takes the cases that need a plan before they need a drill: implants, full-arch rebuilds, veneers and smile design.

See him for implants, cosmetic work, or a second opinion on a treatment plan you are not sure about.

  • Fellow, Academy of General Dentistry (FAGD)
  • Fellow, International Congress of Oral Implantologists (ICOI)
Read Dr. Tarek’s full bio →
Dr. Rachel Kogan, general and family dentist at Westlake Dental Care in Sterling, Virginia.

General and family dentistry

Dr. Rachel Kogan

Dr. Kogan looks after the everyday half of the practice: cleanings, exams and fillings. She runs the checks that keep a small problem from turning into a big one, and she sees guests of every age.

See her for a checkup, a cleaning, a filling, or anything that has started to ache.

  • Doctorate of Dental Medicine (DMD), University of Pennsylvania
  • General Practice Residency, Cleveland Clinic
Read Dr. Rachel’s full bio →

What the letters after the names actually mean

Dental credentials are mostly acronyms, and an acronym nobody explains is decoration. Here is what each of these is, and what it tells you about the practice.

Fellow, Academy of General Dentistry (FAGD)
An award for continuing education, not a title you keep by paying dues. It takes hundreds of hours of coursework and an exam.
Fellow, International Congress of Oral Implantologists (ICOI)
The implant credential. ICOI is the largest implant organisation in the world, and Fellowship recognises documented surgical and restorative experience.
Invisalign Gold provider
A volume tier. It means enough Invisalign cases have been treated here for the practice to have seen the awkward ones, not only the easy ones.
Seattle Study Club member
A study group where dentists present real cases to each other for criticism. It is where a complicated plan gets a second and third opinion before a patient hears it.
Alliance of Independent Dentists — board member
Westlake is independently owned, not part of a corporate group. This board works on keeping practices that way.

Book with either of them

One chart, one building, and a conversation before any treatment gets planned, so bring the questions you have been putting off.