Kevin Kaviani
Dentist · Houston, TXNPI 1629400882
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 73 payments — averaging $135.00 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- A-dec, Inc.$7K
- Patterson Companies, Inc.$873
- Dentsply Sirona Inc$817
- Align Technology, Inc.$170
- Straumann USA LLC$148
- Ultradent Products Inc$113
- plus $545 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1602%
- Food & beverage$2,12522%
- Education$1,11711%
- Gifts$6,45465%
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| A-dec, Inc. | 20 | $7,190 |
| Patterson Companies, Inc. | 3 | $873 |
| Dentsply Sirona Inc | 7 | $817 |
| Align Technology, Inc. | 10 | $170 |
| Straumann USA LLC | 5 | $148 |
| Ultradent Products Inc | 1 | $113 |
| 3M Company | 5 | $105 |
| Dental Imaging Technologies Corp. | 1 | $80 |
| Biohorizons Implant Systems Inc. | 3 | $72 |
| Orapharma, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 4 | $65 |
| Geistlich Pharma, North America, Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| VOCO America Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| National Dentex LLC | 2 | $32 |
| Philips North America LLC | 2 | $29 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $19 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $18 |
| Colgate Oral Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Dentsply Sirona Orthodontics Inc | 1 | $11 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- Opalescence$113
How this compares
$9,855 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 4,816 dentist providers in Texas.
Other dentist in Houston
- Xavier SaabHouston$1.5M
- Chun-Teh LeeHouston$329K
- Amy RidallHouston$141K
- Ai leHouston$50K
- Michael TranHouston$31K
- Ali SajadiHouston$29K
- Justin LaiHouston$16K
- Emeric BoudreauxHouston$16K
- Poria RafieiHouston$13K
- Simon YoungHouston$12K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.