Optimizing Oracle query

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Published on 2010-03-21T11:55:39Z Indexed on 2010/03/21 12:01 UTC
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SELECT MAX(verification_id)
  FROM VERIFICATION_TABLE
 WHERE head = 687422
   AND mbr = 23102
   AND RTRIM(LTRIM(lname)) = '.iq bzw'
   AND  TO_CHAR(dob,'MM/DD/YYYY')= '08/10/2004'
   AND system_code = 'M';

This query is taking 153 seconds to run. there are millions of rows in VERIFICATION_TABLE.

I think query is taking long because of the functions in where clause. However, I need to do ltrim rtrim on the columns and also date has to be matched in MM/DD/YYYY format. How can I optimize this query?

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