The Art of Dentistry - Teamwork, Technology, and Precision

Summary:

Forming a successful dentist/technician team is a dream for many providers. In-house lab integration provides the optimal opportunity to collaborate and work together effectively but is full of challenges and compromise. The in-house lab faces many operaional challenges and limitations, but also many opportunities to achieve quality and consistency As a team, this requires experience, compromise, patience, effective communication, calibration, and an optimal workflow. Three years ago, Paulo Battistella and Matt Nejad made this transition. This lecture will review their experience, as well as the equipment, technology, and processes utilized to achieve consistent and predictable quality results.

Learning Objectives:

Biomimetic Restorative dentistry and biomimetic ceramic restorations
Effective treatment communication with dental technicians
Dentist and technician benefits of an in-house team
Equipment, technology, and techniques to achieve consistent and predictable results.

Speakers

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Dr. Matt Nejad

Dr. Matt Nejad is a skilled and experienced biomimetic restorative dentist based in Beverly Hills, California. He received his DDS degree from the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry at the University of Southern California in 2010, where he received advanced training in biomimetic and esthetic dentistry. In addition to practicing dentistry, Dr. Nejad is also a Fellow and Scientific Advisor of the Academy of Biomimetic Dentistry and provides education, training, and mentorship through the Nejad Institute. He is highly respected in the dental industry as a top opinion leader and is a member of the American Dental Association’s Standards Committee on Dental Products. His areas of expertise include adhesion, polymerization stress, residual stress, biomechanics, occlusion, and esthetics.

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Paulo Battistella

Paulo Battistella, M.D.T. is a dental technician who was born and raised in Brazil. He is a specialist in Laminated Porcelain and Ceramic Veneers and provides assistance and training to technicians and dentists around the world. He graduated from the Methodist Institute of Higher Education as a Technologist in Maxillofacial Prosthesis in 1993. He then graduated as a Master Dental Technician and Ceramist from the Paulo Kano Institute in 2004, a highly selective program only available to the top technicians. By 2008, Paulo had developed a strong reputation as an expert Master Ceramist. His passion for furthering his training and expertise next led him to Osaka, Japan where he worked on developing his skills in textures, shapes, and surfaces for his ceramic restorations under the training of the world-renowned technician and author, Mr. Shigeo Kataoka. Mr. Kataoka is known by ceramists worldwide for his developments and contributions to mimicking natural teeth with ceramic restorations. Paulo then began to deepen his own studies of the natural tooth, eventually authoring the “Keep It Simple Concept: Porcelain Book” in 2016 in which he explains the optimal process to recreate the layers and structure of natural teeth with ceramics. This was the first time that anyone explained the technique of mimicking the natural tooth layers (Enamel, Dentin, DEJ) with ceramics in their natural thicknesses and optical properties. In Zurich, Switzerland in 2017, Paulo was elected by founder Mr. Willi Geller to the elite and exclusive group of top technicians in the world known as the “Oral Design Group”. This group has an extremely rich and prestigious history over the last 42 years, with only 120 professionals meeting the criteria and expertise to be invited to join. Paulo joined the team at Helm Nejad Stanley Dentistry in Beverly Hills in May 2019.