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Very Dental Extra: Building a Big Case Practice with Dr. John Nosti

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Show Notes


Today’s Very Dental Extra is brought to you ad free by our friends at Ivoclar!

Dr. John Nosti is a practices and teaches comprehensive restorative dentistry to dentists all over the country. In his first guest appearance on the Very Dental Podcast John and Alan have a wide ranging conversation about John’s origin story, restorative dentistry and specifically how important a quality curing light is!

  • Pork Roll or Taylor Ham?
  • The John Nosti origin story! (he started in orofacial pain!)
  •  Teaching with the Hornbrook Group—>Clinical Mastery Series
  • How did he build a practice in “big case dentistry?”
  • The three best photos in an introductory exam
  • The new patient interview 
  • Big cases come out of hygiene…how do you change the conversation?
  • “Your teeth look different to me today.”
  • Communication and meeting the patient where they are
  • The best closing line!
  • Why should you avoid the eBay/Amazon curing light?
  • 5 second cure vs. 5 second timer
  • Who is curing the composite? Dentist or assistant? 
  • Rock the Drill!

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