Inside Expert Series: Trends

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Learning Objectives:

• Review how new clinical and practice management technologies can take dental practices to the next level.
• Explore how CAD/CAM dentistry can positively impact dental practices.
• Describe the importance and impact of effective, high-level collaboration with the laboratory on complex and/or esthetic cases.

Author Qualifications:

Robert C. Margeas, DDS, is Board Certified by the American Board of Operative Dentistry. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Aesthetic Dentistry, a Fellow of the Academy of General Dentistry, American Society for Dental Aesthetics and International Team of Oral implantologists (ITI). He has written numerous articles on esthetic and implant dentistry, and lectures and presents hands-on courses nationally and internationally on those subjects. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of Inside Dentistry, on the Editorial Board of Compendium, and is a contributing editor to Oral Health in Canada. His memberships include OKU Honor Dental Society, American Academy of Esthetic Dentistry, and the American Academy of Restorative Dentistry. Dr. Margeas maintains a full-time private practice focusing on comprehensive restorative and implant dentistry in Des Moines, Iowa.

Varisha Parikh, DMD, is a lecturer at the UCLA School of Dentistry, Department of Advanced Prosthodontics and maintains a private practice in Los Angeles, California.

Matthew Nejad, DDS, maintains a private practice in Beverly Hills, California, and provides training through the Nejad Institute. He is an adjunct faculty member at the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California.

​Peter Pizzi, MDT, CDT, is the owner and manager of Pizzi Dental Studio Inc. and the Editor-in-Chief of Inside Dental Technology.