#213- Breaking the Mould Kostas Karagiannopoulos
Since leaving Greece in the mid-90s to study dentistry in London, Kostas Karagiannopoulos has carved a name as one of the leading practitioners of injection-moulding composite bonding. He chats with Payman and Prav about the experimentation and ‘painful mistakes’ that helped him find his way and how a hedonistic year at university almost stopped his career before it started. Enjoy! In This Episode 04.14 - Injection moulding - indication and limitations 15.23 - Patient communication and technique development 22.23 - USPs and differentiation and techniques 44.09 - Backstory 49.01 - Advice to young dentists 55.25 - NHS 58.30 - Outside the clinic 01.01.40 - Blackbox thinking 01.15.41 - Referrals and organic patients 01.22.58 - The front edge 01.26.43 - Last days and legacy 01.29.47 - Fantasy dinner party About Kostas Karagiannopoulos Kostas Karagiannopoulos is a specialist prosthodontist and honorary consultant at King’s College London, where he has taught since 2008. He is a proponent pioneer of the injection-moulding composite technique, which he teaches through his Prosthoworks training academy.