#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!

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

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.