Index / Dr. Nosti
About
A self-described
“CE junkie” who
ended up teaching it.
Dr. John Nosti graduated in 1998, spent the following years doing what he calls being a continuing-education junkie, and now writes and teaches the courses other dentists take. The practice in Mays Landing is where he does the work he lectures about.
Why people come here
- He teaches occlusion and full-mouth rehabilitation to other dentists
- Fellowships in three academies — FAGD, FACE and FICOI
- The complex cases other practices refer out
- A written, itemized plan before anything is scheduled
The dentist
He teaches occlusion
and full-mouth rehab
for a living.
Dr. John Nosti graduated from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey — now Rutgers School of Dental Medicine — in 1998, and completed a general practice residency at Lehigh Valley Hospital the following year. He describes himself as a continuing-education junkie, and the description has held up: the courses he once traveled to take are now courses he writes.
He is Clinical Director of Education for the Clinical Mastery Series, which he co-founded, faculty at the Misch Institute of Implantology, adjunct faculty at the Arizona School of Dentistry and Oral Health, and a clinical instructor with the Hornbrook Group. He authored the Ultimate Occlusion series and a live-patient program in which dentists watch him treat a full-mouth case from start to finish.
The practice in Mays Landing is where that work actually happens — full-mouth rehabilitation, TMJ and occlusion, implants and functional cosmetic dentistry, alongside the general and family dentistry a neighborhood practice is there for.
- 1998
- D.M.D., University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey — now Rutgers School of Dental Medicine
- 1999
- General Practice Residency, Lehigh Valley Hospital, Allentown, Pennsylvania
- Fellowships
- FAGD · FACE · FICOI — Academy of General Dentistry, Academy of Comprehensive Esthetics, International Congress of Oral Implantologists
- Teaching
- Clinical Director of Education, The Clinical Mastery Series — which he co-founded
- Faculty
- Misch Institute of Implantology · Arizona School of Dentistry and Oral Health · The Hornbrook Group
- Published
- Editorial advisory board and eighteen articles in Dentaltown; also JAACD, Dental Economics, Inside Dentistry and Dentistry Today
- Recognized
- “Top Dentist,” New Jersey Monthly, by peer vote since 2010; named a top educator by Dentistry Today
How it started
A hundred and fifty thousand
in debt, and a reading habit.
He has been open about leaving dental school with over $150,000 of debt and no obvious way to become the dentist he wanted to be. What he did have was an appetite for courses. He credits Dennis Tarnow and Gordon Christensen among the clinicians whose teaching changed how he practiced, and he kept going back for more.
That appetite became a habit, and the habit became a career. Continuing education stopped being something he attended and became something he wrote: the Ultimate Occlusion series, three progressive courses on functional dentistry, full-mouth rehabilitation and complex cases, plus a live-patient program where dentists watch him treat a case from start to finish.
He is Clinical Director of Education for the Clinical Mastery Series, which he co-founded, faculty at the Misch Institute of Implantology, adjunct faculty at the Arizona School of Dentistry and Oral Health, and a clinical instructor with the Hornbrook Group.
How he practices
Dentistry done right
the first time.
That line is the practice's own, and it is less of a slogan than a description of sequence. Doing it right the first time means the diagnosis comes before the treatment, the bite is measured before it is restored, and the finished result is designed and approved before anything irreversible happens.
It also means saying no. A patient who asks for veneers on a collapsed bite is asking for something that will fail, and being told so is more useful than being sold it. The consultation here includes the possibility that what you came in for is not what you need.
He has been mercury-free since 2004, is SMART certified for the safe removal of existing amalgam, and is a member of the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology.
Away from the office
Family, and the gym.
He lives in the area with his wife Jen and their two children, Isabella and Anthony — AJ. Outside dentistry he holds personal-training certifications through ACE, which is a reasonable indication of how he approaches most things: learn the mechanics properly, then do the work.
He travels to lecture several times a year, which is why the schedule has days set aside for teaching. Appointments are booked around it, and the office will always tell you in advance.
The practice
Advanced Cosmetic and General Dentistry.
Harding Highway, Mays Landing — a general and cosmetic practice where the complex cases are treated by the dentist who teaches them.
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Next step
Start with an examination and a straight answer.
A consultation includes an examination, the records the case needs and a written, itemized plan. If what you are asking for is not the right treatment, Dr. Nosti will say so and tell you what is.