Index / Dr. Nosti
Credentials & press
Letters after a name mean nothing if nobody explains what they took to earn. This page lists what Dr. Nosti holds, what each one required, and where you can verify it without taking our word for it.
Why people come here
Education and training
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey — now the Rutgers School of Dental Medicine. He has spoken publicly about graduating with over $150,000 of student debt.
Lehigh Valley Hospital, Allentown, Pennsylvania. A hospital-based residency year after dental school, covering a breadth of cases that a new graduate does not ordinarily see.
No dental amalgam has been placed in the practice since 2004. He is SMART certified for safe amalgam removal and a member of the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology.
Continuing education has been the organizing principle of his career since graduation. He credits Dennis Tarnow and Gordon Christensen among the clinicians whose teaching changed how he practices.
Fellowships
Awarded for several hundred hours of approved continuing education accumulated over years, plus passing the Academy's comprehensive written examination. It is an earned credential rather than a membership, and a minority of general dentists hold it.
Awarded for demonstrated competence in combining esthetic and functional dentistry — the discipline of making teeth look right and work right at the same time. His published biography puts the number of dentists in the United States holding it at around forty.
The ICOI is the world's largest implant dentistry organization. Fellowship requires documented implant education and clinical experience assessed against the organization's criteria, rather than attendance alone.
Faculty and appointments
A national continuing-education organization he co-founded. He directs its curriculum and teaches within it.
One of the longest-running implant training programs in the United States, built around restoratively driven implant placement.
A dental school appointment, teaching students and residents.
Hands-on instruction in cosmetic and restorative dentistry for practicing dentists.
One of the most widely read dental publications in the United States. Board members review and shape its clinical content.
Clinical advisory roles with two manufacturers, in ceramics and in instrumentation respectively.
Recognition
This award is decided by peer vote: dentists in New Jersey nominating dentists in New Jersey. It is not a patient popularity contest and it cannot be applied for. Being named once is meaningful; being named every year since 2010 is a pattern.
Dentistry Today compiles an annual list of leaders in dental continuing education. Inclusion reflects an assessment by the publication of who is actually teaching at a national level, which is a different question from who has attended the most courses.
Published work
He sits on the publication's editorial advisory board and has written for it since 2010. The list below is his Dentaltown record; he has also published in the Journal of the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry, Dental Economics, Dentistry Today, Inside Dentistry and in American Dental Association journals and patient brochures.
| Article | Date | Subject |
|---|---|---|
| Rock the Drill: Five Steps Toward Mastery | March 2025 | Clinical skill development |
| Simplifying Vertical Dimension | January 2025 | Occlusion & full-mouth rehab |
| Success Through Systems | March 2022 | Clinical systems & protocols |
| Implant Improvement | June 2020 | Implant dentistry |
| Practice Profitability | June 2019 | Practice management |
| Old School Meets New School | May 2017 | Digital & analog technique |
| Debunking the Bleaching Myths | December 2015 | Teeth whitening |
| Treatment Planning for Implants in the Maxillary Edentulous Patient | April 2015 | Full-arch implant planning |
| Denture Troubleshooting | February 2015 | Removable prosthetics |
| Simplifying the Denture Process | December 2014 | Removable prosthetics |
| I (Hate) Love Dentures | March 2014 | Removable prosthetics |
| Porcelain Veneers: From Case Selection to Cementation | March 2013 | Cosmetic dentistry |
| Current Guide to All-ceramic Restorations | December 2012 | Ceramic materials |
| Thin Is In | March 2012 | Conservative veneer preparation |
| Removable Smile Design | November 2011 | Removable prosthetics & esthetics |
| Six Guidelines to Minimize Porcelain Fractures | March 2011 | Occlusion & materials |
| The Next Weapon in Cosmetic Case Protection | December 2010 | Occlusal protection |
| Recession-proof Cosmetics | April 2010 | Cosmetic practice |
Memberships
There is no aggregate star rating, no composite “patients treated” figure and no award that was bought. Where a number could not be verified from a published source it has been left out rather than estimated, and anything described as typical is described that way because outcomes vary.
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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.