Resource Library

Gold Dust Dental Laboratory is committed to the success of every one of our clients and strives to be a resource for every practice. Our Resource Library is intended to be a dynamic work in progress, providing access to relevant and helpful content to our clients. We welcome friends of Gold Dust as well, to experience the partnership that we embark on with every client. Visit often, as this section will be updated routinely! Enjoy.

Gold Advantage ENewsletter Series

Gold Dust is pleased to publish a quarterly enewsletter that includes the latest in dental materials, clinical features, case studies, tips and articles for dentists seeking clinical excellence. We are an all porcelain dental lab that wants to foster dental industry progress.

Gold Dust Dental Clinical Information and Technique Guides

An astute and educated laboratory must stay on top of the latest in Clinical information and applications to be a ongoing resource to their clients. See helpful information on prep design, materials, cements and the like.

Anterior Cementation Technique Guide
Photography Cheat Sheet
Stick Bite Technique Guide
Color Correction Coping Technique Guide
Diagnostic Wax Kit Tech Guide
Cementation Checklist
Full Mouth Records Checklist
Preparation Checklist
Wax Up Checklist
Cement Choices

Gold Dust Dental Practice Management Tools

More than an esthetic dental lab, Gold Dust lets you peruse the most requested forms and tools for general restorative practice tools including consents, forms and protocols.

Health History Form
Patient Testimonial Form
Patient Approval Form
Financial Arrangement Form
Photography Model Release
Smile Design Informed Consent
Smile Design Post Op Provisional
Smile Design Post Op Cementation
Laser Post Op
Posterior Temporary Restorative Post Op
Porcelain Restoration Care Sheet
Porcelain Warranty Certificate
Oral Hygiene
360 Evaluation
Registration and Health History
Team Huddle Checklists

Important Disclaimer:

The following information is provided for Gold Dust clients as a resource. It is the individual’s responsibility to ensure that all state laws and practice acts are conformed to in utilizing this information. It is the clinician’s responsibility to ensure the recommendations given to their patients meet their personal standard of care. Clinical protocols change constantly. Therefore the information on this site or on the linked websites should not be considered current, complete or exhaustive, nor should you rely on such information to recommend a course of treatment. Reliance on any information provided on this site or any linked websites is solely at your own risk.

Gold Dust Clinical Mastery Webinar Series

View archived versions of today’s leading educators as they present live, online presentations on a variety of the hottest topic in dentistry today! Hours of free education from our all ceramic lab, viewed directly from the comfort of your office or home!

Coding for Maximum Insurance Reimbursement: 2011 ADA CDT Changes

Presenter: Roz Fulmer and Steve Anderson

Ensure your receiving maximum benefits by viewing this information packed webinar presented by Gold Dust Dental Lab. Discover 2011 coding changes you must know to code your patients' claims correctly and receive proper reimbursement.

You will learn:

8 new codes and what they mean to your patient and the practice
4 essential rules to live by for coding compliance
6 guidelines for timely, maximum reimbursement
Audit proof your practice, with 10 secrets for maintaining patient records that keep you out of trouble when the auditor comes calling.
Myths of insurance billing and what you can get away with!

Get The Shot: Portrait Photography for Dentists

Presenter: Dr. Jason Olitsky
Learn practical tips on capturing the images that drive more dentistry into your practice! From intraoral to portrait photography, learn the fundamentals on creating images that ROCK! Dr. Jason Olitsky, the Smile Stylist, has mastered the addition of dental photography and utilizing it in documentation, lab communication, promotion, branding, publishing and more.

Lab Communication: The Missing Link in Achieving Optimal Aesthetic Success

Presenter: Dr. David Hornbrook
Join Dr. Hornbrook as he discusses the key essentials in establishing ideal communication between the clinician and the ceramist. The lack of communication is responsible for many of the aesthetic and functional failures we routinely see in clinical dentistry. Through years of working with some of the finest ceramists and laboratories in the country, Dr. Hornbrook has created a very easy to use, and practical approach to addressing the many variables that exist in treatment as complex as full mouth rehabilitation to attempting to match a single central.

All-Ceramic Options for Posterior Teeth

Presenter: Dr. David Hornbrook
Join Dr. Hornbrook as he discusses options for providing our patients' conservative, aesthetic posterior restorations. Included in this presentation will be conservative inlays/onlays, full coverage and inlay bridges, bondable and cementable full coverage crowns, and cementation recommendations for these different materials. Objectives include:

Understanding the advantages of the new materials available
Discovering how new materials are changing the way we treatment plan our patients
Learning why there is not “one” material that does everything and why it is important to understand our options for long term prognosis
Learning when and with what materials we can “cement” in place and why the thickness of the restoration may influence our choice of cements

The Biggest Insurance Coding Mistakes Practices Make

Presenters: Steve Anderson and Roz Fulmer
Gold Dust Dental Lab is pleased to bring you this webinar with Steve Anderson and Roz Fulmer, with practical and specific suggestions regarding coding errors and specific strategies to get benefits for what you do, but aren’t currently billing. Be sure to bring a notebook, this 1 hour presentation is chock full of codes, descriptions and tips to stop leaving insurance dollars on the table!

Making it Easy for Patients to Say Yes!

Presenters: Dr. Paul Homoly
LEARN how to make it immediately obvious during the new patient interview that they are in the right dental office. Enjoy this introduction to mastering case presentation and patient relationships.

DISCOVER your patient's level of readiness for complete care
DEVELOP and enable your team to have a huge, positive impact on your patients
SUCCESSFULLY PRESENT fees, financial arrangements and patient financing
MANAGE patients who say "no" and keep them in your practice
And much more!

Staging Comprehensive Treatment

Presenters: Dr. John Nosti
Dr. John Nosti presents a dynamic 2 hour webinar on staging comprehensive treatment to meet your patient’s budgetary limitations while providing functional and stable dentistry. Learn the art of phasing large treatment and contributing to the long term health of your patients.

Full Mouth Round Table Discussion

Presenters: Dr. David Hornbrook, Dr. John Nosti, Dr. Mike Smith, and Dr. Jason Olitsky
Enjoy the unique opportunity to review full mouth rehabilitation cases from diagnostics through treatment progression with four Functionally Aesthetic dentists from around the country. Absorb details that will contribute to your personal clinical success in this 2 hour presentation.

Cementation: Step by Step to Adhesive Bonding

Presenter: Dr. David Hornbrook
Enjoy this 2 hour presentation with Dr. Hornbrook identifying the specific step-by-step technique of adhesive bonding that ensures great results every time, with no sensitivity and an efficient procedure that is predictable and ideal for many clinical situations. Also, find the associated PowerPoint that you can download in addition for your future reference, all courtesy of Gold Dust Dental Laboratory!

Click Here To Download PowerPoint Slideshow: Anterior_Cementation_Technique_Guide.ppt

Minimal and No Prep Veneers

Presenter: Dr. David Hornbrook
Enjoy this 2 hour recorded presentation on tips, techniques and application of minimal and no-prep veneers utilizing Emprethins. You will learn by seeing several actual cases, Clinical Indications, Contraindications, Advantages and how to get great clinical results. In addition to the video portion, there is a corresponding audio that accompanies the video.

Case Treatment Planning

Presenter: Dr. David Hornbrook
Join Dr. David Hornbrook, pioneer in live patient restorative education, in the discussion of five cases from diagnosis, to treatment plan, material selection and final restorative result. This 2 hour recorded presentation, will provide you terrific insights with real time questions from the audience.