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Overview
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Education
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Colter Knight

Colter Knight

Charlottesville,VA

Summary

Vast experience in all phases of crown & bridge fabrication, Exocad design, milling, esthetics, patient interaction and lab management. I work well with staff and clinicians. I'm from a dental family, my father having been in private practice as well as my brother who currently practices in Charlottesville.

Overview

38
38
years of professional experience

Work History

Crown & Bridge Technician

Crowns By Colter
07.1991 - Current
  • Owner operator of Crowns By Colter dental lab. A quality oriented boutique lab serving clients in central VA.
  • Managed technicians as chief ceramist in a demanding, quality oriented environment.
  • Trained and mentored several technicians who now either own their own labs and or work in private clinics for high quality esthetic practices.
  • Proficient with a number of traditional ceramic systems from the 1980's up through emerging technology to present cad-cam systems.

Cheif Cermist

Scordas, Kenny & Huffman, Now Huffman & Kreger
01.1989 - 02.1991
  • Prepared all fazes of crown & bridge for an esthetically demanding group practice.
  • Worked with Vita porcelain layered on precious metals, routinely completing full mouth reconstructions, fount 6, singles, gold casting and finishing.
  • Work directly with patients in custom shading.

Porcelain Finisher

Sounders Dental Lab
07.1986 - 02.1989
  • Ceramic finishing, waxing, metal finishing in full service commercial lab.

Metal Finisher

Chemodent Dental Lab
06.1982 - 07.1984
  • Primarily finished metal copings and frameworks as an apprintice for Chemodent Alloy Company and Dental Lab.

Education

Associate of Applied Science - Dental Laboratory

J. Sargeant Reynolds Community Collage, Richmond VA.
05.1986

Skills

  • QB Office
  • Ceramist
  • Waxing, casting finishing
  • Goldsmith
  • Implants Systems
  • Milled Implant abutments
  • Zirconium Crowns
  • Exocad
  • Emax
  • Custom shadeing

Accomplishments


  • Master Workshop Bad Sackingen Germany
  • Branemark Implant System
  • Vita In-Ceram
  • Oral Design Foil Veneers
  • Kersten Dental Seminars
  • Vident Spinell
  • Vident Alpha Advanced Course
  • The Academy of Dental Therapeutics And Stomatology
  • HIDS Aesthetic Framework
  • 3-D CAD, Amann Girrbach Ceramill System

Timeline

Crown & Bridge Technician - Crowns By Colter
07.1991 - Current
Cheif Cermist - Scordas, Kenny & Huffman, Now Huffman & Kreger
01.1989 - 02.1991
Porcelain Finisher - Sounders Dental Lab
07.1986 - 02.1989
Metal Finisher - Chemodent Dental Lab
06.1982 - 07.1984
J. Sargeant Reynolds Community Collage - Associate of Applied Science, Dental Laboratory
Colter Knight