Nondas Vlachopoulos was born in Toronto, Canada. After moving to Greece, he graduated from a school of dental technology in 1985. He then acquired a BSc Hons from the School of Dental Technology of the Technological Educational Institution of Athens (1989). In 1990, he established his own dental laboratory "AestheticLab" in Athens. He has been the opinion leader in Greece for Noritake dental products since 2001, while "AestheticLab" has been the company's pilot lab. Nondas specializes in aesthetic all-ceramic and implant restorations and collaborates with the Dental School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and its postgraduate programmes of Dental Prosthodontics and Dental Surgery. Nondas has organized many seminars in Greece, USA and Europe. He has participated with presentations in congress and has also published articles in Greek and foreign Dental Technology journals.

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August Bruguera, CDT is the director of a dental laboratory and training center in Barcelona, Spain. He received his training as a technician specialist in dental prosthesis at Ramón y Cajal de Barcelona School and continued his studies in private laboratories in Germany, Italy, and Switzerland. Bruguera is a member of the publishing committee for the dental magazines Dialogue (Spanish edition) and Estetica (Brazilian edition) and an honorary member of ACADEN (Associación Cientifica para Defensa e Investigación de la Protesis Dental). He has published numerous articles in national and international journals and in textbooks, including Shades: A World of Colour (Artes Medicas, 2009) and Invisible: Esthetic Ceramic Restorations (Puesta la Dia Publicaciones, 2003), issued in Portuguese, Spanish, English, German, Japanese, and Italian.

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