Analog and digital laboratory protocols of metal ceramic restoration in the vertical preparation technique

Dental technician and prosthetic laboratory director (Naples, Italy); one of Italy's foremost laboratory-side authorities on the VerticalPrep (BOPT/vertical preparation) technique. Founded his dental laboratory in 2000, dedicating it entirely to the fabrication of prosthetic restorations for vertically prepared teeth — crown margins designed to adapt to and reshape the biological width rather than respect a fixed preparation line.

Developer and first practitioner of the inverted spacer protocol for crowns in the VerticalPrep workflow — a laboratory innovation that inverts the conventional die spacer application logic to optimize marginal seal, crown seating depth, and axial profile control in vertical preparations. The protocol addresses one of the key technical challenges in VerticalPrep crown fabrication: the precise reproduction of the emergence profile and the management of the marginal zone where the crown interacts with the junctional epithelium.

Diploma in Dentistry — A. Murri Technical Institute. Works in close clinical collaboration with prosthodontists to coordinate the full VerticalPrep team workflow from provisional design through to final ceramic delivery.