Blast from the Past
Posted Feb 15, 2019 in Publisher's Page
In our ongoing celebration of our 35th year in business, I asked readers what dental laboratory-related items they would have put in a time capsule in 1984—the year LMT was founded—to be opened today. Here are some of their responses:
“A Bränemark Hybrid Prosthesis; in September 1984, the first patient in New England was restored with this type of prosthesis using the Bränemark System external hex implants with standard 4mm abutments. At that time, the prosthesis was designed to be ‘high water.’ Dr. Gary Rogoff was the prosthodontist, Dr. Leonard Shulman was the oral surgeon and I fabricated the prosthesis,” says Ira Dickerman, CDT, TE, Owner, Dickerman Dental Prosthetics, Sharon,...