Digital Technology Offers Opportunities: Theme of State of the Profession II

By LMT Communications, Inc.

Posted Apr 28, 2011 in Industry News


"Our industry is now in an evolutionary and transitory stage. The developments of the past 10 years, including CAD/CAM, advances in other technologies and the decline in formal educational programs have led to a 'tipping point'," said moderator Bill Mrazek, BS, CDT, during his opening remarks at the State of the Profession II meeting sponsored by the Illinois Dental Laboratory Association (IDLA) and the Chicagoland Dental Technician Study Group (CDTSG) in Lisle, Illinois this September. The event was organized by IDLA and CDTSG board members Mrazek and Paul Vena; IDLA President and CDTSG board member Mark Williamson, CDT; and IDLA Executive Director Karen Sharpe.



LMT President Judy Fishman, the first of nine panelists to speak to an audience of approximately 50 lab owners and technicians, added that the industry has begun to "gray" in the last decade as well, with many lab owners and technicians quickly approaching retirement age. "We are getting old,"...

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