Josef Kolbeck: a Technical Innovator

Josef Kolbeck has accomplished a lot in his 12 years in the industry. He received his dental technology degree from the Universidad Latina of Costa Rica, served as Academic Coordinator in dental technology at that same university, owned his own lab and is currently the managing director of a five-person removable department at Town and Country Dental Studios in Freeport, NY.

Kolbeck is part technician, part innovator: he continually tests new materials and techniques to improve the lab's fabrication processes and has created many original techniques, including the Kolbeck Technique featured in the March 2012 issue of LMT. It uses a unique method of processing a fixed removable denture with the pouring technique which saves time and materials and increases accuracy. He has also developed a flexible hybrid technique that combines flexible structures with acrylics, and is in the process of developing the Kolbeck Flask, a method for simplifying acrylic denture processing.

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