Laughter is the Best Medicine: Introducing Barry D. the Lab Guy

Laboratories often experience the same problems on a daily basis, but rather than grumble about them, Mike Hill, President of 6-11 Dental Studio, Inc., Lake Forest, CA, decided to take a humorous approach. He started sketching cartoons related to real-world laboratory situations and writing commentary to explain how he handles the problem. Barry D. The Lab Guy was born.

What started as a fun way to express his frustrations has become his passion as well as a teaching tool for his technicians. Hill draws the rough sketches and has an illustrator create the final artwork.

LMT will be featuring Barry D. The Lab Guy in upcoming issues; here's the first in Hill's series.

We commonly receive two or more impressions for the same restoration; I'm amazed by this. The doctor may think he is being more diligent by sending us the extra impressions but in actuality, he's simply passing the liability of a remake to our laboratory.

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