Technician Creates Unique Service for CEREC and E4D Dentists

By Kim Molinaro

Posted Jun 15, 2016 in Labs & Profiles

To help dentists reap the benefits of their chairside CAD/CAM systems, Christian Scull sets up in-office laboratories, establishes protocol and trains dental assistants to design and finish the units.


When Christian Scull talked to dentists who had invested in a chairside CAD/CAM system, he was struck by how many of them weren’t maximizing the potential of the systems. “The doctors had invested $150,000 in a system but, because they were the ones designing and finishing cases, they had turned themselves into technicians and were losing valuable chairtime,” says Scull, Co-Owner of Centric Alliance, a four-person in-office lab in Fort Worth, TX.


Their challenge sparked a business idea Scull has turned into a new service: focusing on milled same-day, single units for which dentists can charge a premium, he sets up in-office laboratories for CEREC and E4D dentists, training a dental assistant to handle the bulk of the work. He’s tapping into his previous...

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  • Kim Molinaro

    Managing Editor at LMT Communications, Inc. · West Hartford, CT

    In her 25+ years with LMT, Kim has managed to combine her creative flair—infusing energy into our content and orchestrating some of our most popular theme issues—with the practical focus of keeping our processes...

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