The Crown Experiment 2007: Not in My Mouth!

By LMT Communications, Inc.

Posted Apr 28, 2011 in LMT Surveys


Identical impressions were sent anonymously to nine very different laboratories. The resulting crowns were evaluated by a panel of highly trained dentists and dental technologists. Every one of them resoundingly said: "I wouldn't want any of these in my mouth."



The evaluators--as well as LMT--were surprised by the disappointing quality of the nine crowns in our experiment, which earned an average score of only 4.3 on a scale of 0 to 10. Click here to see the average scores received by each crown in all categories. "These are amateurish crowns with no natural contours," said evaluator Fred Hornedo, Jr., MDT, manager of Acqua-Dent Dental Laboratory, Jamesburg, New Jersey. To see the crowns, click here.


Our evaluators also criticized the shallow anatomy, gray or too-bright shades and the poor staining and glazing. However, what concerned them most was that none of these...

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