April 2016

Celebrating its 10-year anniversary of exhibiting at LMT LAB DAY Chicago, 3Shape launched a special campaign offer for laboratories that already own a 3Shape lab scanner: they can now purchase an additional 3Shape lab scanner and receive up to five years of 3Shape LABcare™—that includes training,...

Airway Management launched the dreamTAP, its latest sleep apnea/snoring appliance that offers more tongue space for greater comfort than the original TAP. The screw mechanism has also been changed from stainless steel to cobalt-chromium, increasing strength and eliminating the possibility of an allergic...

Amann Girrbach introduced Ceramill Zolid FX Multilayer to the U.S. market at LMT LAB DAY Chicago. Ceramill Zolid FX Multilayer is a polychromatic, super-high-translucent zirconia with an integrated shade and translucency gradient. Smooth shade transitions simulate enamel, dentin and cervical shades in...

Argen launched its ArgenZ Anterior Value Shaded Disc System, a collection of pre-shaded super translucent zirconia that covers all 16 shades of the VITA Classic shade guide with just six value shaded discs. Each disc covers two to three shades based on value and chroma, requiring less inventory and mill...

Much like the polarization we’re seeing in our country this election year, members of our community—including, of course, the dentists we serve—have different ideas about where they think our industry is headed and, more interestingly, why.

Some believe independent dental laboratories...

Aurident’s Delta Milling Center is now offering BruxZir® Anterior Shaded anterior and premolar crowns and bridges in addition to Delta Yttria-Stabilized Zirconia restorations. At LMT LAB DAY, it also announced three specials, effective until July 31, 2016:

A free titanium scan body with your...

AvaDent Digital Dentures showcased its four latest innovations:

AvaDent SHARE™ is AvaDent’s new “insourcing” option that allows you to mill AvaDent Digital Dentures in your laboratory within two days. After you send in your impression scans, AvaDent delivers the AvaDent .stl...

Biodenta North America launched its DentaSwiss PreFAB-4 system, an open CAD/CAM system with a price point below $30,000. Using the system, that includes the DS1300 wet milling unit and 3Shape scanner and design software, laboratories can produce CAD/CAM custom abutments in compliance with FDA regulations...

DENTSPLY launched two new products at LMT LAB DAY:

The ATLANTIS CustomBase solution is a combination of an ATLANTIS patient-specific abutment and an ATLANTIS Core File with a screw access hole already indicated, providing a proper foundation for screw-retained restorations. Available for all major implant...

In order to offer a comprehensive suite of CAD/CAM solutions for digital dentistry, Digital Dental Lab and Dental Laboratory Milling Supplies have merged to form Digital Dental. Headquartered in Scottsdale, AZ, the new company offers the leading brands of Crystal® Zirconia, Dental Mill machines...

When he’s not in the lab, you can find Leroy Starling, The Dental Workshop, Whitefish, MT, out on the water looking for a different kind of bite.

James “The Denture Man” Angelone (center), North Royalton, OH, was the lucky winner of Handler’s 2010DCU Denture Curing Unit. Angelone is pictured with Handler’s CEO Bill Lehman and LMT’s Judy Fishman. Bill Lehman has been with Handler for more than 50 years and its CEO for almost 40 years. 

Alongside demonstrations from well-known technicians including Peter Pizzi, Thomas Sing, Jungo Endo and Javier Vasquez, Harvest Dental debuted several new products in the LMT LAB DAY Exhibit Hall.

Developed by Sascha Hein and the Bio-Emulation group—a collaborative, global think tank of renowned...

Heraeus Kulzer’s clinic, Expanding Business Opportunities Presented with the PALA Digital Denture System, included an exciting LMT LAB DAY first: a live patient demonstration. Here, Dr. Lou Graham and Dental Assistant Yolanda Davila, take a patient’s impression and bite registration while...

Never before in U.S. history have so many dental professionals gathered under one roof to attend a lab technology-specific event. In February, LMT LAB DAY Chicago welcomed 4,163 attendees!

Laboratory Owner Bill Atkission explains how the Bio-copy function of inLab SW 15 copies the patient’s intact natural teeth, the temporary restoration or a diagnostic waxup to create anatomically correct restorations.

For the second year in a row, Ivoclar Vivadent raffled off an IvoBase-System in their LMT LAB DAY Chicago ballroom. The winner (center) was Lee Anne Sibila, Owner, Oralab Dental Laboratory, LLC, Bullard, TX, who was thrilled as she’s wanted a system for years. The fully automated press injector...

Anthony Arcari, CDT, Owner of Arcari Dental Laboratory in Wakefield, MA, was a winner in Ivoclar Vivadent’s “Passport to IDS” promotion at LMT LAB DAY Chicago. He received a trip for himself and a guest to the 2017 International Dental Show in Cologne, Germany next March. Due to the...

If you saw LMT LAB DAY attendees walking around with stickers on their lapels, they were likely competing in Jensen Dental’s new product giveaways. Once an hour, an attendee wearing an Imagine™ sticker was randomly stopped and awarded a can of Jensen’s InSync universal spray glaze,...

Nearly 200 laboratory owners, managers and technicians filled Jensen Dental’s Education Day lecture hall at the Swissôtel in Chicago on February 26 and an additional 200 attendees joined remotely via the streaming live webcast. Now in its 22nd year, attendees saw a stellar lineup including...

Many thanks to the following LMT LAB DAY Chicago 2016 exhibitors for their generous door prize donations awarded to 59 lucky attendees totaling over $15,400. And the winners are . . .

“Technicians tell me that dentists are always texting photos to them. Rather than having to get the photo off their phones and onto a computer, they can simply upload the photo directly to the case file using our new iPhone/iPad app, LabStar Attach,” said Jeff Noles, CEO of LabStar Software....

Wilfred Fernandez, CDT, Wilfer Dentures Laboratory in Springfield, VA, was the first attendee to register onsite using LMT’s faster, more efficient badge printing software from ATS. The system was especially fast for those who pre-registered; they received an email with a QR code a few days before...

There were many companies exhibiting at LMT LAB DAY for the first time:

Based in São Carlos, Brazil and founded in 1977, Bio-Art Equipamentos Odontologicos offers a variety of small equipment, including articulators and facebows, microblasters, vacuum forming machines, curing lights, magnifiers,...

Digital technology product lines continue to expand and this year’s attendees got the first look at new scanners, 3D printers, milling units and software options, as well as a host of new materials.

“We’re in the midst of the fourth industrial revolution: it’s all about interoperability of devices and connectivity between dentists and labs. The end result is better patient care.” said Stanley M. Bergman, Chairman of the Board and CEO of Henry Schein, kicking off the company’s...

Dortmund, Germany-based DOCERAM Medical Ceramics has established a wholly owned American subsidiary, Nacera US, Inc., with distribution facilities in New Castle, DE. It offers multiple lines of zirconia, porcelain oven cleaning products, and single-bake ceramic products for staining, glazing and veneering....

To celebrate 15 years of Lava brand success, 3M launched a new website at LMT LAB DAY Chicago dedicated to showcasing before-and-after case photos that demonstrate the esthetics and strength of Lava-brand zirconia crowns and bridges. In its 15 years of clinical use, millions of Lava restorations have...

It took LAB DAY to bring them together: several years ago, Heather Tesoriero (then Pear) and Vincent Tesoriero were both taking classes with Peter Pizzi, MDT, in Staten Island, NY, but they had never met. On the way to LAB DAY in 2013, they were both booked on the same flight, but Heather had to change...

Over the last few years, there has been an explosion in the number of new or improved material options for digital fabrication. LMT’s exclusive 2016 Digital Materials eSurvey asked how they are impacting workloads and uncovered three key trends.

Allison Fissel (left), Vice President of New Business Development at Conestoga Equipment, Orion’s financing partner, draws the winning name in the Orion Welder mPulse 30 raffle as the company’s Joel Miller looks on. The winner was Jose Luis Teran of Lombard, IL. The mPulse 30 is a small pulse...

Ottawa Dental Laboratory sent a whopping 48 staff members to LMT LAB DAY to take advantage of CE opportunities, network with their peers, and get an up-close look at new products and services. Pictured here are three members of the administrative staff (from l. to r.): Kelsey Tomano, HR representative;...

Given all of the talk about the commoditization of our industry, the CAL-Lab Group’s focus on maximizing profits during its 90th annual meeting in Chicago was right on point. Chaired by Jim Gorgol, CDT, the meeting attracted 774 attendees and highlighted strategies for building your bottom line,...

Rhein83’s new 600-page book, Techno-Clinical Aspects of Fixed Removable Prosthetics, features 23 detailed, step-by-step treatment plans for implant-supported and combined removable prostheses. Authored by 27 of the leading dentists, technicians and professors from Italy, the book offers guidelines,...

Shining 3D demonstrated its new EinScan-Pro™ multi-functional handheld face scanner, which rapidly captures 3D data, including face contours for use with implant indications. The scanner features four scan options: handheld rapid scan, handheld HD scan, automatic scan and free scan. The external...

The LMT staff is still on a high from LMT® LAB DAY® Chicago at the end of February. We had record-breaking attendance—4,163 people, up from 3,501 last year! Attendees came from 49 states plus Washington, D.C. and 58 different countries—that’s 15 more than in 2015—making...

Talladium launched the C5 MASTERmill, an affordable, five-axis unit that mills zirconia, PMMA, stone and composites. With a rotation range up to 35°, it’s ideal for fabricating models and surgical guides and holds blanks up to 40mm. Its 16-tool automatic changer has a haptic tool-usage measurement...

LMT’s President Judy Fishman joined TravelFlo Group’s Robert Wisler (left) and Tim Hieb to draw the winning ticket for the company’s Bose SoundLink Speaker giveaway. The winner was Jungeun Kim from Dallas, TX.

Panthera Dental featured two new bars developed in collaboration with clients in order to meet their needs.

The Integrated Bar™ is a wrap-around implant bar that can be removed by the patient. Once the bar is removed, the patient only has to clean the small abutment. Nylon serves as the retention...

Wagner Rotary showcased several new lines of instruments at LMT LAB DAY. Cerulean™ Blue handpiece carbides feature a super nitride coating made of TiAIN (Titanium Alumina Nitride). Their nanocomposite structure offers increased hardness, durability and extremely smooth cutting and is ISO 513 certified....

Zahn Dental’s LMT LAB DAY Ballroom was bustling with attendees eager to see the company’s new line of open CAD/CAM equipment, Novux®, for printing, scanning and milling. The printing line includes the NX 3 Print and NX 4 Print printers and the NX 3D Print Box for post-curing. For scanning...

Zirkonzahn has expanded its milling unit line—which includes the upgradable M5 Milling Unit and the M1 Compact Line Milling Unit—with the new M4 Milling Unit. It’s equipped with built-in wet processing function and 5+1 simultaneous axes milling technology, making it easier to mill hard-to-reach...