May 2019

“I don’t believe in CAD/CAM; I think CAD/CAM is a dead end—and I know it’s a sin to say that!” laughs Olivier Tric, MDT, CDT. “To me, to be modern is to have less, not more—no car, no TV, no expensive CAD/CAM equipment. Modern is an attitude.”

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When husband and wife Alexander and Danielle Wünsche purchased Zahntechnique in 2014, the 12-person, full service lab was located in a 2,500-square-foot building in Miami with small rooms and narrow hallways. The only way to access the lab was through an alley near a dive bar. “The lab’s...

It was almost impossible to choose; it’s like asking a musician to pick his favorite song or a bookworm to name her favorite book. But here are the issues that stand out for each of us and why they made such an impression. Do YOU have a favorite issue of LMT? Let’s hear about it: email

Like the words in the song about Lady Godiva, a packed audience of laboratory owners were “craning their necks to see” every detail of...slides of laboratory interiors. Were you expecting me to talk about something salacious? For our community, laboratory design is a spicy topic. At the particular...

Absolute Dental Services knows a thing or two about growth: Due to its constantly expanding roster of staff members and services, it has renovated its Durham, NC, headquarters five times in the last 13 years. “If I have any advice for other lab owners, it’s this: if you’re expanding,...

In 1978, Barry Treasure, Owner of Treasure Dental Lab in Idaho Falls, ID, built a facility with two of his dentist-clients; the practice was located on the building’s main level and the 3,000-square-foot laboratory was located in the basement. That setup worked well for over 25 years but, in 2005,...

The excitement and enthusiasm for innovation and technology was tangible in the 13 exhibit halls that housed 2,327 companies from 64 countries at the IDS 2019 in Cologne, Germany in March.

Lois Carle, CDA, had a vision for her lab: she wanted it to be an open, digital operation with an emphasis on customer service. She had the right equipment, the right staff and the right partner in Co-Owner Paul Mancini, CDT, but there was one problem: the lab’s small, cramped location, which was...

In 2018, the more than 40 staff members at Dental Designs Inc.’s Lincoln, NE, headquarters, were “elbow-to-elbow, and equipment was randomly placed—our Stratasys printer was in a supply closet!” says Joe Barrett, who co-owns the lab with Ben and Ryan Sweeney and their father Tim....

In 2018, Utah Valley Dental Lab saw the writing on the wall: the 80-person Provo, UT laboratory had outgrown its 9,000-square-foot space, severely limiting its potential for growth. Spread between three floors, the laboratory was poorly configured and the tight, cramped space was creating personnel issues....

In 2017, after growing from a four-person analog lab to an 18-person digital lab in less than a decade (visit LMTmag.com/concordDL to read the coverage in LMT’s March 2019 issue), it was time for Concord Dental Laboratory...