May 2021

Since augmenting its cast chrome RPD services with SLM frameworks five years ago, Bertram Dental Lab has been on a significant growth trajectory; the more recent addition of printed surgical guides is further accelerating that path. Consequently, after 40 years in its Neenah, WI, location, the lab needed...

Finding a laboratory space in New York City that isn’t a budget buster is no easy task—just ask Marc Dixon, CDT.

“Over the course of several months, I probably looked at 1,000 different places online,” says Dixon, Owner of Decadent Laboratories in Brooklyn, NY, a solo operation...

Team Solutions Dental Lab in Sanford, FL, recently took a closer look at its operations and procedures; here's what they found:

Thanks to the pandemic, most of us had lackluster birthdays and minimal celebrations during 2020—but not Laboratory Owner Lonni Thompson, CDT. On her birthday last June, she moved into what she calls her “dream laboratory.”

After 20 years in the same building, the space at Image Gallery...

Inspiring Interiors is an ongoing series in LMT. We asked laboratory owners whose facilities we’ve previously profiled to explain the features that still thrill them and what they wish they had done differently. Their perspectives provide pearls of wisdom from those who have been down the renovation...

In 2015, Caner Karaceper earned his Denturism degree and opened Smile Denture and Implant Clinic in Ottawa, in the same building as Smile Dental Lab, owned by his father, Cengiz, and cousin, Burak. At first the arrangement was ideal: the businesses operated independently while sharing the lab’s...

In December 2019, when the gorgeous end-unit next door to Tiara Dental Lab in Naples, FL, came up for sale, Owner Doug Baker jumped at the chance to buy it. While his current 1,750-square-foot rented space was adequate for his nine-person lab, “it just wasn’t ours,” Baker laments.

The...