October 2013

Childhood friends team up to grow Canadian laboratory from $1.4 million to $7 million in sales.

In January, Vinnie Verderosa, CDT, MDT, Stony Brook University School of Dental Medicine, spent nine days working with the Giving Through Smiles Foundation in Neltume, Chile, a remote logging village in the foothills of the Andes Mountains. He was the only technician in a 10-person team from New York,...

When it comes to marketing, more laboratories are going digital to reach dentists: they’re building websites, using social media, advertising online and phasing out printed marketing pieces in favor of digital ones.

To stay viable in today's increasingly price-sensitive, competitive market, 7% of respondents send work offshore—an average of 24% of their caseloads&mdashmost often using a U.S.-based broker. Overall, laboratory owners' sentiments on the topic of offshoring are still split; 55%&mdashup...

Christian Saurman, Vice President, New England Orthodontic Laboratory (NEO), Wilmington, MA, has implemented tools on his website to make case submission simple.

Lab Technicians Needed for CDA Cares Dental Clinic

Sponsored by the California Dental Association (CDA), CDA Foundation and America's Dentists Care Foundation

When:

Lab Tech Shifts: 7 a.m. — 1 p.m. and/or 1 p.m. — 7 p.m. each day

Saturday, December 7, 2013: Dental clinic...

The subcontracting market is strong, thanks to the ever-growing demand for digitally fabricated restorations and steady demand for cast partial frameworks.

This Fall I’m heading to the great state of Arizona for a couple of months and I’m hoping to meet some laboratory owners while I’m there. I’m also hoping I can make some stops during the drive out (the last week of October) and possibly the first week of January on the drive back.

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It's time to get involved in social media: it's free, it's easy, and more and more of your competitors are doing it.