September 2009

Make sure you fill a market need, know how to find the clients in that target market, become their trusted advisor and make sure your work lives up to the standards

they expect.

Are you getting the most from your precious metal scrap? Or are valuable dollars literally slipping through your fingers? Refiners share their hints for maximizing your scrap returns and elaborate on their services.

Establish regular scrap collection procedures and be diligent about sticking to...

“Rapid prototyping is the future,” says Dennis Lanier, co-owner, Lab2000, a 30-person operation in Columbus, Georgia.

Dennis Ouye, CDT addresses the importance of proper design and structural support.

Fractures in ceramic restorations have always been a challenge for technicians. Traditionally, they were caused by the lack of strength of feldspathic ceramic and insufficient bonding to the tooth.

While newer,...

Once the focus of great controversy, Interdent in Manila has grown to a staff of 700 and regularly services a few hundred laboratories in 78 countries.

Jerry Doviack used to be shunned at laboratory meetings. Now, 25 years later, laboratory owners are flocking to him for advice.

Jerry and his...

Online social networking isn't just for kids anymore. For instance, Facebook, originally conceived by a Harvard student as a student network, showed a 276% increase in its 35- to 54-year-old demographic for the second half of 2008; the 55+ demographic was not far behind, with a 194% growth rate.

Tapping...

LMT Editor Kelly Carr attends ADA conference on major issues affecting our profession

By bringing fixed and removable technicians together in one department, industry leader Glidewell Laboratories has streamlined combination casework and dramatically enhanced communication.

Two heads are better than one. That simple axiom is the foundation of Glidewell Laboratories' combination case...