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Let’s drill into the numbers to discover the trends and challenges prevalent in the dentist community, using statistics from the ADA’s Health Policy Institute.

From dealing with DSOs and recruiting technicians to increasing sales and managing growth, laboratory owners and managers have a lot on their minds in 2025. Here are strategies for managing some of the challenges:

Forty-nine percent of LMT's State of the Industry Survey respondents plan on retiring in the next five years. If you're one of them, here are some key considerations.

By Shannon LeBlanc, Chief Operations Officer; Hallmark Dental Laboratory in Halifax, NS; 63 employees

In the last five years, we’ve doubled our laboratory’s revenue and I would attribute much of that growth to our efforts to enhance our productivity and efficiency. The ability to continually...

By the team at Murray Kaizer Dental Laboratory, Farmington, CT

This patient presented with several unique congenital disabilities. She was born with a cleft palate and a narrow, underdeveloped maxilla resulting in an inability to properly eat or speak.

Due to the intricacy of this case, we had to design...

BySean Chun, Owner, JC Dental Arts Studio, Carlsbad, CA

The female patient in her 40s presented with a missing tooth #8. She didn’t want an implant so we decided to fabricate a three-unit bridge for teeth #7-9 as well as a single crown on #10. Because of the patient’s clenching habit, we...

In support of our nation’s veterans, Ward Dental Laboratory, Brighton, MI, has been partnering with Victors for Veterans (V4V) since its inception in 2012. V4V, part of the University of Michigan Dental School’s community-based collaborative care program, offers free or low-cost dental care...

Skender Ramadani offers a step-by-step look at his submission to Candulor's International KunstZahnWerk Competition 2023.

American Tooth Industries has been family-owned and -operated for over 50 years.

While still in its infancy, AI has begun to make its mark on our industry as lab owners discover how this emerging technology can achieve more predictable outcomes and save production time and labor.

Early adopters are using AI-based software such as CADflow for automatic bracket removal and model basing...

As the global economy began recovering from losses caused by the pandemic, inflation surged and by June 2022 it was at its highest level in 40 years, affecting everything from the price of groceries to the housing market.

As a result of these economic pressures and uncertainty, lab operators took proactive...

This shift in technology usage in the dental office has been welcome news among laboratories looking to reap the benefits of a completely digital workflow and an increasing number of laboratories are able to embrace the model-less concept.

Between 2017 and 2021, for instance, the percentage of labs...

Just as HIV did in the late 1980s, the COVID-19 pandemic brought infection control concerns to the forefront and, consequently, use of IO scanning gained notable traction. LMT’s

midst the rapid spread of COVID-19 and schools and businesses shutting down all over the country, the ADA announced on March 16, 2020, that it was advising dentists to limit procedures to emergencies only. As a result, laboratory workloads ground to a halt and layoffs and furloughs were rampant.

Because...