Inspiring Interiors

Instead of building a costly addition to its Maumee, OH, facility, Lantz Dental Prosthetics worked with an architect to create a better layout within its existing footprint, making room for nearly twice as many staff members.

Express Dental Laboratory's new 12,000-square-foot-facility in Norman, OK, offers the team ample space for growth; see inside the new lab.

General Managers Jamie Bartley and Robert Ratliff renovated a 100-year-old building into a stunning 19,000-square-foot laboratory that blends historic charm with modern features.

Lab Owners Beth Wiand and Tom Wiand, CDT, reimagined a former bank building, renovating it into their lab’s sleek, modern new home. Here's a look inside the new space:

Renstrom Dental Studio’s new, 18,000-square-foot facility features modern industrial touches, dedicated space for CE and room for growth.

For Jay and Katrina Emirzian, husband-and-wife veteran technicians and Owners of Galaxy Dental Lab in Anderson, SC, a typical workday isn’t quite so typical. In addition to running a C&B laboratory, they own a 30-acre farm. Their day is a patchwork of tasks that includes feeding nearly 40 animals,...

Founded in 1968 by Don Perrin, Champlain Dental Laboratory spent 50-plus years in a basement space in downtown Burlington, VT, with tiny windows where the only view was of people’s feet as they walked by. Let’s just say that the lab—which changed ownership and was eventually purchased...

Veteran lab owner, Greg Sederlin, CDT, FICOI, MAAIP, has had his share of experience renovating laboratories. For instance, he’s now in the second location for his current lab, Masters Of Dental Aesthetics, Inc. (MODA) in Westlake Village, CA. This time around, it was all about convenience.

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In 2019, Christian Hall, Co-Owner of Hallmark Dental Laboratory, knew something had to change. The 60-person Halifax, Nova Scotia lab had outgrown the space it had rented for 13 years. So, when a piece of land located across from a beautiful Rails-to-Trails became available, Hall realized it was an opportunity...

In 2018, Jamey Schropp—Owner of Midwest Dental Arts with four locations* across the U.S.—was fed up with his 5,200-square-foot lab in Melbourne, FL: even with air conditioning it was too hot throughout much of the year and his staff had grown, making the space very cramped. Since Schropp...

Here's a look inside Todd Reid's laboratory, a 3,600-square-foot building with plenty of room for growth.

After 30+ years in the same 2,100-square-foot location, Precision Esthetics Dental Laboratory found a new, larger home in a 8,100-square foot former art gallery

See inside Jillian Swafford's 1,800-square-foot dream lab, located on her 27-acre property in Pikeville, TN.

Perfect Finish Ortho Lab invested more than $600,000 to renovate a vacant office space and greatly enhance the air quality and work environment for its employees.

Lab owners Aaron and Jennifer Garner had spent the last seven years working as an in-house lab for Aaron’s brother’s dental practice, Orchard Meadows Family Dental. And while they loved working chairside with patients, they didn’t love the small, cramped space in which they functioned....

In 2020, Orthodent Laboratory (ODL) was located in a newly redone, 15,000-square-foot building near downtown Buffalo, NY. The space featured exposed brick, huge windows and tons of indoor greenery. There was just one big problem: it was on the top two floors of a four-story building—a location...

Take a look inside Synergy Ceramics Dental Studio in McKinney, TX, a 2,500-square-foot facility with modern, high-end touches and a dedicated space for continuing education.

Like so many others, when COVID-19 hit in March 2020, Chelsie Wilson, CDT, was furloughed. She was working as a denture technician in a large laboratory and had plans to open her own lab inside a dentist-client’s office later that year when his new building was complete; she would handle all of...

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...

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.

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...