Digital Impressions

The excitement and enthusiasm for innovation and technology was tangible in the 13 exhibit halls that housed 2,327 companies from 64 countries at the IDS 2019 in Cologne, Germany in March.

Fifty-nine percent of laboratories now accept digital impressions and most laud the technology for streamlining workflows and allowing them to shorten their turnaround. Currently, they consider about one quarter of the intraoral scans they receive to be inadequate; however, most say the quality of these...

A model-less workflow eliminates more steps of the fabrication process, and reduces labor and materials costs and production times. Here are five key considerations if you’re planning to go model free and ways to get you dentist-clients on board

“The thing we most often hear from new clients is, ‘Wow! That was quick. Our old lab usually took a couple of weeks minimum’,” says Bill Atkission, Owner, Bella Vita Dental Designs, a three-person lab in Arden, NC. “Our turnaround time is three days max for a local client...

“We’re in the midst of the fourth industrial revolution: it’s all about interoperability of devices and connectivity between dentists and labs. The end result is better patient care.” said Stanley M. Bergman, Chairman of the Board and CEO of Henry Schein, kicking off the company’s...

Laboratory respondents to our State of the Industry 2015 survey ranked clients’ impression-taking skills as their number-one client-related challenge, saying one quarter of the impressions that come into their laboratory are inadequate, a result of dentists not following manufacturers’ guidelines,...

LMT taps into the expertise of 20 laboratory owners and managers from all size labs who’ve successfully incorporated digital technology into their operations, offering real-life experiences and tips on what we all wish we would have known before taking the plunge.