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- September 2012
Technology to Watch: AvaDent™ Digital Dentures
Kelly Fessel Carr · Digital Dentistry · Sep 2012>Since launching AvaDent Digital Dentures last fall, Global Dental Science has milled close to 2,000 arches. The dentures are currently being marketed directly to dentists; a laboratory partnership model is in the works. "With AvaDent Digital Dentures, we are changing the entire fabrication process...
2012 Removables Survey: Removable Market Holding Its Own
Kelly Fessel Carr · LMT Surveys · Sep 2012Forty-five percent of respondents to LMT's exclusive 2012 Removable Survey rate the market as good and 35% classify it as fair. The majority say their removable business in the first half of 2012 is level or just slightly up or down compared to all of 2011. At one end of the spectrum is the 9% of...
- August 2012
CDA Cares: 'It's a Beautiful Thing'
Kim Molinaro · Industry News · Aug 2012Fourteen technician-volunteers bring partials and dentures to patients in need, working on about 150 arches in two days.
- June 2012
The Future of the Small Laboratory: Grim Or Great?
Kelly Fessel Carr · LMT Surveys · Jun 2012The majority of respondents to LMT's Small Lab Survey are enthusiastic about the outlook for their own businesses, calling their future "good" or "great." However, their prediction for the market segment as a whole isn't quite so rosy.
Rayne Verity likes this- May 2012
Positioned For Growth By Going Full Service
Kelly Fessel Carr · Labs & Profiles · May 2012Eleven years after purchasing Choate Ceramic Laboratory, Co-Owners Jimmy Durham, David Fitch, CDT, and Alton Trotter, CDT, moved out of their ceramic comfort zone and into the realm of removables.
- April 2012
LAB DAY Product Launch: Candulor Announces New Denture Products
LMT Communications, Inc. · LAB DAY · Apr 2012"For the next 20 years, 10,000 people will reach the age of 65 on a daily basis," said Max Sturm, President of Candulor, during a press conference at LAB DAY. "In addition, 12% of all dentures are now implant supported and we expect to see 6.5% growth in this area next year." To meet this increasing...
Jorge Casavantes, CDT likes thisAnd the Winners in Candulor's 'Oscars' Are...
LMT Communications, Inc. · LAB DAY · Apr 2012Calling it the "Oscars for denture technicians," Candulor announced the winners of its first-ever North American Kunstzahnwerk (Art of Denture) Competition at LAB DAY. The technician-participants displayed their proficiency in removables by fabricating a fully removable upper and lower bar-retained overdenture. Taking...
LAB DAY Product Launch: Heraeus Expands Mondial Denture Tooth Line
LMT Communications, Inc. · LAB DAY · Apr 2012To meet the needs of implant, geriatric and TMJ patients, Heraeus Kulzer launched its Mondial 8i-5° posterior tooth line. "New indication areas such as implant prosthetics are placing increased demands on the stability, function and esthetics of denture teeth," said Lesley Melvin, Heraeus Laboratory...
- March 2012
The Kolbeck Technique
Josef Kolbeck · Technical · Mar 2012Josef Kolbeck offers a step-by-step look at his time- and material-saving method of processing a fixed removable denture with the pouring technique that he uses at Town & Country Dental Studios in Freeport, NY.


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