Removable Articles

From the Series: IDS 2013 Offers First Look at Emerging Innovations

Removable Arena

Are digital dentures coming our way? Also, to meet the growing demand for removable restorations, several manufacturers introduced new teeth and other accompanying products to enhance function, esthetics and efficiency.

Preat Introduces New PRISM Services, Removable and Implant Products

Preat Corp.'s PRISM Milling Center now offers implant frameworks with a new pearl texture surface, which provides mechanical retention and maximum space for resin for increased esthetics. The frameworks are created using selective laser melting and the finish lines and implant interfaces are then milled. PRISM...

From the Series: 40 Under Forty

Krista Hartley, CDT: a Standout in the Removable Specialty

"Most of the other students were taken by the 'glamour' of ceramics, but I was drawn to dentures," says Krista Hartley, CDT, referring to her experience at Indian River State College's dental technology program. "I love the challenges of the denture specialty, setting the teeth and establishing the vertical...

From the Series: 40 Under Forty

Lauri Steffen: Eager to Prove Removable Prosthetics Are Alive and Kicking

>Age: 32 >Production Manager at My Dentist, Inc. >Oklahoma City, OK Lauri Steffen has something to prove. While she's had plenty of opportunities to branch out from removable prosthetics during her 12-year career, she's opted not to. Why? "With so much emphasis being put on fixed restorations,...

2012 Removables Survey: Removable Market Holding Its Own

Forty-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...

Removables: Full-speed Ahead

Forget what you've heard about a bleak future for the removables market. Laboratory owners say the market is thriving and the future is bright...

Removables Market Update: Still Thriving

The removables market continues to thrive thanks to a growing demand from an aging population, increasing consumer awareness of esthetic dentistry, and product and technological developments. Two of the market’s key growth areas are implant-retained

Welcome Back, Removables

Twenty-five years after selling off its removables department, Knight Dental Group gets back in the game.

Highlights of Annual CAD/CAM Event: Removable Solutions, Software to Open Closed Systems

It was standing-room-only at DLOAC’s annual CAD/CAM Symposium and Expo as nearly 300 laboratory owners and managers, outsourcing centers and manufacturers turned out for two days of lectures, demonstr