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Maribeth Marsico wrote an article
The majority of respondents to LMT's 2012 Fee Survey are delaying fee increases in the face of price-cutting...(more)
Industry Fees Reflect Sluggish Economic Recovery
Maribeth Marsico · Other · Oct 2012>The majority of respondents to LMT's 2012 Fee Survey are delaying fee increases in the face of price-cutting competition and declining caseloads. With the country in the midst of what analysts are calling the slowest economic recovery since the Great Depression, laboratory owners say they are...
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Kelly Fessel Carr wrote an article
2012 Removables Survey: Removable Market Holding Its Own
Kelly Fessel Carr · Lab Owner · 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...
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Kim Molinaro wrote an article
Uncertainty prevails among the respondents to LMT's 2012 Wage Survey and they're being cautious about...(more)
LMT's Exclusive 2012 Wage Survey Report: Earnings Down, Staffs Lean
Kim Molinaro · Lab Manager · Sep 2012>Uncertainty prevails among the respondents to LMT's 2012 Wage Survey and they're being cautious about rehiring or raising wages. On a positive note, more than half saw an uptick in business in the first part of 2012. Although more than half of respondents to LMT's 2012 Wage Survey saw an uptick in...
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Kelly Fessel Carr wrote an article
The majority of respondents to LMT's Small Lab Survey are enthusiastic about the outlook for their own...(more)
The Future of the Small Laboratory: Grim Or Great?
Kelly Fessel Carr · Lab Owner · Jun 2012>Small laboratories—those with one to three people—are the backbone of our industry, representing more than 50% of the U.S. market. LMT's Small Lab Survey offers an overview of who they are, how they work and their outlook for the future of their own businesses as well as their market segment...
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LMT Communications, Inc. wrote an article
Three-quarters of respondents to LMT's Implant Trends survey say the economy has not affected their implant...(more)
Implant Trends: Patient Acceptance Key to This (Still) Thriving Specialty
LMT Communications, Inc. · May 2012This recession has nothing on implants. Although LMT's periodic Business Barometer surveys have reflected laboratories' sluggish workloads during the last few years, our latest Implant Trends survey finds this specialty is more than holding its own. Three-quarters of our respondents say the economy has...
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Implant Trends: Patient Acceptance Key to This (Still) Thriving Specialty
LMT Communications, Inc. · Industry News · May 2012
Three-quarters of respondents to LMT's Implant Trends survey say the economy has not affected their implant business; in fact, 68% report it has been "good" or even "booming" over the last two years
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The Future of the Small Laboratory: Grim Or Great?
Kelly Fessel Carr · LMT Surveys · Jun 2012
The 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...See more as a whole isn't quite so rosy.
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LMT's Exclusive 2012 Wage Survey Report: Earnings Down, Staffs Lean
Kim Molinaro · LMT Surveys · Sep 2012
Uncertainty prevails among the respondents to LMT's 2012 Wage Survey and they're being cautious about rehiring or raising wages. On a positive note, more than half saw an uptick in
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2012 Removables Survey: Removable Market Holding Its Own
Kelly Fessel Carr · LMT Surveys · Sep 2012
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...See more or just slightly up or down compared to all of 2011. At one end of the spectrum is the 9% of survey participants who say the market is booming and that business is markedly up. "All areas of our removable department are up. We had a record May and July was not far behind. As far as fixed, we are down double digits," says Gary Iocco, Owner, Dimension Dental Design, Hastings, MN. At the opposite end of the scale is the 11% who say the market is poor. "We're down 30 to 40%. Not much new work is coming in; mostly repairs, temporaries and nightguards," says the President of a New Jersey lab. About one third of our respondents are seeing an uptick in the number of complete dentures being prescribed by their GP clients. Restorations for which they've seen the greatest increase in demand include dentures with more esthetic characterization, implant-retained overdentures, economy dentures and hybrid dentures. ###Flexible Partials on the Rise More than 90% of our survey participants also offer partial dentures; on average, 80% of their workload is cast partials and 20% is flexible. However, demand for flexible partials is on the rise, with about half of our respondents selling more flexible partials than they did five years ago. And among those who are fabricating partials as a service to other labs, 21% note an increase in the demand for flexible partials. Partial denture outsourcing is also on the rise; about 20% say they are outsourcing more flexible and cast partials than they did in 2007. Sixty percent of our respondents outsource their cast partials and about a third outsource their flexible partials. On the following pages are LMT's Product Focus on denture-base materials, teeth and partial denture systems and Technology to Watch: AvaDent's Digital Denture, which features a digitally designed and milled denture base into which conventional denture teeth are set. ###In the Past Five Years The restorations for which demand has increased the most significantly are: Complete dentures with whiter, brighter teeth Flexible RPDs Implant-retained overdentures Economy dentures Hybrid dentures The most significant advances in removables, according to respondents are: Bleach denture tooth shades More natural-looking denture teeth Advances in thermoplastics Improvements in acrylic teeth Colored clasps Survey Demographics: LMT received 206 Removable Surveys via email and snail mail. The respondents represent an accurate regional cross-section of our industry and the breakdown by lab type is: 10% complete denture; 4% partial denture; 66% complete and partial denture; and 20% full service. More than three-quarters of the respondents are one- to five-person labs.
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Industry Fees Reflect Sluggish Economic Recovery
Maribeth Marsico · LMT Surveys · Oct 2012
The majority of respondents to LMT's 2012 Fee Survey are delaying fee increases in the face of price-cutting competition and declining caseloads.








