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High tech for a dental lab doesn’t have to mean CAD/CAM, and more importantly it doesn’t have to come with a wallet-draining pricetag. Plenty of the cutting edge technologies ready to help you manage the business and make work at the bench more efficient can be accessed for free.

The Lab Anderson Dental Studio is a 10 man lab located in Edina, Minn. It was started by Ken Anderson more than 50 years ago and its legacy has been preserved through his children who have continued to operate the lab with the same quality and ethical standards that their father had set many years ago. Being a small family business, owner Al Anderson respects and tries to patronize businesses such as his own. This is one of the several reasons he was so happy when he was introduced to IBEX Dental Technologies at the Chicago Midwinter Meeting in February 2011.

File sharing via Dropbox A cloud service that works equally well on computers and the mobile apps for the major smartphone platforms, Dropbox allows users to store files in online folders that can be shared to create a cloud-based portal between two Dropbox users. Video calls via Skype

Combining 5-axis wet/dry milling with the wet-grinding technique, Amann Girrbach’s Ceramill Motion 2 can be used as a purely dry or wet system or in combination mode. In combination mode, the lab technician can easily change between wet and dry modes by exchanging the blank holder depending upon the indications for each case.

The world of prosthetic oral appliances has been totally transformed since the first acrylic denture base was invented by Heraeus’ forerunner about half-a-century ago. Today advanced surgical techniques and the latest materials, such as Heraeus’ Mondial i denture teeth, can rapidly restore a patient’s oral function and confidence. About the teeth

To match an anterior tooth for a custom shade is the most difficult of procedures, as every technician knows. One problem is there are so many factors that relate to the final outcome, including: 1) Adjacent teeth color is often a big problem. If they are opacious in color, that is easier to mimic in our restorations than translucency or transparency; 2) The height of contour of the teeth, lobe and the type of surface texture all relate to the final color, as well.

The Lab Founded in 1976, PRO-DENT Laboratory Ltd. is a full service dental lab located in Halifax, Nova Scotia. With 45 people working in 7 departments, the lab strives to provide high quality restorations with customer service to match.  The product

Dental companies are starting to take advantage of the ways they can engage their customers and provide information and tools via iPhone and iPad apps. Here are some of the free options currently available in the Apple App Store: coDiagnostiX™ This implant treatment planning software from Straumann comes to the iPad in a robust app version that provides a great interface for viewing and sharing case images. ToothScout HD

The Lab IDOC Dental Lab is a full-service dental lab with 40 employees. It opened in Garden Grove, Calif. 12 years ago and specializes in smile design cases, implants and overdentures. Joey Hamernik is IDOC Dental Lab’s Vice President. The Product

The American Dental Association’s (ADA) Give Kids A Smile® program, Henry Schein, Inc., 3M ESPE Dental and NASCAR star Greg Biffle teamed up to deliver miles of smiles Friday at Richmond International Raceway.   &n

Virginia Commonwealth University Dental School outreach director tells Thais Carter that events like this weekend's Give Kids A Smile NASCAR event in Richmond prepare dental and hygiene students for under-served children that are right there in their community. Watch the full video interview below.

A picture is worth 1,000 words. Let these images to the left help you get a deeper sense of the amazing work the volunteers and manufacturer product donations made possible.   Want to see more coverage? Click here for video with Dr. Robert Faiella, President-Elect for the American Dental Association.

Bobby Anderson, Regional Manager for Henry Schein Dental, knows that the relationship a sales rep has with a dental practice has to go beyond filling out an order form. Events such as this Give Kids a Smile event help remind reps what their job is really about.  

Dr. Robert A. Faiella, President-Elect for the American Dental Association, provides his take on why community outreach matters, even for dentists who feel the need to be more focused on internal matters. For the full interview, see below.

This SoundCloud playlist features audio throughout our race-day coverage, including clips with the kids, a piece on patient education and the volunteer response to NASCAR diver Greg Biffle's arrival.  

When it comes to events like this, it is products that make it possible.

In addition to other live video interviews coming straight from the Richmond International Speedway, Thais Carter interviewed the Richmond Tooth Fairy earlier today about ways to prevent dental anxiety and fear in children and how to create excitement about good oral hygiene habits.

Give Kids A Smile, an annual one-day volunteer initiative to provide preventive and restorative services to children from low-income families.  

Dental Products Report, the No. 1 product magazine in the dental industry, is continuing to expand its coverage of industry events. The editorial team’s efforts to draw attention to not only good products, but products in the service of good, takes them to Richmond, Virginia on Friday, April 27 for a special 10th anniversary of the Give Kids a Smile program.

No one wants to be involved in a dispute that disrupts the normal flow of business to the dental practice. Disputes harm dentists financially and emotionally and cause turmoil within the practice among employees, owners and patients.

In today's world of candy and sugary soft drinks children aged five and under are in special need of dental care and oral health education.

Achaeological geneticist Christina Warinner is a researcher at the University of Zurich and has discovered a thrilling new tool that will shed light on the history of diseases dating back to ancient hominids. That new tool is fossilized dental plaque.

No one likes the look of wrinkles or sagging skin especially when they mar the look of a smile that has been newly improved by teeth whitening, veneers, implants or other dental procedures.

While high tech options continue to evolve and offer us ways to simplify our personal lives, transferring those same advantages into the dental office just makes sense.

The right furniture for your dental laboratory is essential. It requires a big investment on the part of the lab owner or manager, but it can pay off big in terms of improved workflows and efficiency, opportunity for additional growth, and even in happier and healthier employees. That’s why it is important to allow plenty of planning and research before making such significant lab furniture investments.

Featured on Dental Products Report’s March cover, Store-A-Tooth is Provia Laboratories’ primary product offering. The simplest way to explain the product is that it gives families a second chance.

Dentrix G5 includes a number of new features, none bigger than the one that makes it an “open platform” that encourages software developers (including the three highlighted below) to write applications for the practice management system to share data with the new Dentrix database.

Laser sintering system manufacturer Phenix Systems today issued a formal statement in response to the recent announcement that laser sintering rival EOS was filing a patent infringement lawsuit against the French company that recently began selling its products in the United States.

Dr. Stephen Gordon was never that interested in doing root canals. He’s always been fascinated by the latest and greatest in technology, and root canals didn’t really fit. But that all changed two years ago at the Chicago Dental Society Midwinter Meeting. He sat in on Dr.

Tips that all dental practices should use to set clear financial arrangements and expectations for their dental patients.