Dental Lab Articles for Dentists

Practical guides from our Brooklyn lab on crowns and materials, implants, scanners, dentures and appliances, plus our own research on US dental labs.

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Vintage dental office with an old treatment chair
The American Dental Lab, Then and Now: From Back Rooms to Digital Workflows

Part 5 of our Then and Now series: how the US dental lab business changed, from 1,800 commercial labs in...

Upper and lower complete dentures held in occlusion
Dentures in America, Then and Now: From Hippopotamus Ivory to Digital Dentures

Part 4 of our Then and Now series: George Washington's dentures, porcelain teeth, vulcanite, acrylic, the McGill consensus on implant...

PFM crowns and a metal coping on a stone model
Then and Now: How Crowns Went From Hammered Gold to Zirconia

Part 3 of our Then and Now series: how crowns were made from the 1873 gold crown patent to PFM,...

Lab team member on the phone in the dental laboratory
Dental Insurance Then and Now: From a 1954 Union Plan to the $1,500 Maximum

Part 2 of our Then and Now series: how dental insurance began, why Medicare left dental out, how the $1,000...

Vintage black-and-white photo of a dentist with a patient
Dental Prices Then and Now: Why Dentistry Costs 15 Times More Than in 1970

What dental care cost, who paid for it and how insurance kept up (or did not) from the 1950s to...