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Michael C. DiTolla, DDS, FAGD
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Editor’s Letter
The crowns & bridges produced at Glidewell Laboratories
are now made using essentially 100 percent CAD/CAM
technology, and I really notice the difference in the
restorations I get back from the lab. The crowns just fit, and
if I give them enough reduction, I can always get contours
like a natural tooth. Before we started using CAD/CAM, the
most frequent complaint we used to hear from dentists was
about our consistency, so this technology really has been a
game changer for our lab and our customers.
More than a decade ago, new customers would tell me that
they would get three great crowns from us and then two soso
crowns, then another great one, then one ugly one, and so
on. We were doing everything we could to fix those issues,
but the underlying problem went deeper than our lab: there
simply weren’t enough trained dental technicians available.
There are currently only 18 accredited dental laboratory
programs in the U.S. If that number seems shockingly low
to you, it’s because it is. That number is down 62 percent
since 1992 — a drastic decrease for that 20-year period. In
fact, today these programs currently produce only about 300
graduates annually for the entire U.S. To meet our demand,
we had to hire people off the street and train them ourselves.
But it takes time to develop as a technician, just as it does
as a dentist.
In 2007, Ivoclar Vivadent’s IPS e.max ® was introduced
into our lab, and with this first high-strength, monolithic
restoration came the day where a machine did most of
the work. Ideal contours were found in CAD libraries, and
dentists just had to give CAD technicians enough room to
drop them in. Then in 2009, Glidewell launched BruxZir ®
Solid Zirconia, signaling the next wave of the monolithic
revolution. A year later, nearly all of our PFM crowns were
produced using CAD/CAM as well.
Coordinator and Ad Representative
Thanks to our president and CEO’s unwavering commitment
Teri Arthur
to technology, we are able to give you, our dentists, the
(teri.arthur@glidewelldental.com)
consistency and predictability you’ve always wanted. Dentists
often tell me that a BruxZir crown fits better than any
If you have questions, comments or complaints regarding
this issue, we want to hear from you. Please e-mail us at
other crown they have prescribed. It’s a good time to be a
chairside@glidewelldental.com. Your comments may be
dentist, and it’s a great time to work with a lab that has fully
featured in an upcoming issue or on our website:
embraced the consistency of CAD/CAM dentistry.
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