NicelyMKV
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With monolithic MADNESS!!! Muahahahahha
Also stay away form that small gathering of techs in the corner with plaster in the welts of their shoes. They are removable techs that just buy teeth and make gums for them. They will just become confused with words like monolithic and it will cause them to scurry back to their pressure pots half full on oily looking water.
This should pick up the number of Friday posts.
I sell NP/PFMs as low as $25 based on 20 units in the box and the customer sending directly to the lab in China. That price is based on volume only, not who is buying it be it lab or dentist.
We buy a lot of materials and technology and get it cheaper because of our volume and the part of the world its purchased in.
By government mandate we furnish medical/dental and a retirement plan and after the first of the year paid vacation to all our employees in China.
We have invested heavily in all the new technology that allows for faster production with less hand labor and we have not increased the price other than gold in 10 years. It amazing what can be done when the lab is run as a business.
My gross profit percentage per unit is probably lower than most that post here but my volume allows me to put a lot of dollars in the bank compared to my cost per unit.
The business of business is business.
Good for you!!!! I can post opposite story about our lab business strategy , but with the same result, we have big profits too. There are many ways to make a profit. But good business ethics not only about money, it is also about its employees.
"A business may be a multi-million seller, but does it use good business ethics and do people care? There are popular soft drinks and fast food restaurants that have been fined time and time again for unethical behavior. Business ethics should eliminate exploitation, from the sweat shop children who are making sneakers to the coffee serving staff who are being ripped off in wages. Business ethics can be applied to everything from the trees cut down to make the paper that a business sells to the ramifications of importing coffee from certain countries.
In the end, it may be up to the public to make sure that a company adheres to correct business ethics. If the company is making large amounts of money, they may not wish to pay too close attention to their ethical behavior. There are many companies that pride themselves in their correct business ethics, but in this competitive world, they are becoming very few and far between."
Our products made in USA. Who can say this out-laud this times?
Ed,
Tom just said that his employees get medical/dental, a retirement plan and in a couple months, paid vacation. While he didn't say it, I suspect they also receive the prevailing wage or better for the area they are in. What else is there that you would like him to do?
So he can't say his products are American made. So what, neither can a hell of a lot of other companies.
I dont know about you, but almost everything that goes into my crowns is imported. Are my crowns, American made, or just assembled in America?
Subrisi,I still don't get the whole full contour ZI thing. Every single one of my customers don't want to deal with them and they all say the same. "Why does it has to be sooo strong?" ( if something has to break, it better be the crown and not the tooth) and "It would take me 3 burrs to cut that s*** off if I have to." So why not keeping it in emax? I strongly believe that the monolithic Zi is pushed so hard just to utilize the milling machines. Those monsters are just too expensive to sit around. There had to be something invented to keep them running. But is this really in the interest of the patient? I do believe milling is something that will continue to grow as a part of industrializing our work and will never go away, but I think the material choice is something to be reviewed and to be improved.
Good for you!!!! I can post opposite story about our lab business strategy , but with the same result, we have big profits too. There are many ways to make a profit. But good business ethics not only about money, it is also about its employees.
"A business may be a multi-million seller, but does it use good business ethics and do people care? There are popular soft drinks and fast food restaurants that have been fined time and time again for unethical behavior. Business ethics should eliminate exploitation, from the sweat shop children who are making sneakers to the coffee serving staff who are being ripped off in wages. Business ethics can be applied to everything from the trees cut down to make the paper that a business sells to the ramifications of importing coffee from certain countries.
In the end, it may be up to the public to make sure that a company adheres to correct business ethics. If the company is making large amounts of money, they may not wish to pay too close attention to their ethical behavior. There are many companies that pride themselves in their correct business ethics, but in this competitive world, they are becoming very few and far between."
Our products made in USA. Who can say this out-laud this times?
If they can have multiple different shaded disks for Zircon, why haven't they made say a 14mm disk that is light or pure on top with a shaded bottom? This gradient would go a long way to help with that incisal transition. It must have something to do with how the disks is isso pressed??? Just wondering....
Hi Tom , I`m new to DLN and from the UK . Can i ask about the quality of these crowns and the rough average price of a NP PFM in the states .
i told you all the future was automated. i can prove to you it is now simply a matter of time. not only will ALL of you lose your jobs, ALL of your products will be homogenous. as indistinct as drawing a line in the sand over whose smartphone is actually better as no empirical scale will exist to measure it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/19/b...-robots-is-changing-global-industry.html?_r=1
a 4 page article outlining mankind's future with robots.