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Hello: Jesus have I been ia a cave. 35+ years making dentures, probably terrible at it! but turn new customers down weekly, have too much work already. Processing a case from a processed baseplate means troble! the base warps when reprocessed! Fit goes away and a reline becomes necessary. Make a...

Always great so read your post! Question? A one person lab doing ok, but can a small guy move forward when equipment cost so much! A laser welder 24,000$ Milling machine for bar 100,000$ flexable rpd's all included 7,000$ I know I bucked you about 3-D printers awhile back-but now they are...

Saaturday and just shut the lights out after a 9hr day LOL. If I didn't love this job I would quit today and bag groceries and make more at a 40hr week! RAISE PRICES! right and Large labs and outsourcing would kill me instantly. I get daily e-mails from China to outsource/ dentures turned...

To expensive to open a lab today, for the return on the money spent. I bet start up fee's today would be about 200,000$

Why would anyone? I am also 57 and yes of a dying breed of denture technicians. Soon technician will no longer be needed rather computer programers! 3-D printers and milling machine make us unecesary.

No Pour type denture here! I have used it and not truely a time savings. A popoff cost time and travel to pick-up, repair and deliver!!!!!!! How much did you save or are you lucky and get to charge 55$ for a repair? Hight end teeth I roughen with an arbor band before setting and after boil-out...

For hard only nightguards I use Hygenic's clear heat cure and come out so clear sometimes hard to find one if I drop it! :-) Simple process nothing special, throw it in with my dentures to cure for 8hrs and done!

Ok missing something here? Hard /soft nightguards. I use proform dual Laminates, hard on the outside soft on the inside and very thin. You can add to it via clear acrlic and it bonds excellent, to build up the occlusal table so all teeth are in contact. Counting coffee time about 15 minutes...

33 years in and if ever a weekend is approaching and I am slow on work, I hook the camper to the truck and stock it up for the weekend ahead! YES! And sleep in it in the driveway so I can start in early Saturday Morning! The camper is now 6 years old and has yet to leave the drive way-maybe...

Been doing dentures for 31 years, Have had 4 advance denture courses with the USAF, 2 with Dentsply for natural esthetics and function course, worked one one with a Prostidontic. and have used everything from Swissdent porc to New Hue plastic teeth and in the end MOST patients prefer New Hue...

I do not touch Valplast for repairs-I will add teeth by using braided wire heated and embeded into the valplast and attach tooth to the wire and it works great. If the Dr's wants a new one I have several labs I recommend to them. I have enough headaches in a day, why add Valplast to it!

Having my first Martini! :-) Some of my customers are 65 miles away, so popoffs are a real cost buster! I boil-off and wash with good with soap. After they cool I put seperator on the molds and then paint each ridge lap with mononer 3 times before packing them, pain in the a$$ but stops the...

Hello: I think I might try shooting Valpalst as an addition to my product line.However, it all depends on you Lab Teck! If I get enough go for it votes I am there, if most say NO WAY! I plan on saving my 4800$ ( Guess I could sell my Entra to pay for it, a big paper weight for me, LOL -)

I only have one question/comment here! WHY!?? Dear God why did you put this curse on my? Why could you not let me be good at computer repair?????????????? :-)

Never kept an accurate record of remakes, my mistake as a small lab! I do know if I see;Hazel Stoltzfus name twice in a month-must be a remake and the Dr get a personal visit! What was wrong with #1? return it and I will gladly remake #2 free of charge. No Return no new denture! Even K-Mart asks...

Seems your all into ortho stuff-ever heard of or made a NTI appliance?

OUCH! Wax solvent? @ 22$ a gallon? WHY? denture are not highly profitable to begin with and add more cost on top for processing? Not here. Tide detergent with borax as stated above, cost about 3cents worth and a nice clean mold and tooth surface, and the lab will smell great like a laundry mat...

Not sure about Ivocap method. I still use the old tried and true press packed method. However, some steps must be the same: A clean water boil-off, wash mold with brush and soap! There are only two that work best-Palmolive or tide which are detergents not soap. wash/rinse/wash again and rinse...

I'M Back! I always use the master model for everything it is and will remain the most accurate! A duplicate is that a dupilcate that is "almost" like the orginal! Take a micometer to the master and your dup and you will measure differences regardless. Second: ProForm Duals--if done according...

bck sorry~~~~~~~~~~~ Time is a factor in dentures! A crown not so--temp and gone. A denture is ,"ALL MY TEETH" I need immedate attention! Someone mentioned glasses and the change: Apple and oranges: I lost my glasses-"that will be 6 weeks" Tough ****! Dentists are not so willing to tell a...