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<blockquote data-quote="cdr50" data-source="post: 31616" data-attributes="member: 669"><p>It has been my experience that every material that goes into a product has a reason that it is in the product instead of a similar, usually less expensive, material.</p><p>That is unless a company no longer understands the reason that said material was in the product in the first place.</p><p>Case in point here is Lucitone 199 and their introduction just a few years ago of a “New, More Natural Looking Fiber”. It is purely conjecture on my part but guessing how expensive the original fiber was in that product they could have been looking for a way to manufacture the product and cut costs. They soon found out how important fiber is in the shading (coloring) of their Lucitone 199. Prehaps even more important is how choosing the correct fiber to incorporate into the Lucitone 199 base polymer without loosing impact strength was pretty important as well. Taking a quote from their website “Lucitone 199 is the premium denture acrylic in the industry. Unsurpassed strength and customer preferred shading confirm Lucitone 199 as simply the best - the industry gold standard”.</p><p></p><p>From the reports and complaints I heard around the industry at that time about Lucitone 199 someone at that company must have decided they had to go back to what must have been called the “Old, Less Natural Looking Fiber” to try and get that product back on track.</p><p></p><p>So is anyone left in the denture acrylics division that really understands what is going on and why?</p><p></p><p>I think that is a legitimate question.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cdr50, post: 31616, member: 669"] It has been my experience that every material that goes into a product has a reason that it is in the product instead of a similar, usually less expensive, material. That is unless a company no longer understands the reason that said material was in the product in the first place. Case in point here is Lucitone 199 and their introduction just a few years ago of a “New, More Natural Looking Fiber”. It is purely conjecture on my part but guessing how expensive the original fiber was in that product they could have been looking for a way to manufacture the product and cut costs. They soon found out how important fiber is in the shading (coloring) of their Lucitone 199. Prehaps even more important is how choosing the correct fiber to incorporate into the Lucitone 199 base polymer without loosing impact strength was pretty important as well. Taking a quote from their website “Lucitone 199 is the premium denture acrylic in the industry. Unsurpassed strength and customer preferred shading confirm Lucitone 199 as simply the best - the industry gold standard”. From the reports and complaints I heard around the industry at that time about Lucitone 199 someone at that company must have decided they had to go back to what must have been called the “Old, Less Natural Looking Fiber” to try and get that product back on track. So is anyone left in the denture acrylics division that really understands what is going on and why? I think that is a legitimate question. [/QUOTE]
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