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Lab talk, the good, the bad, and the ugly
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<blockquote data-quote="CWilliams" data-source="post: 347871" data-attributes="member: 22723"><p>So.. I was a curious little bee and decided to see what the expectations were for the remote designers and applied. Mainly I was curious about the product produced, the allure of the whole idea and if it's actually effective. It's great if you have no standard for yourself or this industry, and are extremely green on both doctor and tech sides.</p><p></p><p>Designers are assigned to a region of the mouth, posteriors or anteriors, and then subdivided into only designing single units or multiple units (up to 25-30 units a day for everyone... which is a snooze fest). I was told doctor scans are never rejected for any reason and they rate scans as a TOM 0- 5. Tom= tissue over margin, TOM 0 being clear TOM 5 being fubar. You are to alter said scan (even if a TOM 5) and make a margin, design your crown and send it off. The funny thing is, you have a supervisor who can change your final design before sending it to mill and if your crown doesn't fit or doctor rejects it (even if the margin was a TOM 5),you get dinged and after so many dings you get a 'talking' to, which they call continuing education- listen guys, I don't need to attend a hogwarts class to read invisible margins, I'd rather avada kedavra myself at this point in my career. </p><p></p><p>They boasted themselves on quality but yet don't expect quality from their doctors. Seems like the place to go if you don't want to be held accountable for your work. For doctors who do care about your work, you will always be flipping a coin for your final product- you're better off buying your own scanner and forming/ building a relationship with a lab so you can gain consistency, true quality and longevity. Nice things aren't free. Us labs invest in our business to improve and stay with the industry and doctors that we want to work with, do the same. </p><p></p><p>You also cant control where and how your product is processed either. You could have a great design but then have it be botched on the back end. It's a Glidewell that hasn't worked out its kinks. Glidewell would certainly blow them out of the water, if they formed a contract with 3shape and started shelling out scanners. At least Glidewell, has some standard of quality. </p><p></p><p>I'm not surprised with it coming from non dental business guys, I've actually heard of them from attending Penn. So lurk away. I'm not saying they're not smart or capable but it's lacking the full scope of the process and therefore will always fall short, especially for those wanting quality. It goes back to the triangle of cost-time-quality.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CWilliams, post: 347871, member: 22723"] So.. I was a curious little bee and decided to see what the expectations were for the remote designers and applied. Mainly I was curious about the product produced, the allure of the whole idea and if it's actually effective. It's great if you have no standard for yourself or this industry, and are extremely green on both doctor and tech sides. Designers are assigned to a region of the mouth, posteriors or anteriors, and then subdivided into only designing single units or multiple units (up to 25-30 units a day for everyone... which is a snooze fest). I was told doctor scans are never rejected for any reason and they rate scans as a TOM 0- 5. Tom= tissue over margin, TOM 0 being clear TOM 5 being fubar. You are to alter said scan (even if a TOM 5) and make a margin, design your crown and send it off. The funny thing is, you have a supervisor who can change your final design before sending it to mill and if your crown doesn't fit or doctor rejects it (even if the margin was a TOM 5),you get dinged and after so many dings you get a 'talking' to, which they call continuing education- listen guys, I don't need to attend a hogwarts class to read invisible margins, I'd rather avada kedavra myself at this point in my career. They boasted themselves on quality but yet don't expect quality from their doctors. Seems like the place to go if you don't want to be held accountable for your work. For doctors who do care about your work, you will always be flipping a coin for your final product- you're better off buying your own scanner and forming/ building a relationship with a lab so you can gain consistency, true quality and longevity. Nice things aren't free. Us labs invest in our business to improve and stay with the industry and doctors that we want to work with, do the same. You also cant control where and how your product is processed either. You could have a great design but then have it be botched on the back end. It's a Glidewell that hasn't worked out its kinks. Glidewell would certainly blow them out of the water, if they formed a contract with 3shape and started shelling out scanners. At least Glidewell, has some standard of quality. I'm not surprised with it coming from non dental business guys, I've actually heard of them from attending Penn. So lurk away. I'm not saying they're not smart or capable but it's lacking the full scope of the process and therefore will always fall short, especially for those wanting quality. It goes back to the triangle of cost-time-quality. [/QUOTE]
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