I know I sound like a broken record, but we've had our Roland DWX-50 for 10 months now. Sure, there was a learning curve and had minor issues here and there. We kept moving forward, the first day we stopped all hand waxing and found out quickly we didn't like the pucks (too much resin-shrinkage). We changed pucks and have been off to the races since. We then started getting hot and heavy into doing PMMA temps...now instead of just doing a large diagnostic wax-up, we have pretty much all of our docs on board with us making these cad/cam temps at the same time we do the white wax-ups (doubled our growth in this area). We still outsource our zirconia but that's only because we do so much of it and get a great deal from our milling company on them. This past year has been a game changer for us because of the milling capacity. For instance I walked into the lab on New Years day and took a look around, there was only 10 pans in the lab. Some folks would be tripping, I wasn't, last year at that time I had over 500 pans filled with cases and had an appointment book...booked out 4 months in some cases. The milling has quadrupled our output so much so, that I now I get to focus on my personal life, I actually don't feel guilty for staying up with the old lady watching a movie...or was that making a movie together...HA!!! So call it a plastic box, I don't care, that plastic box gave me back my freedom to do so much more, and that's that in a nut shell. Friday another 50 cases came in...and if I know my team, they'll all be out by Wednesday, as that cad/cam Al states, cad/cam doesn't replace us, it gives us more time to focus on what we do best!!!
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