Practical advice for dental lab owners and technicians running modern labs. No fluff, no jargon — just what works.
Most lab software sorts cases by the appointment. The day that matters in the lab is the day the case leaves. What changes when the board does the calendar math itself — weekends, holidays and each office's lead time included.
AutomationStop clicking through the iTero portal every morning. Here's what automating the iTero-to-3Shape handoff gives a lab back: 30+ minutes a day of clicking and re-typing.
Lab ManagementIf you run a 1-5 tech lab, the "full-featured" enterprise LMS is actively hurting you. Here's what 15 years of watching small labs struggle with DLMS and LabStar taught us — and what to use instead.
Lab OperationsYour whiteboard feels free. It's not. Once you add up lost cases, re-typed data, phone calls about status, and the mental load of tracking it all, a typical one-tech lab is losing $1,800 a month to a $20 piece of melamine.