Choosing the most suitable material for a smile restoration is crucial to success in dentistry. Learn the three primary characteristics necessary for dental veneers.
Proper communication between the dentist and the dental lab is crucial to fabricating clinically acceptable dental restorations. These restorations must meet the clinical expectations of the dentist and the esthetic
Implant rehabilitation can dramatically improve a patient's quality of life. One of the main advantages is that an implant will provide normal oral processes like proper mastication.
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The accuracy of the temporary restorations is an important factor in ensuring the patient has a positive experience with the entire restorative procedure.
Patient satisfaction is key to ensuring a dental practice is thriving. Review sites and personal referrals are still the number one channels for patients looking for dental services.
Historically, referrals from family and friends have been vital sources for attracting new patients. In addition, social proof has become a significant source for attracting new patients through expanded online marketing channels.
Patient satisfaction is crucial to the overall customer experience and directly related to a practice’s growth and patient retention.
Patients who have a great experience will be more loyal and share their experiences. Dental practices that focus on the patient experience can create lifelong patients that become vocal raving fans.
Touchpoints
A dental practice must rely heavily on its dental laboratory for many touchpoints with its patients. Some of the main factors that influence whether a patient feels satisfied with their experience during a restorative procedure are as follows:
Understanding the patient’s desired outcomes with their dental restorations.
Addressing their primary dental issues
Anticipating and communicating any potential case limitations.
Delivering their restorations on time.
Patient satisfaction is directly correlated with clinical outcomes. Dental labs play a significant role in helping clinicians ensure successful clinical outcomes. Burbank Dental Lab has built its reputation on supporting dentists through providing:
Leading-edge technology
Highly trained dental technicians
Advanced systems to ensure efficiency
An extensive research and development department
An advanced continuing education facility
Online educational content and case studies
Lab and Practice Synergy
Burbank Dental Lab understands the synergy between a dental lab and a dentist to ensure patient satisfaction. Patients who have gone through a flawless dental experience where their desired results were achieved or better yet exceeded become the best marketing tools a dental practice can have.
Providing an exceptional restorative experience is another area where patient satisfaction can be met and even exceeded. This is why Burbank Dental Lab created the Smiles By Design team. Through the Smiles By Design process, cases are handled step-by-step, ensuring the patients’ goals and the dentist’s directions are captured, communicated, understood, and implemented. This provides a predictable end result.
The Smiles By Design team at Burbank Dental Lab is trained in advanced ceramics and has completed hundreds of hours of advanced training from the Spear Institute, Las Vegas Institute, and many over-the-shoulder programs alongside dentists. This investment in Burbank Dental Lab’s technical staff equates to excellence in occlusal principles, case design, and ceramics.
The Smiles By Design method will include the following:
Evaluate preop models
Review photos
Analyze functional considerations
Review patient goals and overall case concerns
Design a diagnostic wax-up to determine the possibilities, incorporate the patient goals and determine any limitations to achieving the desired results.
Once the plan has been worked out and the patient understands and approves the treatment, the following is required:
Final approval of wax-up
Preparation guides
Bite registration, including a facebow (Kois Dento Facial Analyzer)
Impressions
Temporization
Final Temporary approval
Photos taken with the temporaries
Material selection is finalized
Fabrication of final restorations by a Smiles By Design® technician
Quality control to ensure all aspects of the plan were followed. Margin integrity is checked as well as fit, shape, and color.
The Smiles By Design team is available to work through your restorative cases, determine potential issues, provide feedback, and create solutions to help reach the patient’s goals. The whole focus of the team is to ensure the patient’s needs are met and even exceeded.
Digital Workflows
Patient satisfaction is also linked to advanced technologies
within a dental practice. Digital workflows provide faster and more comfortable experiences for patients. Intraoral scanners, for example, can increase accuracy and provide a tool for patient education as the images can be shared with the patient and discussed in real-time.
In contrast, traditional impression methods need to be sent to the dental lab to be processed (see above image). If there are any issues, the patient will need to return for new impressions. Most patients, when asked, prefer digital impressions over the traditional methods.
Intraoral scanners provide impressions that can be instantly shared with the laboratory and evaluated while the patient is in the office.
In addition, the Burbank Dental Lab digital team is available to review scans and advise on preparation design and determine the accuracy of the impression before dismissing the patient. The benefits of intraoral scanners:
Digital scanners offer a much more comfortable way to take an impression free from gagging.
Restorations are more accurate, decreasing time spent on cementation.
Scanning impressions is faster than traditional impression methods
Patients like advanced technology.
Elimination of impression materials means less spent on overhead over time.
There is no question that to be truly competitive today, businesses must create exceptional customer experiences. Dental practices that provide this level of patient satisfaction make patients who are true fans.
Burbank Dental Lab understands the importance of supporting dentists so that their practices continue to thrive. Call or chat with a Smiles By Design team member to help you plan your next large restorative case.
Imetric Digital Scan In-Office Service Burbank Dental Lab, at its core, has focused on being an indispensable partner to our clients. In keeping with our core values, we are heavily
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Burbank Dental Lab is offering Original Straumann Custom Abutments, milled at Burbank. Straumann implants have recently made available an FDA approved workflow that enables Burbank Dental Lab to fabricate milled
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Burbank Dental Lab custom sports guards are individually made to your prescription and are designed to meet the needs of the specific sport and level of competition of your patient.
Burbank Dental Lab Night guards and occlusal guards can bring relief to patients that are experiencing discomfort due to bruxing and grinding. Our night guards are carefully designed to protect your patient's teeth and restorations and are custom made to your prescribed bite and VDO.
BiteSoft® splints prevent teeth from grinding and clenching during the night. This innovative, successful solution to bruxism offers patients the opportunity to sleep peacefully throughout the night, without damage to their teeth or restorations.
The TAP 3 is a two-piece mandibular advancement device for the treatment of snoring and sleep apnea. It permits a wide range of precise degree adjustment to ensure maximum comfort and effectiveness.
Burbank Dental Lab has three new state-of-the-art Carbon M2 printers. We are very excited about the options that these cutting-edge printers will allow us to offer our dental clients. Here are some of the advantages that these printers will begin to deliver to you and your dental practice.
Our New State-Of-The-Art 3d Printers
Carbon offers a highly dependable 3D manufacturing solution for many dental applications with its breakthrough Digital Light Synthesis™ technology, enabled by a wide range of dental materials.
Fabrication of the future is here!
Burbank Dental Lab has three new state-of-the-art Carbon M2 printers. We are very excited about the options that these cutting-edge printers will allow us to offer our dental clients. Here are some of the advantages that these printers will begin to deliver to you and your dental practice.
Our New State-Of-The-Art 3d Printers
Carbon offers a highly dependable 3D manufacturing solution for many dental applications with its breakthrough Digital Light Synthesis™ technology, enabled by a wide range of dental materials.
What Our Clients Say
“I appreciate the quality and efficiency of this lab. I especially like the turn around times for their crowns (about 5 days). Thank you for your work and I highly...
“Burbank Dental Lab’s Smile Design Group helped to transform my patient’s smile with their exceptional attention to detail and overall quality of the emax crowns. The case was a success,...
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“Delivery time was excellent! The fit of the screw retained implant crown including emergence profile, contacts, seating, and occlusion were perfect. Didn’t do anything but seat it and torque the...
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“We were looking for a lab that could accept our digital scans and produce high-quality centric-relation nightguards for patients. Burbank Dental Lab was recommended by a dental school classmate. We...
Burbank Dental Lab has far exceeded all of my expectations, and has fully delivered top tier prosthodontic work. What sets this lab apart from others is the constant communication. When...
“This lab provides restorative dentists with excellent technical support and high-quality lab work at reasonable fees. Their restorations are consistently excellent both from a functional and esthetic standpoint.”
“High quality dental lab with years of experience. Very professional service and results are second to none. Whether its cosmetic work, implant work, or digital, Burbank has their act together....
“In 25 years practicing dentistry I have not delivered a better full mouth rehabilitation crowns and bridge case like the one I did today. Aesthetics, fitting, contact, and occlusion was...
“I have been using Burbank for a while now. They are the only lab I’ve worked with who delivers consistently superior results. Their esthetic and implant work is second to...
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Hi Tony, hope you’re well. I’ve sent you a before and after case of a #8 old PFM replacement – single tooth next to natural #9. (Click for photo). Also...
“Just wanted to let you all know that I retired a few years ago but I sincerely appreciated both the help and especially the great quality of the work you...
“The implant department at Burbank is amazing! They have delivered casework that has exceeded my expectations and our patients are thrilled! We switched from a local lab to Burbank; our...
“We’ve been using this lab for a few years now and we are very happy. Excellent customer service, very kind billing staff and work is always well done. Every time...
“Burbank Dental Lab has provided us with many years of high-quality work, timely service and friendly staff. Our thanks, from all of us at Westlake Dental Associates.”
“Fantastic case! I just dropped these two implant abutment/crowns in and they were perfect! Thank you!” MARGINS: Excellent CONTACTS: Excellent CONTOUR: Excellent OCCLUSION: Excellent FIT: Excellent SHADE: Excellent ESTHETICS: Excellent...
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“What an amazing lab to work with. Each person I have encountered has been amazing. From Joel and Kenny to Laura in Accounting to Tony himself. The crowns go in...
“We have used this lab for 18 months. They have proven to be very patient and customer-centric. They produce some really nice work and are easy to work with. Cases...
“Vincent and Karen are the best! I worked with Vincent on a full mouth rehab case. Everything turned out great and the patient is very happy. Working with Vincent made...
“They were great to work with and went out of their way to make sure we received our lab case the very same day. Holly even volunteered to come personally...
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“I absolutely love this lab, very quick, beautiful work, and very professional. Marissa is so much help, and has answers every single time! Wouldn’t use anyone else!”
“For more than 5 years I have sent my removable lab work to Burbank Dental Laboratory. I delivered a new FUD and new mandibular distal extension RPD with a locator...
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“This was the first crown I inserted since we talked about the contacts being tight. This crown was PERFECT!!! Absolutely no adjustments were needed! This was one of those “throw...
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Thank you Joel for an excellent job. What I really love about Joel and Vincent from Burbank Lab is that 1. They listen to the instructions and follow them. 2....
“Thank you Joel for an excellent job. What I really love about Joel and Vincent from Burbank Lab is that: 1. They listen to the instructions and follow them. 2....
“Just completed a maxillary Prettau Zirconium bridge on 5 implants and am very pleased with the service, the attention to detail, and the communication skills of this lab, in particular...
This dental lab is world renowned for high quality of their crown and bridgework. I especially appreciate their expertise in implant castings. I happen to work with a couple of...