Re: Labs and crowns

From: Alexander Vasserman DDS., BS. (purple543210_at_yahoo.ca)
Date: 07/14/04 

Date: 13 Jul 2004 18:00:35 -0700

"Krzysztof Polanowski"

I really do not have any desire to do lab work.
I'll pay the top dollar but I expect a corolation in the quality and service.

<sklep@valplast.pl> wrote in message news:<ccvtdd$f1i$1@nemesis.news.tpi.pl>...
> sometimes I am thinking so We could be buy ceramic furnace and to do last
> part of job ourselves.Its not big deal.There is more difficoult to restore
> teeth using composite in mouth.
> problem is time,time :))
> Uzytkownik "Mark & Steven Bornfeld DDS" <bornfeldmung@dentaltwins.com>
> napisal w wiadomosci news:2lg4lrFcg915U1@uni-berlin.de...
> > Mrsralph wrote:
> >
> > >>Certainly if I had patients who were willing to pay more, I'd be able to
> > >>consider using labs far more expensive than the ones I'm using now.
> > >
> > >
> > > Will a dentist ever send out work to a lab he/she doesn't normally use,
> if the
> > > patient is willing to pay extra to get better looking work?
> > > Thanks as always!
> >
> >
> > Well, you don't want to start with a lab on a cosmetically crucial
> > case. But if the dentist knows of a lab which is the best cosmetically
> > and he/she doesn't ordinarily use this lab because it's too
> expensive--sure.
> > I send all my work to a Brooklyn lab (AIM-- on McDonald Ave.). I don't
> > want to be in the position of finding a cheapo lab for my insurance
> > patients--it could save a few bucks, but it would cost me more in agita.
> > By the same token, I can't pay $150 to a lab for a crown if I'm only
> > getting maybe $400. from my UFT patients.
> >
> > Steve

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