How to open a dental laboratory

A dental laboratory is an integral part of a modern dental clinic. This is an indicator of her prestige, high status. Opening your own laboratory is a long and very laborious process.

Instruction manual

1

To get started, carefully study the necessary requirements for sanitary conditions. Based on these standards, choose a suitable room. Main conditions: all materials used for interior decoration from the inside should be from among those allowed by the ministry; the walls of the laboratory should not have cracks; the laboratory should be equipped with a centralized ventilation system (this is one of the main problems when equipping a room); All rooms should have natural light.

2

Equip the laboratory with everything you need: micromotors, wax burners, casting plants, muffle furnaces and cermets, grinders, metals and alloys for making prostheses - these are a small part of the necessary tools and equipment that a modern laboratory must have in order to make dentures and cermet crowns on gold or zirconium oxide. Do not save on the quality of equipment, because your income will directly depend on it.

3

Pick up staff. At least two professional dental technicians and one orthopedic dentist must work in the laboratory. To carry out the control functions, a senior dental technician is also appointed, as well as the head of the laboratory. The reputation of the entire institution will depend on the discipline and professionalism of employees, which means that it is necessary to approach the selection of personnel with particular care.

4

Obtain a license to make dentures. To do this, contact the SES.

5

Starting work, determine the clientele. If the laboratory does not have its own dental office and does not receive patients, arrange with the city dental clinics on the manufacture and delivery of dentures and proceed with the execution of orders.