Requesting the fee guide.
Pricing is competitive across the range and is sent on request. Call the laboratory or write, and the current list for your practice follows.
How to request it
Call the laboratory during business hours, or send a request through the contact page with your practice name and a reachable number.
It helps to say roughly what your case mix looks like — predominantly crown and bridge, a meaningful volume of removable work, implant restorative, appliances — so the information is relevant rather than exhaustive.
New practices are usually better served by a conversation first. It takes a few minutes and it establishes considerably more than a price list does.
What actually affects the cost of a case
Material is the largest single factor, and precious metal content in particular moves with the metals market rather than staying fixed. A high noble alloy restoration is priced differently from a non-precious one, and that difference is not stable over time.
Complexity is the next: the number of units, whether a case is layered or monolithic, whether a framework requires verification, and whether intermediate stages such as try-ins are involved.
Custom components on implant cases, and any stage that requires the case to travel an additional time, both add to it.
Discuss alloy cost before the case starts
This is the one worth raising with the patient in advance rather than at the fee estimate. Precious metal prices move, and a patient who has chosen a high noble alloy knowingly is in a very different position from one presented with an unexpected figure at delivery.
Alloy options for both full metal and ceramic work are set out on alloy selection.
Price against total cost
Unit price is the easiest thing to compare and the least informative. The figure that matters to a practice is total cost per successfully seated restoration, which includes remakes, adjustment time, unscheduled appointments and the occasional patient who loses confidence.
A laboratory that is meaningfully cheaper per unit and produces even a modest additional rate of remakes is more expensive in practice, because chair time costs considerably more than the difference in fee.
That is not an argument that expensive is better — there is no reliable correlation. It is an argument for comparing on the full cost.
Talking to patients about cost
Where a case involves a material choice with a meaningful price difference — high noble alloy in particular — that conversation belongs before treatment starts rather than at the fee estimate.
A patient who has chosen a more expensive option knowingly is in a different position from one presented with an unexpected figure at delivery, and the difference is entirely in when they were told.
The same applies to staged treatment. A case involving a try-in appointment or a provisional phase has more visits than the patient may be expecting, and saying so at the outset avoids it reading as an extension.
Keeping it current
Ask for an updated list periodically rather than working from one that has been in a drawer. Material costs change and product ranges evolve.
If a particular category is a significant part of your work, it is worth discussing that specifically rather than relying on a general list.
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