Thank you for taking the time to learn about Premium Dental Laboratory. Premium is a full service dental lab based in Chicago Illinois founded by Mark Val in 1979. From one man in the back of a dental office to fifty people today one thing that has not changed is a dentist’s need for predictable and beautiful restorations from our lab. What has changed dramatically is how those restorations are fabricated and what they are made of. In the beginning a technician waxed and cast then put porcelain on the PFM and sent it doctor. Today we have products and techniques that can make a restoration look more like a natural tooth than ever before. Unfortunately these are not magic and there are many techniques to learn and master to use these products to their fullest potential. Swedging a Captek, designing a CAD-CAM substructure such as a Lava or Cercon, or pressing E-MAX are all very different from PFMs.

      Even with all the products and techniques available we at Premium strive to give that “My technician” feel. The way we accomplish this is by teaming a doctor with a ceramist and if it is a PFM one metal technician. If it is another substructure it is insourced to another technician who specializes that product and then back to the doctor’s ceramist. This smal lab consistency and big lab product line allow the dentist to choose the best restoration for each patient confident it was made right.