about

Lafayette Dental Lab is a premium quality ceramic crown and bridge lab with a 30+ year history in the Phoenix area. Our excellent reputation has come from our focus on quality smile design and full-reconstruction cases, as well as cosmetic dentistry and custom shades.

 

Rick Durkee started the laboratory in 1980 with the help of Dr. James R. McDonald and Mr. Steve Severy to serve as members of the Society for Occlusal Studies doing complicated reconstruction cases. Rick purchased the lab from his partners and over the next 15 years the lab expanded to its current 12 employees and a new facility on Tatum Blvd in Phoenix.  In 2017 Rick sold the lab to long time employee Sean Marchal.

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Lafayette Dental lab has always focused on occlusion and aesthetics and using the latest equipment to help us achieve those goals. The lab utilizes the latest ceramic systems like Emax, High Strength Zirconia, High Translucent Zirconia, and Feldspathic porcelain on refractory. Only the finest materials are used in the construction of our restorations like porcelains from Austria, Germany and Japan, both high and low fusing types.