TEREC Mission
TEREC is a strategic alliance of North American full service regional dental laboratories which serves as a resource and council to promote the business success of its members.

This is accomplished by a high level of membership commitment and participation through:
Openly sharing technical, management, financial and marketing information among its members.
Building strong cooperative relationships with industry leaders.
Accessing, researching, developing and evaluating current and emerging technologies and processes.

Values are important to TEREC member laboratories. To live up to our mission of promoting the dental laboratory industry and ensuring the success of our TEREC members, our doctors and their patients, we have established a global set of values that define TEREC as a whole.

These values are defined as:


We work together as a TEAM.

We take INITIATIVE.

We are ORGANIZED, yet FLEXIBLE.

We show ACCOUNTABILITY.

We COMMUNICATE openly.

We set HIGHLY ETHICAL STANDARDS.

We seek PROFITABILITY.

We strive for GROWTH.



The TEREC Group has emerged from the thousands of individually owned dental laboratories and other groups that have formed over the years, not as a buying group, but a group of individual laboratories searching for the best ways to work with and help guide dentists and dental manufacturers in choosing products and developing techniques that will ensure the best possible results for our clients.

By consulting with those dentists and manufacturers and utilizing the strengths of each TEREC member, it enables us collectively to advise, test and help introduce new materials, products and techniques prior to their availability to the general dental industry.


FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Q: What do TEREC member laboratories have to offer that my current lab does not?
A: From a dentist’s perspective, working with a TEREC Member Laboratory brings many opportunities to my practice that I would not have been privy to possibly knowing about for many months, let alone having the opportunity to partake in the ground level participation and development of several products."
Dr. Tony Fischer

Q: Why do you feel a TEREC Laboratory is more up to date on new products and technology than other laboratories?
A: TEREC has worked with many new products, beta testing and providing technical
expertise to manufacturers, prior to their introduction to the general dental community.

The TEREC group of dental laboratories and their partners share the common goal of producing better dentistry. Our shared philosophy coupled with our individual expertise in clinical and laboratory materials and techniques will support every dentist in improving the quality of care for their patients.

The TEREC group works closely with companies such as 3M ESPE, Ivoclar Vivadent, Dentsply, Whip-Mix, Nobel Biocare, Captek, Heraeus Kulzer and Lee Culp, CDT of (Institute of Oral Art & Design) as well as other manufacturers, notable clinicians and researchers.

The TEREC group provides an excellent resource to any dental company looking for unique insights from professional laboratories, including technical expertise, market analysis, marketing/product launch, and beta testing.

If you have a dental product, technique or service that is ready for evaluation, we encourage you to contact the TEREC North America group of dental laboratories.