Conversation, not coordination
Your case is one of dozens we ship this week — not one of thousands. The technician working on it knows your preferences and your patients by name.
About Centric Dental Arts
Fifty years of refined technique.
Built bench by bench, technician by technician — and still proud to be the lab that picks up the phone.
Our Story
A lab that grew up — without losing its hands.
Centric Dental Arts was founded in Tullahoma in 1974 on a simple belief: fit is sacred, aesthetics are earned at the bench, and a doctor should always be able to talk to the person making their case.
Five decades on, that hasn't changed. We've adopted intraoral scanning, milling, and 3D printing — exactly where they improve outcomes. Everywhere else, we use our hands. Because the milling unit doesn't know what a smile is. Our technicians do.
The Small-Lab Advantage
Why size matters — in the other direction.
Industrial labs were built for volume. We were built for outcomes. Three things change when you work with a small artisan lab.
No outsourcing, ever
Every case is made under our roof. No offshore design queues, no white-label fulfillment. The technician you talked to is the technician at the bench.
Predictable turnaround
Most cases ship in under five business days. When we commit to a delivery date, that's the day it ships.
What We Stand For
Our promises to every doctor we serve.
01
Craft Over Speed
We will never ship a case that isn't right. Period. If it needs another hour at the bench, it gets another hour.
02
Communication, Always
Questions during design get answered directly by the technician on your case — not a coordinator. You are never in the dark about your case.
03
Standing Behind Our Work
If a case isn't right, we want to know. We'd rather talk it through and make it right than have you live with a result you're not proud of.