There’s a good reason the dental laboratory at Fort Gordon carries the motto “The one and only.”
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Technicians Ricardo Power and Theresa Reilly work at the U.S. Army Dental Laboratory at Fort Gordon. The Army's only full-time dental lab serves thousands of soldiers around the world.
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Col. Rick Windhorn, the dental lab commander, shows the work his soldiers do. Much of it is still accomplished by hand - often under microscopes - but technology also helps with some jobs.
The small shop on the fringe of Dwight D. Eisenhower Army Medical Center is the only full-time lab in the Army, supplying thousands of soldiers each year with dentures, bridges, crowns and other dental hardware. The products leaving Augusta ship to 138 dental clinics stateside and worldwide, from Fort Hood, Texas, to Afghanistan.
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http://chronicle.augusta.com/latest-news/2011-12-12/fort-gordon-has-armys-only-dental-lab
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