FDA Cleared, last investigation 02-08-2024
FDA Cleared, last investigation 02-08-2024
Scott Mappin began his dental career in his father’s laboratory as a teenager. That early start shaped everything that followed. Not just the technical skills, but the understanding of what it actually takes to produce consistent, precise dental restorations at the bench every single day.
Over the next 37 years, Scott worked at every level of the dental technology industry. He owned his own laboratory in Vermont for 13 years. He trained technicians across every phase of production at one of the largest NDX laboratories in the country. He became a guest speaker at Harvard Dental School, presenting to fourth-year dental students on the basics of crown and bridge standards. He was the first remote trainer hired by 3M to train dentists and staff on intraoral scanning technology, traveling from Fairbanks, Alaska to Munich, Germany and Paris in the process.
He was not watching the industry from the outside. He was inside it, at the highest levels, for decades.
Before Strategy Milling existed, Scott was already building the expertise that would make it possible.
As a quality control manager at Issaquah Dental Laboratory, the largest LAVA milling center in the United States and second largest in the world at the time, he reduced internal and external remakes by $440,000 in eight months by using process standardization and working hands-on with the technicians. Simultaneously, he brought in over $100,000 in new business.
Completed the iTero training for trainers and was certified to train dentists on both iTero and LAVA COS intraoral scanning systems.
By that point in his career, Scott had spent decades studying what precision in dental manufacturing actually required. He had seen what the best labs in the country were doing.
He had seen where they were falling short. And he had a clear idea of what a better standard would look like.
In 2011, a single conversation shifted everything. Someone asked Scott why nobody was milling gold. He initially dismissed it. Fifteen minutes later, Strategy Milling was the mission.
In 2012, he attended Chicago Midwinter, selected Röders of America as the milling platform, and launched. A year of development with metallurgists and materials scientists followed, producing the proprietary process that drives every case today.
He has not had 20 consecutive nights of uninterrupted sleep since January 2012. That is what building something that matters looks like.
Eighteen months after launch, Strategy Milling operated out of a newly remodeled 6,000 square foot secure facility with multiple Röders RXD5 industrial mills, RCS automation, an in-house foundry, and room to expand to 12 or more systems.
The technology is world class. The systems behind it are what make it run. Documented processes, rigorous cross-training, and a team where every technician knows every stage of the workflow. Lights-out, 24-hour production that delivers the same standard on every case, every shift, regardless of who is on the floor.
Labs everywhere are still dealing with the same metal frustrations that drove Scott to build Strategy Milling in the first place. Inconsistent fits. Remakes.
Wasted bench time. Alloy inventory overhead. The cost of utilizing a now-outdated process.
Strategy Milling was built to eliminate those problems upstream, before they ever reach your bench.
Join the labs across the US who trust Strategy Milling to deliver consistent results case after case.
