About the show
A weekly podcast dedicated to the dental laboratory industry. Featuring anyone associated with the profession from all over the world. Host are in their own dental laboratory every day making teeth and interviewing people from the industry on their time off. New episodes every Monday morning.
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Episodes
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383: IDS 2025 & exocad Part 7 with Dr. Milad Shadrooh, Dr. Robbie Hughes, Zelko Relic, & Ben Weber
July 28th, 2025 | 1 hr 1 min
ai, computer sciences, confident, dental, dental therapist, digital workflows, education, exocad, hand holding, ids, implants, infrared, inspiration, laboratory, liverpool, models, move or remove, moving teeth, palate expanding, printing, scale, singing excited, smile makeovers, software, solution, stadiums, suck down, technician, training, trimming, under the hood, voices from the bench
A jam-packed episode featuring conversations from the exocad booth at IDS 2025. Two doctors that are teaching others the ways of digital at Avant Garde Dentistry, Dr. Milad Shadrooh and Dr. Robbie Hughes. Then we have a great time getting to know Zelko Relic, the CTO of Align Technologies. We wrap up the episode with Ben Weber from ModuleWorks.
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382: IDS 2025 & exocad Part 7 with Jade Connors and Lisa Aguirre
July 21st, 2025 | 1 hr 6 mins
artist, bego, blinged, dd, dental, dental inkjet printer, dirty talk, exocad, front office, gemstones, heal the mind, ids, influencers, japan, judge, kol, laboratory, lecturing, managing, mental health, music, national denturist association, paper vs patients, pictures, positive attitude, product manager, rdt, roland dga, sick, stickers, switzerland, technician, travel, vita, voices from the bench, work hard and play hard
Back again.... still.... with more amazing conversations from the exocad booth at IDS 2025 in Cologne, Germany. First is past podcast guest and Canadian Denturist Jade Connors. Then we learn all about DGShape and the Roland mills with Lisa Aguirre.
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381: IDS 2025 & exocad Part 6 with Björn Zäuner and Tillmann Steinbrecher
July 14th, 2025 | 1 hr 58 secs
articulation, bite, bottlenecks, ceo, code, customer feedback, dental, design, distributors, emotional engagement, exocad, growth, hand articulate, ids, jaw motion, laboratory, memes, milling center, open software, ortho lab, psychology, purple, remakes, researcher, smile design, student, technician, training, user interface, voices from the bench, xsnap
Barb and Elvis bring two powerhouse conversations from the exocad booth at IDS 2025 featuring two people that are changing digital dental design every day. Björn Zäuner tells the story of Bite-Finder and how it can lower remakes by up to 50% and then we chat with the CEO and co-creator of exocad, Tillmann Steinbrecher.
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380: IDS 2025 & exocad Part 5 with John Krier & Dr. Jeff Horowitz
July 7th, 2025 | 1 hr 6 mins
above the line, add, airway, be involved, below the line, bored, ceo, clients, cpap, culture, dental, dentist, designer, exocad, fda, feedback, foundation, ids, invisalign, knight dental lab, laboratory, melatonin, midwinter, palate expansions, panthera, partners, sleep, sleep apnea, technician, tmj, voices from the bench
The conversations from the exocad booth at IDS 2025 just keep coming! This week we talk to two Americans in Germany. John Krier is the CEO of Leixir Dental Group, Barb's boss and Dr. Jeff Horowitz that talks about creating airway passage and his podcast Dentist IN the Know.
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379: IDS 2025 & exocad Part 4 with Juan David Jaramillo, Luis Diego Monsalve, Steve Campbell, & Dr. Nicolas Rohde
June 30th, 2025 | 1 hr 10 mins
acrylic, ai, aligners, berlin, cam software, columbia, dental, denture teeth, designs, exocad, global, growing, ids, ios scans, laboratory, milling machines, nails, on-stage, patient acceptance, pure chance, recruitment, regulation, resin, selling, software, speaking, strategies, technician, testing support, vhf, video, voices from the bench, water
We are back with another jam-packed episode featuring conversations from the exocad booth at IDS 2025 in Germany! First up are the two gentlemen behind New Stetic, Juan David Jaramillo and Luis Diego Monsalve. Then we chat with past guest and good friend Steve Campbell about exocad ART and we wrap up the episode with Dr. Nicolas Rohde from VHF milling machines.
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378: Brandi Nowak & Marybeth Starr Are Bringing a Festival to Labs
June 23rd, 2025 | 1 hr 4 mins
bag, branding, brother, computers, darby, dental, dental tech supply, digital, disney, dsl family feud, evening events, exocad, family, fun, ghost tour, harvest, hurricane, ids, jazz, laboratory, ladies of the mill, laughter, legacy, nowak, peddler, psychiatrist, remote work, river boat, roadshow, tae kwon do, technician, telesales, vendor, voices from the bench, zahn
This week, Elvis and Barb talk to the ladies from Nowak Dental Supplies that is bringing to life NOLA Lab Fest. Brandi Nowak and Marybeth Starr talk about this amazing event happening November 7-8 in New Orleans.
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377: IDS 2025 & exocad Part 3 with Dr. Manish Chhabra & Tobias Specht
June 16th, 2025 | 1 hr 25 secs
3shape, cad, cam, cerec, consulting, customer service, dental, dentist, design center, digident, digital dentures, dubai, emax, exocad, faster, follow up, hard reline, headset, ids, india, ivoclar, ivotion, laboratory, milling center, muscle memory, patients, prevention and care, printable wax, programill, quality, reline, repairing, scalability, scaling, speakers, technician, technology, training, unlearn, virtual reality, voices from the bench, vr
This week Elvis and Barb bring you two more conversation from the exocad booth at IDS 2025. First up is Dr. Manish Chhabra who ran a 300 person design center in India and is now training people with VR. Then we chat with Tobias Specht from Ivoclar all about what they have been working on, what’s new, and how they do a massive show in Germany.
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376: IDS 2025 & exocad Part 2 with Amy Tate, Dr. Rami Gamil, & Pam Rehm
June 9th, 2025 | 1 hr 5 mins
3d vision, argen, cad, cbct, certification, chicago, cone bean, dental, dentist, denturist, digital dentures, digital records, edentulous scans, education, exocad, fixed, high energy, hype, ids, imaging, implants, internship, ios, laboratory, lecturing, management, mentorship, models, nate, outsource, removable, revolutionary, scan every denture, scanning, speaking, study clubs, teaching, technician, technology, theory, training, university, voices from the bench, world cup
Back at it from the exocad booth at IDS 2025! First up is new"ish" to the dental lab industry, Amy Tate from the UK. Then we chat with Dr. Rami Gamil, a dentist from Egypt that brought technology to the masses, and we wrap up with Canadian Pam Rehm who is out to make sure every denturist has the proper opportunity to go digital.
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Episode 375: IDS 2025 & exocad Part 1 with Hajir Shamil, Daniel Portal, Gerson Prada, & Dr. Diogo Viegas
June 2nd, 2025 | 1 hr 5 mins
ai, all-on-x, approval, bite international, burnt out, communication, dental, dentist, designer, digital, exocad, exoplan, face scanning, firing doctors, florida, ids, implants, ios, laboratory, malo clinic, miyo, paint a picture, partials, printers, single visit, social pressure, south america, spanish, teaching, technician, traffic, utah, voices from the bench
We start the run of conversations we got while in the exocad booth at IDS 2025 in Cologne, Germany. This week features Hajir Shamil from Iraq, Daniel Portal & Gerson Prada from the USA, and Dr. Diogo Viegas from Portugal.
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374: Dr. Andrew Turchin Has the Formula For a Smiling Success
May 26th, 2025 | 1 hr 4 mins
3shape, aesthetics, ceramics, communication, dental, designers, education, emax, exocad, high end, hiring, ivoclar, lab day, laboratory, neck pain, picky patients, porcelain, quality control, teaching, technician, voices from the bench
This week we meet Dr. Andrew Turchin from Aspen Colorado who has developed a mathematical equation that has allowed him and his in-office lab technicians to formulate a simple treatment that creates better smiles.
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373: Paolo Lubrano & Tiffany Schreppler Agree That RealGuide is REAL GOOD
May 19th, 2025 | 1 hr 5 mins
affordable, bar, bone reduction, cad, collaboration, communication, demo, dental, fixed, guided surgery, hands on, ibar, implants, instructional videos, lab sales, laboratory, planning, radiology, real good, technician, training, voices from the bench
There are implant planning software and there are restorative design software. Did you know that there is an excellent one that does both and is affordable called RealGuide. Paolo Lubrano from Implant Concierge and Tiffany Schreppler from ZimVie come on to talk about this versatile and powerful software.
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372: Mark Hidde Wants You to WINWINGO and Chris Nevarez Can Help Patients Win with Medical Insurance
May 12th, 2025 | 1 hr 20 mins
all-on-x, area, blue cross ppo, connecting, culture, dental, distribution, follow through, incognito mode, indeed, insurance, laboratory, living, marketing, medical billing, patterson, photos, physician referral, profile, relocation, salary, scratch rep, software, sundries, talent, technician, voices from the bench, wearhouse, x-ray, zip recruiter
This week brings a conversation with Mark Hidde from WINWINGO about a new way to find employees and for technicians to find labs. We also talk to Chris Nevarez about using medical insurance for full arch dental work.
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371: Robert Kreyer & Dr. Stephen Wagner Want Better Dentures Not Faster
May 5th, 2025 | 1 hr 4 mins
better, collaboration, communication, craft, data, dental, dentures, digital, e-human, fundamentals, keep it simple, laboratory, measurements, not faster, polyjet, printing, proof of concept, records, set ups, shrinkage, sucks, technician, technique, voices from the bench, white
With the shift to digital dentures in our industry, two leaders in removables are advocating that the fundamentals be used as we move forward. Robert Kreyer & Dr. Stephen Wagner want to make sure that we are making better dentures and not worrying about making them faster.
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370: From the 40th Lab Day 2025 Part 5 with Federico Manes, Mellissa Everett, Sandra Puurits, & Jay Work
April 28th, 2025 | 1 hr 14 mins
3shape, accent, all-on-x, bleach, bleep, building, capture, ceramist, chewing, dental, dentures, designing, exocad, extra, i do, jaw, k1, laboratory, marriage, movement, nature, optisplint, paperwork, tattoos, technician, time, visa, voices from the bench, working
Another trip back to the Ivoclar Ballroom at LMT Lab Day 2024 with Federico Manes from MODJAW, Mellissa Everett who works to lab jobs, and a love-lab story of Sandra Puurits & Jay Work.
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369: Cal-Lab 2025 Part 2 with Liam Johns, Tom Wiand, Scott Lowrey, and Matt Cushing
April 21st, 2025 | 1 hr 8 mins
acquisitions, aox, arizona, bego, cut, delivery driver, dental, dentures, digital partials, european league, father, finisher, fires, football, framework, full arch, hiring, ivobase, laboratory, lucitone, manager, milled dentures, nfl, phone, photogrammetry, printed flexible, processor, prosthodontist, public speaking, sales, smart denture conversion, steelers, technical support, technician, voices from the bench
We are back with a packed episode from the 2025 Cal-Lab Association Meeting. First up is Liam Johns from Derby Dental Laboratory, Tom Wiand & Scott Lowrey from Wiand Dental Lab, and Matt Cushing from First Choice Dental Lab.
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368: From the 40th Lab Day 2025 Part 4 with Eric Kukucka, Chelsea Homire, & Brittany Mitchell
April 14th, 2025 | 1 hr 11 mins
3d printing, 3shape, 4 days, adhesive, analog, art, aspen, associates, cerec, customized, d3 splint, dental, dentures, design, digital, donate, drawing, exocad, expanded function, facebook, front desk, implants, in-house, in-office, ivobase, laboratory, luciton, mesh mixer, partners, patients, protocols, quality, removable, signature elite, skill, sprint ray, st. louise, technician, the office, trade school, training, vhf mill, voices from the bench
We are back again in the Ivoclar Ballroom at Lab Day Chicago 2025. This week we talk to Eric Kukucka from Aspen Dental, Chelsea Homire a dental assistant turned lab tech, and Brittany Michell, a lab tech that does digital dentures in a 12 doctor group.