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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330: The Final More From exocad Insights 2024 with Chuck Genco, Yousef Ibrahim, Maher Al Hanfeish, Jen Ludwig, and Lindsey Rowan
July 22nd, 2024 | 1 hr 7 mins
10k, 5k, ai, all-on-4, cdt, cheerleading, corus, dental, digital, dso, dtx, efficiency, exocad, fort worth, fundraising, grants, implants, ivoclar, laboratory, leadership, miyo, podcast, raising money, scanning, solutions, sponsorships, support, technician, texas, time to teeth, triathlon, van hook, voices from the bench, warranty, workflow, zirconia
All good things must end as we wrap up the final conversations from exocad Insights 2024 with Chuck Genco, Yousef Ibrahim, Maher Al Hanfeish. Then we tack on a conversation about the Race For the Future with Jen Ludwig and Lindsey Rowan.
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329: Three More From exocad Insights 2024 with Dr. Marcus White, Ashley Bryne, & Seth Potter
July 15th, 2024 | 1 hr 12 mins
application, canada, ceramist, certified, conversion, cow shed, crowns, dental, dental therapist, digital, dominican republic, drake dental lab, excel, exocad, focus, free hand implants, freelance, full arch, group, implant planning, implants, indeed, ios scans, itero, laboratory, laptop, loyalty, luggage, milling center, night guards, podcast, printing, remote, share concepts, spain, synergy, technician, test, together, trainer, vacation, voices from the bench, workflow
Back on the island of Mallorca Spain at exocad Insights 2024 with 3 fantastic conversations including Dr. Marcus White, Ashley Bryne, & Seth Potter
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328: More & More From exocad Insights 2024 with Beth Collington, Luis Saraiva, and Nuno Borrego
July 8th, 2024 | 1 hr 6 mins
Back to the Beach this week with more conversations at exocad Insights 2024 with the President of exocad North America, Beth Colington, Portugal lab owner Luis Saraiva, and Nuno Borrego who is connection designers around the world with work that needs done.
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327: Even More from Exocad Insights 2024 with Kristina & Margarita Vaitelyte and Cat Edney
July 1st, 2024 | 1 hr 12 mins
aligners, analog, bright white, can't numb, communication, dental, digital, direct access, direct restorations, direct to patients, drill and fill, efficacy, exocad, exocad art, implants, itero, ivoclar, laboratory, lithuanian, miyo, no walls, partnership, podcast, restorative hygienist, scotland, speaker, teamwork, technician, video, voices from the bench, whatsapp
We are back with even more conversations from Exocad Insights 2024 from the island of Mallorca, Spain! This week we talk to sister's Kristina Vaitelyte, the CAD expert and Margarita Vaitelyte, the Ceramist. Then we find out what a Dental Therapist is with Cat Edney.
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326: Exocad Insights 2024 with Jaime Moreno, Saulius Janusevicius, Alex Chabachevitch, Pinhas Adar
June 24th, 2024 | 1 hr 5 mins
air force manual, army, ceramic, dental, dentures, digital, drawing, exocad, fixed, hotlanta, laboratory, movie star, pen 3d, perceived value, podcast, prices, printing, procera, spain, stratus, technician, test, trainer, ukraine, university, voices from the bench, willy gellar
We start off our collection of conversations from exocad Insights 2024! This week features Jaime Moreno from Spain, Saulius Janusevicius from Lithuania, Alex Chabachevitch from Canada, and Pinhas Adar from the US.
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325: For the Love of Teeth and Industry with Sabine Mayer & Denise Burris
June 17th, 2024 | 1 hr 6 mins
analog dinosaur, career, cdt, dental, denver, germany, grants, ids, inspire, italy, jensen, job, laboratory, layering social media, love, miyo, nightshift, passion, podcast, race for the future, scholarships, smile line, technician, voices from the bench
This week we meet Sabine Mayer, expert ceramist that was in a production lab for 28 years before finding love and a passion for her work. Then we have a great conversion with the President of the NADL, Denise Burris, who we sat down with at the FDLA Symposium.
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324: A Raw Look at Full Arch with Dr. Ryan Dunlop and Dr. Johnathan Abenaim
June 10th, 2024 | 1 hr 5 mins
artist, change, communication, courses, dark side, dental, dental implants, digital, do it right, foundation, full arch, hands on, implants, innovating, laboratory, learning, mindset, podcast, teaching, team, technician, truthful, unfiltered, unsponsored, voices from the bench
This week we dive deep into full arch dentistry with Dr. Ryan Dunlop and Dr. Johnathan Abenaim. They both teach their own courses, but soon they will partner up on stage to give the clinicians, the staff, and the dental technicians a RAW look into this ever-growing procedure.
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323: Answering Opportunity with Thomas Brainsky
June 3rd, 2024 | 1 hr 6 mins
aptitude, attitude, babies, carbon, dental, different, digital jay collins, employees, entrepreneur, failures, faster, hired, laboratory, lessons, marketing, not my job, podcast, problem solver, salespeople, scalability, taxes, technician, trucking, twins, voices from the bench, warped sense of humor, wellness program
This week we get to know Entrepreneur Thomas Brainsky. Thomas bought a lab 12 years ago with no knowledge of dental labs. He has since sold his lab and shares everything he learned along the way. The good and the bad.
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322: The Full "Arch-Bishop" of 3shape Design with Cole Bishop
May 27th, 2024 | 1 hr 4 mins
1600, 3shape, ai, all-on-x, arrowhead, artificial intelligence, asia, cnc, cosmetic, costa rica, dental, full contour, laboratory, lmt, lucid, management, menu, model, phoenix, podcast, post and core, preferences, profiles, public speaking, quality, redesign, technician, treasure dental studio, voices from the bench, waxing
This week we chat to the Global Head of Design Quality with 3Shape Design Services, Cole Bishop. Cole talks about his journey into digital design, his time at Full Contour, the transition to 3shape, and being a part of the team that developed their AI services called Automate.
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Getting a Grip on Hybrids with Shaana Gripp
May 20th, 2024 | 1 hr 1 min
anax, assisting, business, cerc designing, communication, contour, dental, emax, evolved, exocad, green state, hybrids, implants, laboratory, photography, podcast, practice, printing, technician, upstairs, voices from the bench, vortex
This week we meet Shaana Gripp, a dental assistant turned dental technician who taught herself exocad and ceramics to becomes an in-office technicians specializing in full arch hybrids.
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320: Making It Your Own with Kevin Mahan and Kite Saito
May 13th, 2024 | 1 hr 2 mins
adapting, alloy, arkansas, blues, colors, dental, don cornell, fdla, florida, full arch, fusion, hands on, japan, jensen, laboratory, layering, make it your own, mixing, monolithic, neighbors, podcast, presentation, saturation, slate, smoke, social media, structure, table clinic, technician, voices from the bench, waxer
This week we get to learn about Jensen Dental and all things MIYO with Kevin Mahan and Kite Saito. They talk about the story behind the name, Kite's story into dental, and some amazing tips and trick to "Make It Your Own"
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319: The Benefit of Providing Benefits for Dental Technicians with Michael Clark
May 6th, 2024 | 1 hr 7 mins
accidents, alloy, anton woolf, argen, bodybuilding, broker, cancer, colonial life, cybersecurity, delta dental, dental, disability, discipline, dso, harvest dental, helping, hr, insurance, laboratory, life insurance, long term, payroll, podcast, reduce, short term, technician, the dental lab, voices from the bench, voluntary benefits, workman's comp
This week we talk to Michael Clark, who after being a pivotal member of Argen as they went from an alloy company to a digital solutions partner, has embarked on a goal of providing good insurance benefits to those in the dental community.
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318: Lab Day Chicago 2024 Act 5 with Carrie Ling, Randi James, David Lesh, Nitasha Rizvi, Beth Brown, Lola Welch, & Julia Glancey
April 29th, 2024 | 1 hr 9 mins
3d arm, chicago, cost of good sales, dental, dso, friends, gross profit margins, harvard, husband / wife, hygiene, international, ivoclar, journey, lab day, laboratory, ladies of the mill, learning, london, on stage, podcast, profitability, roundtables, sales, school, sprint ray, support, surgery new york, teaching, technician, technician of the year, travel, voices from the bench
We wrap up all of Lab Day Chicago 2024 with a collection of 4 conversations from the Ivoclar Ballroom. Carrie Ling & Randi James talk about friendship, David Lesh talks about profit, Nitasha Rizvi talks about teaching at Harvard, and Beth Brown, Lola Welch, and Julia Glancey chat about coming to America for the show.
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317: Lab Day Chicago 2024 Act 4 with Nichoel Burdge, Kay Fritze, Allison Cook, Jen Ludwig, Mike Claugherty, Scott Gallacher, & Dee Grimm
April 22nd, 2024 | 1 hr 8 mins
3shape, accurate, articulator, cal-lab, ce events, chicago, cnc, coen brothers, communication, dental, digital, education, exocad, hinges, home, implants, internet, ivoclar, lab day, lab of the year, laboratory, movie star, passion, pins, podcast, property manager, reinventing, remote, technician, training, voices from the bench, wfh, work from home
We are back in the Ivoclar Ballroom at LMT Lab Day Chicago 2024 talking about remote designers with Nichoel Burdge, Kay Fritze,
& Allison Cook, then about passion and being in movies with Jen Ludwig & Mike Claugherty and then making a better articulator with Scott Gallacher & Dee Grimm. -
316: excited about exocad (Insights 2024) with Christine McClymont & Dr. August de Oliveira
April 15th, 2024 | 1 hr 5 mins
biannual, cad cam, ce credits, cerec, charity, co-hosting, copy denture, dental, digital dentures, digital wax up, education, exocad, experts, face scanning, laboratory, market, mod institute, panel, plastic surgery, podcast, smile creator, spaz, speakers, technician, topics, vendors, voices from the bench, vr, white party
This week we highlight exocad and the upcoming exocad Insights 2024 meeting in Mallorca, Spain! Christine McClymont is the Global Head of Marketing and Communication for exocad and Dr. August de Oliveria is a speaker at the event and a dentist that uses exocad every day.
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315: Lab Day Chicago 2024 Act 3 with James & James Angelone, Patrick Coon, and Peggy Alexander
April 8th, 2024 | 1 hr 17 mins
air force, alabama, apprentice, assistant, biology, buffalo, chicago, civilian, communication, competition, dental, dental hygiene, dentures, education, hog, iraq, ivoclar, ivotion, lab day, laboratory, lithium disilicate, pm7, podcast, pr5, print, r&d, roe dental lab, smart denture conversion, sweet home alabama, teamwork, technician, texas, too old, voices from the bench, zirconia
Back AGAIN in the Ivoclar Ballroom at LMT Lab Day Chicago 2024 with James (The Denture man) Angelone and his son James Angelone, Patrick Coon from Ivoclar, and Peggy Alexander, a clinical educator at the University of Texas