Tiffany Prater CDT
Special guest
Tiffany is the owner of Destination Orthodontic Lab in Fort Worth, Texas. Starting dentistry as a Registered Dental Assistant for 12 years, fell in love with the laboratory work at a Orthodontic office. Became a CDT and opened her lab in 2016. Currently the Vice President of the Association of Orthodontic Laboratory Professionals (AOLP). Mom of Jaxton.
Tiffany Prater CDT has been a guest on 2 episodes.
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426: DLAT 2026 Part 3 with Tiffany Prater, Sydney Ribera, Marlin Gohn
May 25th, 2026 | 1 hr 2 mins
acrylic, acrylic designs, acrylic pouring, aesthetic dentistry, analog dentistry, anterior crowns, argen, bonding, cad/cam, calibration, cantonese, conference lectures, continuing education, crown aesthetics, crown failures, crown milling, crown retention, custom retainers, dental artistry, dental assisting, dental business, dental cad, dental cements, dental collaboration, dental community, dental conference, dental craftsmanship, dental creativity, dental digital transformation, dental education, dental equipment, dental finishing, dental frameworks, dental future, dental humor, dental industry, dental innovation, dental lab, dental lab podcast, dental labs in china, dental lectures, dental manufacturing, dental materials, dental materials science, dental mentors, dental mentorship, dental milling, dental networking, dental podcast, dental presentations, dental regulations, dental stories, dental support, dental technician, dental technicians, dental technology, dental technology trends, dental troubleshooting, dental workflow, digital dentistry, digital dentures, digital workflow, dlat, easyrx, entrepreneurship, fda, full arch zirconia, furnaces, glow in the dark acrylic, gradient translucency, gt zirconia, guangzhou, hands-on learning, hawley retainers, hygiene school, implant crowns, implant dentistry, implant platforms, incisal translucency, industry trends, invisalign, jbc acrylics, lab efficiency, lab life, lab management, lab owner, lab technology, laser welder, laser welding, mandarin, mentorship, milled gold crowns, milling burs, milling machines, milling strategies, multilayer zirconia, nesting, nesting supports, occlusion, org, ortho community, ortho tech, orthodontic appliances, orthodontic conference, orthodontic creativity, orthodontic education, orthodontic lab, orthodontic mentorship, orthodontic resource group, orthodontic retainers, orthodontic workflow, orthodontics, pfm, polishing, porcelain fused to metal, posterior crowns, primers, printed dentures, printed models, private labs, private practice, public speaking, restorative dentistry, retainers, saline cleaning, selective laser melting, sintering, slm, small business, soldering, texas freeze, tie-dye retainers, training, translators, translucency, vendor booths, voices from the bench, wire bending, zirconia, zirconia crowns, zirconia discs
At the 2026 DLAT meeting, Tiffany Prater and Sydney Ribera talk about mentorship, orthodontic lab work, and blending creativity with today’s digital workflows. Then Marlin Gohn from Argen shares insights on new zirconia technology, milling strategies, and what labs around the world are doing to stay ahead.
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109: Pure Gold From LMT Lab Day Chicago 2020 Part 2: Tiffany Prater, Heather Voss, Leon Hermanides
April 27th, 2020 | 1 hr 6 mins
band and loop, covid-19, dental, hawley retainer, heartland, laboratory, nadl, podcast, south africa, technician, voices from the bench, washington state
We are back to LMT Lab Day Chicago 2020 at the Argen booth where we talked to dental assistant turned ortho lab owner, Tiffany Prater. Then past podcast guest Heather Voss stops by to bring Leon Hermanides to talk about adapting his lab to the ever-changing market. All this and a update from Bennett Napier and the COVID-19.