Vicki Thomas
Special guest
As a lab owner for 16 years, I’ve loved creating beautiful smiles, but the business side—pricing, billing, and taxes—was always a challenge. That’s why I founded Savvy Lab Solutions to help small and medium size labs thrive. I’ve negotiated better vendor prices, secured top accounts receivable services, and arranged special deals for marketing, website design, and more—everything you need to succeed.
With equipment purchases like mills, printers, or scanners, I’ve already secured the best deals, so you can be sure you're getting the best value from trusted vendors. As we grow together, we’ll continue to leverage our collective buying power for even better pricing.
Let’s unlock your lab’s potential—start building with us today!
Vicki Thomas has been a guest on 3 episodes.
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418: Lab Day Chicago 2026 Part 4 with Josh Williams, Savannah Elkins, Darin McCue, Vicki Thomas, and Carrie Ling
March 30th, 2026 | 1 hr 16 mins
3d printing, access, additive, burnout, business, buying group, cad, cam, chicago, collaboration, communication, community, competition, consulting, culture, dental, design, digital, durability, efficiency, evolution, flexibles, growth, hiring, industry, innovation, lab day, lab-to-lab, laboratory, leadership, management, materials, mentorship, outsourcing, ownership, partnerships, pricing, production, removable, rpd, sales, savvy, scalability, small labs, strategy, technician, technology, training, vendors, voices from the bench, workflows
Live from LMT Lab Day Chicago, Elvis and Barb capture three conversations that highlight the future of the lab industry. From Savannah and Josh’s fast-moving digital removable workflows at GPS Digital RPD, to Darin McCue’s blunt reminder that labs need strong leadership—not just great technicians and how Saleslift Consulting can help—and finally Vicki and Carrie’s push to empower smaller labs through smarter partnerships and buying power with Savvy Lab Solutions, every discussion points to the same truth: adapting isn’t optional.
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363: From the 40th Lab Day 2025 Part 1 with Vicki Thomas, Becky Tyre, and Katie Rinaldo & Mandy Arena
March 10th, 2025 | 1 hr 3 mins
board members, buy-in, buying power, dental, dentures, denturism, denturist, donate, fundraising, highlights, laboratory, legislative, podcast, radio, savings, senate, sexy, small labs, technician, vendors, voices from the bench
We are starting off all the conversations we got while in the Ivoclar Ballroom at LMT Lab Day Chicago 2025. We have an episode full of past guests with Vicki Thomas with Savvy Lab Solutions, Becky Tyre from LMT Soundbites, and Katie Rinaldo & Mandy Arena with the Illinois Denturist Association.
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196: The Pink Mullet of Dental Labs: Vicki Thomas & Carolynn Capps
December 27th, 2021 | 53 mins 42 secs
3shape, boushie, business cards, dedication, dental, dr. jessica emery, komet usa, laboratory, passion, pink, podcast, preat, smiles at sea, softball, technician, voices from the bench
In a time when you hear of labs closing or being bought out, there are wonderful success stories in our industry. Carolynn Capps and Vicki Thomas opened their dream lab during the pandemic, made it as pink as possible, and created She Designs Dental Studios to reflect their own personalities.