Elvis Dahl
Co-Host of Voices from The Bench
2022 - current: Client Services Representative with Derby Dental Laboratory
2021 - 2022: District Sales Manager with the Preat Corporation
2008 - 2021: Director of Operation at Somer Dental Laboratories in Zionsville, IN
2018 - 2021: Laboratory Representative on the board of the National Association of Dental Laboratories
Elvis' passion for the Dental Laboratory Industry goes far beyond his lab. He feel that the "needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. Or the one". And united, the industry can be stronger and better.
Elvis Dahl has hosted 370 Episodes.
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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
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314: Lab Day Chicago 2024 Act 2 with Dr. Sandy & James Kirk, Dr. Ed McLaren, and Patrick Allen
April 1st, 2024 | 1 hr 8 mins
bills, bonding, bps, carpenter, ceramics, chicago, chile, dental, dental boards, denturism, digital, education, faith, ivoclar, james bond, lab day, laboratory, legislative, local support, matrix, mission trip, national movement, no prep veneers, podcast, reliable, removable, residency, star trek, star wars, suction, support, technician, trios, virginia, voices from the bench
This week we continue the conversations we got while at in the Ivoclar Ballroom during LMT Lab Day Chicago 2024. This time we have husband and wife lab owners James & Dr. Sandy Kirk, the technician's dentist Dr. Ed McLaren, and Denturist Patrick Allen.
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313: Lab Day Chicago 2024 Act 1 with Michael Wandling, Vinod Dudhat, Brian Johns, and Rob Fletcher
March 25th, 2024 | 1 hr 18 mins
3shape, a team, agriculture, all-on-x, cal-lab, cdt, change, chicago, composite, compromise, dental, die trimming, digital cdt, examiner, fixed, full arch, glidewell, health care, india, instagram, ivoclar, ivotion, japanese automotive, lab day, laboratory, leadership, lean, legos, line balance, manufacturing, master, nbc, one piece flow, open forum, photogrammetry, pm7, podcast, scan bodies, task force, technician, test, the toyota way, voices from the bench, youtube
This week starts all the conversations that Elvis and Barb got while in the Ivoclar Ballroom at LMT Lab Day Chicago. This week brings Michael Wandling, Vinod Dudhat, Brian Johns, and Rob Fletcher.
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312: From Tight Pants to Milling Burs with Renata Budny & Paul Beck
March 18th, 2024 | 1 hr 10 mins
burs, car accident, coda, covid, dental, donations, education, google, grow, improvements, jaws, lab day, laboratory, milling tools, mills, new york, partial, patience, perfection, podcast, rg, skills, students, talent, teach, technician, voices from the bench, waiting list, waxing lululemon, zoom
We are celebrating 6 years of Voices From the Bench! Every year we are joined by Professor Renata Budny from the Restorative Dentistry Program at the New York City College of Technology. This year she brings along graduate Paul Beck, who has taken his knowledge to Sierra Dental Tools.
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311: LIVE ON TAPE FROM CAL-LAB 2024 with Basil Callahan, Sean Siegel, Jim Thacker, and Jeff Stronk
March 11th, 2024 | 1 hr 16 mins
beard, cal-lab, cnc, dental, disruption, dso, eos, glidewell, good topics, hotel, jewelry, kfc, lab day, laboratory, live band, marines, networking, open forum, peers, podcast, speaker, technician, voices from the bench
For 98 years, the Cal-Lab Association has been holding their annual meeting. Usually held the same week at Lab Day Chicago, now it's closer and better. During the cocktail event we sit down with Basil Callahan, Sean Siegel, Jim Thacker, and Jeff Stronk.
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310: Enhancing Analog with Digital and Artistry with Aleksandra Polczynski
March 4th, 2024 | 58 mins 30 secs
analog, artist, ceramist, consultations, dental, digital, dtg, exocad, face scanner, full arch, hands-on, immediate load, in-office, indiana, kois, lab day, laboratory, opti glaze, painter, podcast, poland, printing, speaker, teaching, technician, treatment planning, voices from the bench, waxing, workshops, zirkonzahn
This week Elvis and Barb talk to Aleksandra Polczynski, who was raised in Poland, but her art got her into a US dental lab. Aleksandra talks about her journey, becoming a ceramist, running an in-office lab, and teaching around the country full arch layering and staining.
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309: Positive Reinforcement with John Rano
February 26th, 2024 | 1 hr 1 min
analog skills, attitude, canada, clear choice, conversion, dental, devalue, digital jig, discouraged, encouragement, feedback, florida, lab day, laboratory, love their job, podcast, scanners, self awareness, setting teeth, technician, train, traveling technician, voices from the bench
Meet John Rano. Son of a dental technician from Argentina. After working for his dad, John sets off on his own and eventually opens Unique Solutions Dental Lab specializing in full arch and he talks about helping to improve the next generation of technicians with a little positive reinforcement.
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308: Harvesting Your Lab's Value with Rob Laizure and Sasha Der Avanessian
February 19th, 2024 | 1 hr 3 mins
ai, artificial intelligence, brand identity, cal-lab, communication, dental, differentiate, engaging, ez gum, intangible, journaling, lab day, laboratory, leadership, lmt, logo, marketing messaging, pizza, podcast, rescheduling, solving a problem, strength, tangible, technician, therapist, value, voices from the bench, whiteboard
This week we talk to two giants in our industry, Rob Laizure and Sasha Der Avanessian. They have come together to help labs find their value and to create a message that will allow labs to differentiate themselves in an industry of commodity products.
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307: A Youth's Excursion into Conversions with Tyler McCabe
February 12th, 2024 | 1 hr 32 secs
1099, airport, analog, blood, books, breakage, cdt, clearning, colorado, dental, denturist, denver, digital, eyes, fake teeth, lab day, laboratory, multi units, podcast, production lab, removable, repair, straumann, surgery, surgical guides, technician, templates, tonsillitis, traveling, voices from the bench
This week we talk to a young technician that started at the age of 13 and only 3 years later, is doing chairside conversions, Tyler McCabe. Tyler talks about his lab family, some of the labs he has worked at, and what the future holds for him.