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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306: It's the Window into the Body with Jessica Love (Birrell) & Laura Gilbert
February 5th, 2024 | 1 hr 9 mins
anatomy, artist, bench top heroes, biofilm, communication, dental, documentary, emax, heart, hygiene, in-house, lab day, laboratory, line angles, math, mormon, morphology, nutrition, plumber's crack, podcast, production, relationships, sassy teeth, science, smile design, teaching, technician, voices from the bench, y2k
This week we talk all about what's happening in the Ivoclar Ballroom during LMT Lab Day Chicago 2024. Good friend and General Manager of Ivoclar in Canada, Laura Gilbert talks about the room and special guest and a speaker during the weekend, Jessica Love (Birrell) talks about her journey to owning a clinic that see the mouth as the window into the body.
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305: Educating the Future of Digital Dentures with Dr. Wendy Clark
January 29th, 2024 | 1 hr 5 mins
1937, a2, border molding, breakage, carbon, centric relation, dental, dentures, digital, fail, full color, gothic arch, ivotion, lab day, laboratory, partials, podcast, records, reference denture, removables, stratasys, technician, voices from the bench, workflow
This week we are joined once again by Dr. Wendy Clark who teaches removables at the University of North Carolina. Dr. Clark talks about what she has learned over the years with digital dentures, why the workflow clinically is better, how the outcome can be better, why they fail, and how understanding digital can help us all understand analog better.
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304: It's a Snowy Midnight Storm with MIYO and Amanda Carson
January 22nd, 2024 | 1 hr 1 min
artist, bleach, ceramics, colors, dental, design, dtg, emax, ghost, gym, ivoclar, lab day, laboratory, linen, midnight, miyo, ovens, pm7, podcast, self-taught, stain, structure, table clinic, teacher, technician, texture, voices from the bench, waxing, zircad prime
This week we are talking to MIYO expert, Amanda Carson. Amanda talks about her journey, learning about and eventually teaching others about MIYO, tells Elvis how to use it, and her plans to open her own lab very soon.
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303: It's the Bobby and Blake Show! with Bobby Kenney and Blake Barksdale
January 15th, 2024 | 1 hr 5 mins
army, bombed, conversions, culture, dan yoder, dental, full arch, implants, ivotion, laboratory, missiles, new teeth now, pm7, poached, podcast, removables, t-ball, technician, tempories, triathlon, voices from the bench
This week we are joined by two "gentlemen" who are doing great things in Huntsville, Alabama. Bobby Kenney comes on to talk about his journey in dental technology that has landed him back at Barksdale Dental Lab to help Blake Barksdale take the lab to the next level of digital dentistry.
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302: From Bait Shop to Metal Printing with Josh Williams
January 8th, 2024 | 1 hr 8 mins
anneal, bait shop, burn out, chrome cobalt, corporate, dental, digital, electropolishing, gps, hand wax, laboratory, maintenance, micron, model room, mowing, ndx, octan, outsourcing, partials, podcast, print, printed resin, repairs, supports, team solutions, technician, titanium, voices from the bench, warping
This week we talk to an analog framework technician turned metal printing expert from GPS Digital RPD. Josh explains the process of getting into metal printing, some of the issues they have had, and what it took to perfect such new technology.
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301: Quality Over Quantity with Alina Ceclan
January 1st, 2024 | 1 hr 6 mins
bench test, changes, corporate, dental, family, full cast, growth, instagram, laboratory, layering, learning, love, miyo, old teeth, podcast, recruiter, self study, speed, structure, technician, tips, voices from the bench, work hard
This week we talk to ceramist Alina Ceclan from Qlab in London. Alina talks all about her journey from Romania, how she didn't like teeth at first, loving the MIYO system, and learning to make them look like teeth and not restorations.
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300: Mastering exocad with Marjorie Andrade
December 25th, 2023 | 1 hr 11 mins
ai, analog, blender, ceramist, communication, creepy, dental, edit, exocad, fast learner, freelance, gamer, graphic design, idd, inlab, laboratory, microwaves, nerd, patients, podcast, technician, voices from the bench, work visa, workflow
We are celebrating the 300th episode on Christmas with special guest Marjorie Andrade, a Brazilian technicians working in New Zealand. Marjorie talks about her journey, school, learning digital, doing freelance design work, and putting together one of the best online exocad course.
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299: The Netflix of Digital Dentistry with Dr. Ahmad Al-Hassiny and iDD
December 18th, 2023 | 1 hr 21 mins
3d printing, blog, cerec, covid, dental, e4d, exocad, family, future, growth, hospital, ids, laboratory, netflix, podcast, printing, study club, super chill, technician, trios, voices from the bench
This week brings us a dentist all the way from New Zealand that is leading the way in digital dentistry, Dr. Ahmad Al-Hassiny. Dr. Ahmad created the Institute of Digital Dentistry, an online platform with a ton of content relevant to both clinicians and technicians.
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298: Turning Bad Experiences Into Good with Sam Talassinos and XYZ Dental
December 11th, 2023 | 1 hr 7 mins
3d printing, adia, asiga, board member, certification, dental, deregulation, dg shape, exocad, grant, high jumping, install, laboratory, mes-icore, mill box, podcast, rag trade, relationships, second generation, technician, training, voices from the bench, whitepeaks
This week we chat with Sam Talassinos, who owns XYZ Dental in Australia specializing in selling what they use and using what they sell.
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297: Real Implant Talk with Joel Gonzales and MegaGen
December 4th, 2023 | 1 hr 10 mins
abutments, air force, bone reduction, connection, dallas, dental, education, electrician, fp1, fp2, fp3, full arch, laboratory, lifecore, morse taper, oem, platform, podcast, scan bodies, screws, surgical guides, team approach, technician, threads, voices from the bench
This week we get super nerdy with Joel Gonzales from MegaGen North America. Joel talks about his past with implants, why he educates rather than sells, all about surgery protocols, all about the MegaGen implant, and using the right tool for the right job.
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296: Igniting The Fire In Your Belly with Marina Caponigro
November 27th, 2023 | 1 hr 11 mins
aidite, anax usa, cooking, courses, dental, dental assistant, elementary school teacher, food, gc america, hiring, laboratory, meatballs, multitasking, podcast, sin dental, teaching, technician, traveling, ukraine, voices from the bench
This week we talk to the ever-enthusiastic Marina Caponigro from the Smileology Group Dental Lab. Marina talks about coming to America, learning chairside and lab work, her passion for teaching others, and opening her own lab to help other labs.
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295: Growth Through Solution Based Sales with David Lesh
November 20th, 2023 | 1 hr 6 mins
buying signals, cal-lab, captek, concert dental, crm, dale dental, dental, empress, follow up, gross margin, laboratory, podcast, role play, sales, technician, territory, top of mind, turn around times, voices from the bench
Even if you are not a "salesperson", everyone in the lab plays a part in the growth of the lab. This week David Lesh from 8 and 9 Consulting comes on to talk about his background, putting together a sales plan, the art of strategic pauses, and selling by providing solutions and not price.
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294: DTG Symposium 2023 Part 4 with Salvador Carrillo and Renata Vano
November 13th, 2023 | 1 hr 8 mins
baja, bella st. clair, brazil, cancun, clear, dental, dental lab association, denture, digital, education, english, federation, high end, ivoclar, judging, laboratory, mexico, pasadena, podcast, retired, san diego, school, social media, teaching, technician, tijuana, travel, veneers, voices from the bench, water, work / life
We wrap up the conversations from the 2023 DTG Symposium with two great guests. First is from Mexico, but now in the States, Salvador Carrillo and then from Brazil, Renata Vano. Both with great and passionate stories.
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293: DTG Symposium 2023 Part 3 with Dan Boskocevic, Kostia Vyshamirski, and David & Michael De Wet
November 6th, 2023 | 1 hr 7 mins
3shape, analog, art, cal-lab, cast, cdt, cleveland, creation, damaged goods, dental, deregistration, facebook, in-office, japan, jewelry, kol, laboratory, layering, lisi, lockdown, member, military, parents, plaster room, podcast, print, refractory die, roe, south africa, technician, voices from the bench, von grow
We are back again at the DTG Symposium 2023 talking to Dan Boskocevic from GC America, Kostia Vyshamirski from Latvia, and David & Michael De Wet all the way from New Zealand. It's a star studded show!
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292: DTG Symposium 2023 Part 2 with Shelia Raquel & Quint Whipple
October 30th, 2023 | 1 hr 1 min
air force, coin, competition, dental, dental assistant, dentist, education, female, hygienist, laboratory, las vegas, lvi, military, new orleans, occlusion, podcast, school, stories, technician, voices from the bench, wife, zirconia
This week we are back at the 2023 DTG Symposium with Shelia Raquel from White Peaks Dental Solutions USA and Quint Whipple, the man behind the DTG coin and so much more.
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291: DTG Symposium 2023 with Erika Ramirez, Marjola Paloka, and Beatrice Robichaud
October 23rd, 2023 | 1 hr 5 mins
000%, 12th floor, 13, 3shape, beta, blender 4 dental, bollywood, cdt, dental, e.max, laboratory, magnets, master cup, podcast, pranks, technician, vdo, voices from the bench, young
This week starts the collection of epic conversation we got at the DTG Symposium 2023. We start off with Erika Ramirez and Marjola Paloka from G Dental and Beatrice Robichaud from Panthera.