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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274: Lab Day West Coast Stories Part 1 with Calvin Song and Sevan Pulurian
June 26th, 2023 | 59 mins 49 secs
24/7, ada, ai, business development, cal-lab, cosmetic, custom tray, dental, dental lab network, diagnostic wax ups, facebook, grassroots, laboratory, milling center, model, model builder express, night guards, podcast, sales tax, support, technician, voices from the bench
Back in May, Elvis and Barb took the podcast to LMT Lab Day West thanks to our good friends at Ivoclar. This week we talk to Calvin Song from Creodent about New York wanting to tax veneers and Sevan Pulurian who updates us on all things 3shape.
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273: Showing Some Love to the Model Room with Marsha Mais
June 19th, 2023 | 1 hr 16 secs
appreciate, assistance, cdt, dental, distilled water, externship, hygiene, laboratory, ortho, podcast, pro pay, removable, technician, toaster oven, vaccine, vacuum mixer, voices from the bench
Let's all show some love to our friends in the model room! This week Marsha Mais joins the podcast to talk about her journey to a dental laboratory, some nice tips and tricks, and how we all need to stop and appreciate those that do model work.
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272: A Custom Partnership for All the Abutments with Ruben Arebalo & Jon Barnes
June 12th, 2023 | 1 hr 5 mins
510k, abutments, analogs, cad, clear aligners, crystal ultra, dental, digital library, fda, identification, implant id, implants, laboratory, locators, mill machines, overdentures, podcast, scan bodies, tech calls, technician, temporary cylinders, ti bases, toothpaste, voices from the bench
Wanting to do custom abutments in your lab? Save some time and money? Find out how Ruben Arebalo from Preat and Jon Barnes from Digital Dental have partnered up to bring you an FDA compliant workflow that will keep your lab milling.
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Episode 271: A Chat about the Craft of Making a Crozat with Jay Work III
June 5th, 2023 | 1 hr 10 secs
alf appliance, apartment, bird beak pliers, crib, dental, hydrogen, lab, laboratory, orthodontics, palate expanders, podcast, solder, sprint ray, teaching, technician, temporary anchor devices, voices from the bench, wire bending
Owning a lab that makes only one appliance, Jay R. Work III is only one of four technicians in the US to make the Crozat device. Hear the story of him discovering it, what a Crozat is, and how it fits into a crowded ortho world.
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270: Pay Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain with Daniel Hassler
May 29th, 2023 | 48 mins 3 secs
air force, cdt, dental, denturist, dream sheet, ears, fivr, gro3x, high end, ivoclar, jimmy johns, lab, lab day chicago, laboratory, manual, marketing lab next, maverick, noses, podcast, post graduate, remote testing, technician, voices from the bench, wizard of oz
This week Voices From the Bench talks to the owner of Wizards of the Bench, Daniel Hassler. Daniel talks about learning in the Airforce, working in a few labs in a few states and eventually opening a lab that is busy right out of the gate.
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269: Wrapping It All Up at the Ivoclar Ballroom From Lab Day Chicago with Susan van Kinsbergen, Neal Allen, Julio Munoz, Zack Wojdan
May 22nd, 2023 | 1 hr 4 mins
ai design, all-on-4, artistic, builder, carbon, ceramics, chairside, conversions, dani, daughter, dental, drivers, flexible, glaze, high end, hybrids, immediate load, implants, issaquah, ivoclar, knight, lab, lab day chicago, laboratory, leadership, manager, milling, miyo, opaque, open door, pfm, photography, podcast, printing, removables, screws, shipping, technician, teeth, thanksgiving, voices from the bench, welu, zimvie
Elvis and Barb wrap up all the amazing recordings from the Ivoclar Ballroom at Lab Day Chicago with Susan van Kinsbergen, Neal Allen, Julio Munoz, and Zack Wojdan
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268: Inspiration from the Ivoclar Ballroom at Lab Day Chicago with Katie Rinaldo, Mandy Arena, Jen Ludwig, & Jim Collis
May 15th, 2023 | 1 hr 6 mins
ada, back, bill, caring, covid, cry, dental, denturist association, emotional, facebook, friends, funding, getting better, give, grassroots, healing, illinois, ivoclar, lab, lab day chicago, laboratory, ladies of the mill, podcast, proud, removables, representative, school, speaking, st. louis, surgery, technician, voices from the bench
Back again with more amazing conversations we got while in the Ivoclar Ballroom at LMT Lab Day Chicago 2023. This time we talk to Katie Rinaldo and Mandy Arena who are trying to make Denturism legal in Illinois, CDT of the Year Jen Ludwig, and seasoned educator Jim Collis.
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267: Celebrating Traditions Digitally From the Ivoclar Ballroom at Lab Day Chicago with Chet Spivey and Esther Schwenning
May 8th, 2023 | 1 hr 5 mins
100 years, asiga, beer, bleaching, bonding, brewery, buffalo, canada, dental, dentures, denturism, denturist, digital, education, emax, insurance, ivoclar, ivotion, lab, lab day chicago, laboratory, las vegas institute, lips, marketing, northern lights, partials, pm7, podcast, printing, suction, technician, travel agent, variolink, vivascan, voices from the bench
This week we are back in the Ivoclar Ballroom at LMT Lab Day Chicago 2023 with two more conversations. First up is Senior Vice President of Sales for Ivoclar, Chet Spivey. Then we chat with Esther Schwenning, the rock star denturist from Canada.
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266: Living It Up From the Ivoclar Ballroom at Lab Day Chicago with Alan Banks, Millie Tang, and Monica Buchanan
May 1st, 2023 | 1 hr 5 mins
ace, asc, chrome, dental, duplicate, education day, family, fraternity, geometry, intraoral scanner, ivoclar, lab, lab day chicago, laboratory, lucky, medit, mimosa, multilayer, nobel procera, podcast, prime, scan bodies, screw, solder, success, surgical guide, technician, trios, verification jig, voices from the bench, weather balloon, wisconsin, zygo
Back in the days of snow, we recorded in the Ivoclar Ballroom at LMT Lab Day Chicago. This week we bring you Alan Banks from Roe Dental Lab, Millie Tang from Vsmile, and Monica Buchanan an ortho CDT.
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265: More From the Ivoclar Ballroom at Lab Day Chicago with Tobias Specht, Eiron Simmons, Olivia Davis, Crystal Heung, Christina Heaslip, Dora Rodrigues
April 24th, 2023 | 1 hr 4 mins
blue block, boothless, church, conversions, dental, diastemas, digital dentures, disruption, emax, family, first time, laboratory, liechtenstein, lips, masquerade party, mill, outsourcing, p7, passion, podcast, pool party, portugal, press, product manager, public speaking, removables, technician, voices from the bench
We are back in the Ivoclar Ballroom at LMT Lab Day Chicago 2023 with 4 more conversations! We talk to Tobias Specht from Ivoclar, Eiron Simmons and Olivia Davis from Oaks Dental Design, Crystal Heung from Sunmc Dental Lab in China, and Christina Heaslip from Digital Dental Laboratory and Dora Rodrigues from ID Dental Lab.
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264: Dancing in the Ivoclar Ballroom at Lab Day Chicago with Patric Frank, Jess Mashewske, and Randi & Scott James
April 17th, 2023 | 59 mins 25 secs
3d printing, 3shape, architect, bench test, bleaching, construction, customer service, dental, dso, electronics, german, hair salon, heart, innovation, ivoclar, laboratory, moving, new york, podcast, removable, technician, training, voices from the bench
We bring you 3 great conversations from the Ivoclar Grand Ballroom at LMT Lab Day Chicago 2023. We talk to Patric Frank, the CMO for Ivoclar. Then we chat to Jess Mashewske who runs a lab for a small DSO, and finish up with the tradition of talking to Randi and Scott James.
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263: Teaching the Right Things for the Right Reasons with Allie Williamson at Lab Day Chicago 2023
April 10th, 2023 | 1 hr 1 min
anatomy, artistic, cdt, chicago, dental, education, florida, function, group, ivoclar, knowledge, lab, lab day, laboratory, learning, onsight training, ottawa, passion, periodontist, podcast, ptc, solo, study club, support, technician, trainer, training, voices from the bench
We begin our collection of conversations we recorded in the Ivoclar Ballroom at LMT Lab Day Chicago 2023 with Allie Williamson. Allie joins us to talk about what she’s been up to, and her new, exciting, and MUCH NEEDED training program called DLT Training and Education.
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262: 78 Going On 40 with Brian Binnie
April 3rd, 2023 | 1 hr 3 mins
ai, canada, cerec, curing box, dental, engineer, flex strength, hobby, inlab, ivoclar, laboratory, passionate, podcast, printing, resings, retirement, secret service, sirona, technician, vita, voices from the bench, walmart, williams gold
This week we catch up with a gentleman that has been around in the industry for years, being a part of many introductions of pivotal materials. Brian Binnie talks about his journey from growing up in a lab to his new role at Pac-Dent.
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261: A CDT of DLT at LSU with Tracy Graham
March 27th, 2023 | 1 hr 49 secs
anatomy, balance, cdt, college, courses, dental, dentures, education, exocad, family, kids, lab, lab day chicago, laboratory, lsu, new orleans, ortho, podcast, rg, technician, teeth, vision 21, voices from the bench
This week Elvis and Barb talk to current dental lab student from LSU, Tracy Graham. Tracy talks about the program, building her life after school, juggling that with a family, and why she loves teeth so much.
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260: The Students Become the Teachers with Renata Budny and Oscar & Natalie Galvis
March 20th, 2023 | 1 hr 5 mins
2nd generation, dental, dentures, family, females, full arch, implants, laboratory, lecturing, part time, podcast, removables, students, technician, videos, voices from the bench, work/life
As we celebrate 5 straight years of doing the podcast, Elvis and Barb welcome back the first guest Renata Budny from the New York City College of Technology Restorative Dentistry program and past students and current adjunct professors Oscar and Natalie Galvis.
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259: You Have the Right to Remain in a Digital Restoration with Raul Garcia
March 13th, 2023 | 1 hr 1 min
3 shape, 3d scanning, animation, blue sky, cad/cam, cop, dental, exocad, laboratory, pixar, podcast, research, security, self-teaching, surgical planning, teaching, technician, voices from the bench
This week brings us police officer turned dental technician, Raul Garcia. Raul has an interesting path that took him from patrolling the streets to doing the digital work for the students at the University of Oklahoma School of Dentistry.