Displaying items 1-10 of 47 in total of Voices from The Bench with the tag "3shape".
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410: Helen Tanaka: From a Driver to the Bench and Knowing the Why
February 2nd, 2026 | 1 hr 8 mins
3shape, analog vs digital voices from the bench, arklign, attachments, bite blocks, bite records, case planning, case rescue, ce courses, chairside support, clearchoice, co-diagnostic, combination cases, continuing education, conversions, crown and bridge, dental, dental laboratory, dental materials, dental students, dental technician, dental technology, dentist collaboration, dentures, digital dentures, digital records, digital workflow, education, exocad, fundamentals, fundamentals first, fundamentals teaching, guided surgery, helen tanaka, implant courses, implant planning, implant restorations, lab driver, lab management, lab workflow, laboratory, locator attachments, mandibular advancement device, mentorship, microdental, model room, morphology, occlusion, orthodontics, overdentures, pathways, photogrammetry, quality control, removable prosthetics, removables, restorations, scanning, sleep appliances, sops, stackable guides, technical service, technician, technician training, training, troubleshooting, troubleshooting dentures, waxing copings, wire bending, workflow, zest
This week we talk with Helen Tanaka, a removable and implant specialist who started her career as a dental lab driver and worked her way into lab management, digital workflows, and clinical education. She shares her passion for dentures, occlusion, and implant restorations, emphasizing that technicians must understand the fundamentals and the why behind every step — especially in today’s digital world. The conversation covers guided surgery, digital dentures, doctor training, and the growing need for stronger removable education for both dentists and technicians.
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Episode 405: George Cowburn, Robert MacLeay, & Kaylee Jilbert: From Flask to Mill with Lab Pilot
December 29th, 2025 | 1 hr 7 mins
3shape, analog workflows, cadcam, canadian dentistry, chairside efficiency, cloud cam, custom pucks, dental, dental milling, dental technology, denture design, denturist, digital adoption, digital dentures, digital relines, digital study club, digital workflows, esther schwinning, exocad, fit accuracy, framework design, hybrid dentistry voices from the bench, implant overdentures, innovation, lab workflows, laboratory, labpilot, milled dentures, monoblock dentures, monolithic dentures, open mills, partial dentures, perfit, pmma acrylic, redon mills, reduced adjustments, removables, roland mills, scan and mill, technician, titanium frameworks, trad-digital
This episode features George Cowburn, along with denturist Robert MacLeay and digital designer Kaylee Jilbert, as they explore the evolution of digital dentures and the launch of Lab Pilot, a cloud-based CAM solution built to simplify removable workflows. They discuss blending analog fundamentals with digital design to achieve better-fitting dentures, titanium partials, and faster relines—without massive equipment investments. Ultimately, the conversation highlights how “trad-digital” workflows may finally make digital dentures practical, scalable, and accessible for everyday labs.
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394: Will Varda Has a Recipe for Digital Succuss (and Scones!)
October 13th, 2025 | 1 hr 5 mins
3shape, accordion, canada, community, conspiracy theories, cooking, cruise, dental, digital, education, fundamentals, fur purse, laboratory, lead dies, learning, mesh, nipples, obsessed, online, philosophy, rdt, recipe, scones, slow game, social media, speaker, technician, voices from the bench, wine, wing it, workarounds
This week we chat with Will Varda from British Columbia — a second-generation dental technician who grew up in his dad’s home lab and now leads the Dental Technicians Association of BC. Will shares incredible stories from his father’s days crafting crowns for Iranian royalty using goat-horn hammers to his own journey into digital dentistry, community building, and teaching others the “recipe” for digital design.
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377: IDS 2025 & exocad Part 3 with Dr. Manish Chhabra & Tobias Specht
June 16th, 2025 | 1 hr 25 secs
3shape, cad, cam, cerec, consulting, customer service, dental, dentist, design center, digident, digital dentures, dubai, emax, exocad, faster, follow up, hard reline, headset, ids, india, ivoclar, ivotion, laboratory, milling center, muscle memory, patients, prevention and care, printable wax, programill, quality, reline, repairing, scalability, scaling, speakers, technician, technology, training, unlearn, virtual reality, voices from the bench, vr
This week Elvis and Barb bring you two more conversation from the exocad booth at IDS 2025. First up is Dr. Manish Chhabra who ran a 300 person design center in India and is now training people with VR. Then we chat with Tobias Specht from Ivoclar all about what they have been working on, what’s new, and how they do a massive show in Germany.
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374: Dr. Andrew Turchin Has the Formula For a Smiling Success
May 26th, 2025 | 1 hr 4 mins
3shape, aesthetics, ceramics, communication, dental, designers, education, emax, exocad, high end, hiring, ivoclar, lab day, laboratory, neck pain, picky patients, porcelain, quality control, teaching, technician, voices from the bench
This week we meet Dr. Andrew Turchin from Aspen Colorado who has developed a mathematical equation that has allowed him and his in-office lab technicians to formulate a simple treatment that creates better smiles.
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370: From the 40th Lab Day 2025 Part 5 with Federico Manes, Mellissa Everett, Sandra Puurits, & Jay Work
April 28th, 2025 | 1 hr 14 mins
3shape, accent, all-on-x, bleach, bleep, building, capture, ceramist, chewing, dental, dentures, designing, exocad, extra, i do, jaw, k1, laboratory, marriage, movement, nature, optisplint, paperwork, tattoos, technician, time, visa, voices from the bench, working
Another trip back to the Ivoclar Ballroom at LMT Lab Day 2024 with Federico Manes from MODJAW, Mellissa Everett who works to lab jobs, and a love-lab story of Sandra Puurits & Jay Work.
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368: From the 40th Lab Day 2025 Part 4 with Eric Kukucka, Chelsea Homire, & Brittany Mitchell
April 14th, 2025 | 1 hr 11 mins
3d printing, 3shape, 4 days, adhesive, analog, art, aspen, associates, cerec, customized, d3 splint, dental, dentures, design, digital, donate, drawing, exocad, expanded function, facebook, front desk, implants, in-house, in-office, ivobase, laboratory, luciton, mesh mixer, partners, patients, protocols, quality, removable, signature elite, skill, sprint ray, st. louise, technician, the office, trade school, training, vhf mill, voices from the bench
We are back again in the Ivoclar Ballroom at Lab Day Chicago 2025. This week we talk to Eric Kukucka from Aspen Dental, Chelsea Homire a dental assistant turned lab tech, and Brittany Michell, a lab tech that does digital dentures in a 12 doctor group.
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366: Cal-Lab 2025 with Danny Yao & Dr. Russell Crockett about the OptiSplint
March 31st, 2025 | 1 hr 9 mins
3shape, accurate, alan banks, arizona, bring to market, caps, certified, dental, dentures, endo, exocad, fda, full arch masters, grammatry, implants, ios, laboratory, manufacturing, medical devices, outside, patent, photogrammetry, private label, prototype, roe dental lab, sales, sirona world, stackable, straumann, surgical guides, technician, tolerances, trial, ucla, university, verification jig, voices from the bench, waste
Coming to you from Germany with a recording we did at the Cal-Lab Association meeting in Chicago back in February. We are joined by Danny Yao & Dr. Russell Crockett. the creators of the OptiSplint scan jig, and they talk all about their workflow.
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358: Ryan McEachern Covers It All, From A to Zubler
February 3rd, 2025 | 58 mins 54 secs
3shape, bruxzir, cad/cam, ceramic, dental, development, exocad, faster, full arch, germany, glidewell, heating, hyperdent, laboratory, manufacturing, medit, milling machines, ovens, podcast, redon, research, sales, service, sintering, suction, technical support, technician, testing, voices from the bench
This week we talk to Ryan McEachern, who does sales, service, and support for all the things at Zubler USA. Ryan talks growing up with a technician father, getting into R&D at a LARGE lab, and some of the amazing equipment and materials that sets Zubler apart.
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354: John Isherwood & Pat Coon From Ivoclar Are Creating Memories For Lab Day Chicago 2025
January 6th, 2025 | 59 mins 22 secs
3shape, academy, analog, ballroom, chicago, dental, digital, digital dentures, education, emax, globally, instagram, ivoclar, kol, laboratory, lectures, lips, lmt, lounge, mascots, memory, panel, podcast, prime, programs, public relations, sprint ray, technical, technician, training, voices from the bench
Some great people from Ivoclar come on the podcast this week to talk about celebrating 20 years of e.max at this year's LMT Lab Day Chicago 2025. John Isherwood and Pat Coon tell their story, share some Ivoclar history, and give us all the details of what's happening in their ballroom during Lab Day.