Displaying all 10 Episode of Voices from The Bench with the tag “abutments”.
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399: Jordan Greenberg: The CAM Man Can Follow-Me to HyperDent
November 17th, 2025 | 1 hr 8 mins
abutments, amber, angulated, automation voices from the bench, bars, burrs, cad, calibration, cam, cnc, d5, datron, dental, denture, discs, exocad, feedrates, finishing, fixtures, follow-me, grinding, haas, hyperdent, hypermill, imagine, insertion-direction, ivoclar, ivotion, kevo, kinematics, laboratory, lava, machining, margins, materials, milling, multi-unit, nesting, pmma, post-processor, preforms, pucks, roland, roughing, screw-channel, spindle, stl, strategies, technician, templates, titanium, toolpacks, toolpaths, validation, zirconia
This episode features Jordan Greenberg of FOLLOW-ME! Technology, who breaks down the world of CAM software and explains how HyperDent powers mills, toolpaths, and new materials across the industry. Jordan shares his journey through dental milling, the challenges behind emerging workflows like angulated screws and milled dentures, and why CAM is the quiet engine that makes modern digital dentistry possible.
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391: Amy Helayel & Todd Hydock: Viva Las Locators with Zest
September 22nd, 2025 | 1 hr 7 mins
abutments, ce credits, cement, clinical help, communicate, conversions, cross train, david bowie, dental, education, expert, fixed, foot tattoo, housings, inserts, john madden, laboratory, las vegas, locator, milled, october 11, online, oring, sales, speaking, surgical, teaching, technician, van, voices from the bench
This week we talk to two past lab technicians that work for Zest Dental Solutions, Amy Helayel & Todd Hydock. They talk about the angled abutments, Locator Fixed, and the Technician Master's Program.
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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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287: The Family Behind the World Class Smile with Dr. Jill Morris, Dr. Burr Bakke, Dr. Cameron Johnson, Sydney Johnson, and Kelton Johnson
September 25th, 2023 | 1 hr 20 secs
abutments, airway, bed wetting, ce, ceramic, clinic, dental, emax, full mouth, holistic dentistry, implants, interface, laboratory, lvi, ortho, podcast, sleep, surgery, technician, voices from the bench, zirconia
A family that dentals together stays in dental together. This week Elvis and Barb talk to 3 dentists, another in dental school, and a technician that are all in the same practice and all related to each other. Join us as we chat with Dr. Jill Morris, Dr. Burr Bakke, Dr. Cameron Johnson, Sydney Johnson, and technician Kelton Johnson.
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277: Lab Day West Coast Stories Part 3 with Amber Rodriguez and Robert & Ardith Berger
July 17th, 2023 | 54 mins 29 secs
abutments, bars, dental, digital workflow, dipping wax, electronic waxer, handmade, implants, improving, ivoclar, kerr, lab day west, laboratory, packing porcelain, podcast, president of aaed, public speaking, table clinics, technician, tissue level, tri-lobe, voices from the bench
We are back with Ivoclar at the LMT Lab Day West where we talk to Amber Rodriguez from Preat and two living legends Robert & Ardith Berger talking about the legacy of Belle de St. Claire.
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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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222: Shaping the Future of the Dental Industry with Rune Fisker and 3Shape
June 27th, 2022 | 1 hr 5 mins
abutments, ai, appreciation, argen, copings, dental, glidewell, hearing aids, laboratory, podcast, procera, scanner, study group, technician, thanks, trios, voices from the bench, zahn
There are a handful of different design software in our industry, but the biggest has got to be 3shape. (Start the debate here) Rune Fisker has been on the team since the beginning and has seen digital dentistry change and grow. Rune talks about the past, present, and future of all things 3shape.
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194: Whipping it up at Whip Mix Part 3: Rich Green & Husam Sahwil
December 13th, 2021 | 1 hr 32 secs
abutments, balls, beyond, dental, full arch, implants, iowa, laboratory, lebanon, podcast, puck, russia, screws, technician, voices from the bench, zirconia, zirconium
Elvis & Barb are back at the Whip Mix Digital Forum from the Preat booth talking to Rich Green from B&D Dental Technologies and Husam Sahwil from DDS Dental Lab. Great conversations from a great event.
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126: When Everything is in a Roe: B.J. Kowalski from Roe Dental Lab
August 24th, 2020 | 53 mins 42 secs
abutments, all-on-x, argen, cal lab, chairside, chrome, conversions, dental, implants, inventory control, laboratory, podcast, printed temporaries, technician, voices from the bench
This week brings us B.J. Kowalski from Roe Dental Lab. B.J. talks about getting into the business, what's going on at Roe, guided surgery, implant part inventory, in-house dentist, an interesting chairside conversion "match" system, and so much more. It's a look into a very progressive dental lab.
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119: An Alien To Believe In: Saro and Raffi Hatzakortzian from Alien Milling Technologies
July 6th, 2020 | 51 mins 37 secs
abutments, bars, copings, dental, design, free crown, laboratory, milling, podcast, printing, technician, vhf, voices from the bench
It's tough to do everything your clients are wanting yourself. Of course we try, but sometimes labs need to partner up with company to help them provide it all. This episode we talk with Saro and Raffi Hatzakortzian from Alien Milling Technologies to find out all about life in a milling center.