Displaying items 1-10 of 11 in total of Voices from The Bench with the tag "abutments".
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417: Lab Day Chicago 2026 Part 3 with Frederic Rapp, Casey Baldwin, & Darin Lockaby
March 23rd, 2026 | 1 hr 12 mins
3shape, 510k, abs, abutments, aesthetics, ai, ai assistant, ai in dentistry, alerts, analytics, api, australia, automation, automation tools, ballroom, barb, blanks, bob cohen, business development, calibration, cam software, canada, case tracking, casey baldwin, ceramart, chairside, characterization, collaboration, communication, consolidation, cost of acquisition, craftsmanship, cross-selling, crown ceram, custom abutments, customer behavior, customer retention, customer service, darren lockerby, dashboards, data, database, dental, dental community, dental lab, dental technician, dental wings, des, digital dentistry, digital dentures, digital workflow, dry milling, education, efficiency, elvis, emax, engineering, entrepreneurship, europe labs, exocad, fda compliance, field work, fixed, follow-up, frédéric rapp, future tech, global industry, greatlab, hyperdent, icortica, implant workflow, implants, in-house production, industry trends, innovation, insights, integration, intraoral scanner, ios, ivoclar, ivotion, lab day energy, lab efficiency, lab growth, lab life, lab management system, labday, laboratory, leadership, live podcast, lms, magic touch, manufacturing, margins, materials, mechanical engineering, milling, networking, notes, notifications, oem, onboarding, open implants, opportunity tracking, outsourcing, partnership, plug and play, pm7, pnp, price pressure, private equity, productivity, profitability, programill 7, quality control, rapid prototyping, real-time data, relationships, removable, reporting, reps, revenue growth, rob nazel, sales strategy, scalability, scaling, scheduling, software, stock abutments, tasks, team building, technician, technology, tie bases, training, turnaround time, upselling, us labs, validation, voice input, voices from the bench, wet milling, workflow, workflow control, zirconia
Live from the Ivoclar Ballroom at Lab Day 2026, Elvis and Barb talk with Frederic Rapp about his journey from a small family lab to scaling a 150-person operation and now helping labs unlock their data with icortica. Then Casey Baldwin (Ivoclar) and Darin Lockaby (DESS) join to break down their new plug-and-play workflow for milling FDA-compliant abutments in-house—giving labs more control and better margins.
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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.