Displaying 5 items of Voices from The Bench with the tag "bruxzir".
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442: Michael Wandling: The Long Road to CDT of the Year
September 14th, 2026 | 1 hr 12 mins
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This week on Voices From the Bench, we finally sit down with the 2025 CDT of the Year, Mike Wandling! Mike shares his journey from starting as a dental technician in 2001 to becoming an educator, Master CDT, examiner, NBC Board member, lab owner, and now Operations Manager at Summit Horizon Dental Laboratory. We talk certification, education, the future of the CDT program, his “A-Team” partnership with Barb, and what it means to give back to the dental laboratory industry.
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358: Ryan McEachern Covers It All, From A to Zubler
February 3rd, 2025 | 58 mins 54 secs
3shape, CAD/CAM, bruxzir, 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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344: Stephenie Who? with Stephenie Goddard the CEO of Glidewell Laboratories
October 28th, 2024 | 1 hr 2 mins
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This week we get to meet the person that took over as CEO of Glidewell Laboratories 3 years ago, Stephenie Goddard. Stephenie talks about her 18 year history with the company, helping them grow in technicians and technology, and creating their leadership program that has allowed the lab to scale to the size it is today.
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235: All About Zirconia (and other big words) with Dr. Rella Christensen & Jay Emirzian
September 26th, 2022 | 1 hr 4 mins
b&d technologies, bruxzir, burs, cement, clinical studies, dental, fractures, glidewell, laboratory, mills, podcast, stain and glaze, technician, tetragonal, trac research, voices from the bench, zubler usa
Sure zirconia is the most used material in most dental labs. But do you really know about zirconia? If you thought you did, you will find out you probably didn't as we learn all about it with Dr. Rella Christensen and Jay Emirzian.
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141: The Art of Constant Change: Jim Glidewell CDT
December 7th, 2020 | 1 hr 6 mins
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It's not very often you get to chat with the owner of the biggest dental lab. Jim Glidewell comes on to talk about going from a one-person dental lab to over 5,000 technicians, the development of their materials and products, advertising, his personal battle with COVID, and his new book "Constant Change".