Displaying items 1-10 of 15 in total of Voices from The Bench with the tag "canada".
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420: Seth Potter: Insight Into exocad Without Borders
April 13th, 2026 | 1 hr 12 mins
3d printing, analog workflow, automation, burnout, cad cam, cad designer, canada, clients, crown and bridge, dental, dental education, dental lab, dental mission trips, dental software, dental technician, dental technology, dentist father, digital dentistry, digital workflow, dominican republic, dropbox, efficiency optimization, entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship journey, exocad, exocad insights, faith, family influence, freelancing, full arch, hustle, implants, indeed strategy, innovation, lab equipment, lab growth, laboratory, location freedom, milling, missionary dentistry, outsourcing, outsourcing design, paraguay, productivity, remote design, remote work, sailboat life, sailing, scaling, scanning, self taught, startup, systems, technician, travel, voices from the bench, wetransfer, work life balance, workflow efficiency
This week, we talk with Seth Potter, a dental technician living a truly unconventional life—splitting his time between Canada and Paraguay while running a remote design business. From growing up on a sailboat and assisting on missionary dental trips to teaching himself digital workflows, Seth shares how he built a career with exocad rooted in freedom and efficiency. He also dives into the realities of scaling, burnout, and why creating systems—not just working harder—is the key to long-term success.
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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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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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385: IDS 2025 & exocad Part 10 with Pierre-Luc Duchesne, Dereck Donnelly, & Dr. Eimear O’Connell
August 11th, 2025 | 58 mins 12 secs
1on1, art, back to the future, box, canada, dental, ds core, education, exocad, exoplan, feedback, fp1, fusion, glaze, grandmother, hero, ids, invisalign, ireland, itero, laboratory, maple syrup, marketing, master cup, nexus, packaging, panther, phototgrammetry, prep, public, scan, scotland, sleep apnea, smile design, stain, surgical guides, technician, teeth, vita, voices from the bench
Back for the 10th time with conversations from the exocad booth at IDS 2025. First up are two people creating excellent customer experiences with Panthera, Pierre-Luc Duchesne and Dereck Donnelly. Then we meet the Irish dentist in Scotland, Dr. Eimear O’Connell who uses digital to give her patients the best treatment possible.
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362: Josie Schmitz-Burchartz is Marinating in Denture Goodness
March 3rd, 2025 | 1 hr 4 mins
analog, border molding, canada, cleaning, clear dentures, dental, dentures, edentulous, function, impressions, ivoclar, laboratory, marinade, newspapers, passionate, patient care, plaster, podcast, practical, practice, psychology, referrals, small town, suction, technician, university, voices from the bench, work life balance
This week, we sit down with Josie Schmitz-Burchartz, a dedicated denturist from British Columbia, who shares her incredible journey from cleaning her father's lab to running her own thriving practice. Josie discusses the importance of patient relationships, the challenges of the profession, and her commitment to providing exceptional care.
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339: The Jewel of Canadian Dentures with Jade Connors
September 23rd, 2024 | 1 hr 5 mins
all-on-x, authority, braces, canada, curious, dental, dentist, denturist, extrovert, generation, graphic art, laboratory, mental health, natural, nda, paper, photography, podcast, retread, speaker, synchronize swimming, technician, voices from the bench
This week we meet Canadian Denturist, Jade Connors. Jade talks about her journey from art to dental to eventually denturism. It took coming to terms of herself before she could eventually find the career that is both rewarding and satisfying.
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329: Three More From exocad Insights 2024 with Dr. Marcus White, Ashley Bryne, & Seth Potter
July 15th, 2024 | 1 hr 12 mins
application, canada, ceramist, certified, conversion, cow shed, crowns, dental, dental therapist, digital, dominican republic, drake dental lab, excel, exocad, focus, free hand implants, freelance, full arch, group, implant planning, implants, indeed, ios scans, itero, laboratory, laptop, loyalty, luggage, milling center, night guards, podcast, printing, remote, share concepts, spain, synergy, technician, test, together, trainer, vacation, voices from the bench, workflow
Back on the island of Mallorca Spain at exocad Insights 2024 with 3 fantastic conversations including Dr. Marcus White, Ashley Bryne, & Seth Potter
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309: Positive Reinforcement with John Rano
February 26th, 2024 | 1 hr 1 min
analog skills, attitude, canada, clear choice, conversion, dental, devalue, digital jig, discouraged, encouragement, feedback, florida, lab day, laboratory, love their job, podcast, scanners, self awareness, setting teeth, technician, train, traveling technician, voices from the bench
Meet John Rano. Son of a dental technician from Argentina. After working for his dad, John sets off on his own and eventually opens Unique Solutions Dental Lab specializing in full arch and he talks about helping to improve the next generation of technicians with a little positive reinforcement.
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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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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.