Displaying items 1-10 of 21 in total of Voices from The Bench with the tag "communication".
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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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401: Seth Smith and Ryan Alexander: From Chaos to Clicks: The GreatLab.io Upgrade
December 1st, 2025 | 1 hr 6 mins
ai mapping, automation, bad scans, booking, capacity planning, case management, cloud-based, communication, crm, data migration, dental, dental lab, digital dentistry, digital workflow, doctor communication, ds core, efficiency, greatlab.io, integrations, itero, lab operations, lab software, laboratory, lms, medit, onboarding, paperless, production tracking, scan quality, scanhub, shipping integration, task management, technician, technician workflow, vitality dental arts, voices from the bench
Seth Smith from Greatlab.io joins the podcast to share how his team built a modern, automation-driven lab management system that streamlines booking, communication, scanning, and workflow for labs of all sizes. Ryan Alexander from Vitality Dental Arts explains how switching to GreatLab dramatically reduced calls, sped up case processing, improved technician efficiency, and transformed their day-to-day operations almost overnight.
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Episode 375: IDS 2025 & exocad Part 1 with Hajir Shamil, Daniel Portal, Gerson Prada, & Dr. Diogo Viegas
June 2nd, 2025 | 1 hr 5 mins
ai, all-on-x, approval, bite international, burnt out, communication, dental, dentist, designer, digital, exocad, exoplan, face scanning, firing doctors, florida, ids, implants, ios, laboratory, malo clinic, miyo, paint a picture, partials, printers, single visit, social pressure, south america, spanish, teaching, technician, traffic, utah, voices from the bench
We start the run of conversations we got while in the exocad booth at IDS 2025 in Cologne, Germany. This week features Hajir Shamil from Iraq, Daniel Portal & Gerson Prada from the USA, and Dr. Diogo Viegas from Portugal.
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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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373: Paolo Lubrano & Tiffany Schreppler Agree That RealGuide is REAL GOOD
May 19th, 2025 | 1 hr 5 mins
affordable, bar, bone reduction, cad, collaboration, communication, demo, dental, fixed, guided surgery, hands on, ibar, implants, instructional videos, lab sales, laboratory, planning, radiology, real good, technician, training, voices from the bench
There are implant planning software and there are restorative design software. Did you know that there is an excellent one that does both and is affordable called RealGuide. Paolo Lubrano from Implant Concierge and Tiffany Schreppler from ZimVie come on to talk about this versatile and powerful software.
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371: Robert Kreyer & Dr. Stephen Wagner Want Better Dentures Not Faster
May 5th, 2025 | 1 hr 4 mins
better, collaboration, communication, craft, data, dental, dentures, digital, e-human, fundamentals, keep it simple, laboratory, measurements, not faster, polyjet, printing, proof of concept, records, set ups, shrinkage, sucks, technician, technique, voices from the bench, white
With the shift to digital dentures in our industry, two leaders in removables are advocating that the fundamentals be used as we move forward. Robert Kreyer & Dr. Stephen Wagner want to make sure that we are making better dentures and not worrying about making them faster.
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364: 7th Year Anniversary: International Style with Renata Budny, Sevastiani Perselis, and Rebca Nikedemos
March 17th, 2025 | 1 hr 7 mins
acrylic, coda, communication, covid, dental, digital, ethiopia, externship, family, first, food, greece, laboratory, mistakes, new york, outsource, patience, patients, semester, smell, starting over, technician, voices from the bench, workflow
Celebrate 7 years of the podcast as we welcome back our very first guest again, Renata Budny. As a teacher at CUNY, Renata brings with her two international students, Sevastiani Perselis from Greece and Rebca Nikedemos from Ethiopia.
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347: A Stack of Nerds Talking About Surgical Guides with Alan Banks from GuidedSMILE
November 18th, 2024 | 1 hr 5 mins
angles screw chambers, blue sky bio, bone reduction, cbct, chairside, chrome, clicks, communication, conversion, custom mua, dental, dme, dual scan, fda, geometry, guided, implants, laboratory, metal printing, nerd, oem, podcast, printer, roe, sleeveless, smart denture conversion, stl, surgical guides, technician, treatment planning, university, voices from the bench
What happens when two implant nerds talk about stackable surgical guides? Well find out as Elvis has a chat with Alan Banks from GuidedSMILE about how they use RealGuide to streamline the workflow and obtain more predictable results.
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346: Easing the Pain of Case Entry with Randy Berry & Jessica Wallen
November 11th, 2024 | 1 hr 2 mins
72 hours, call, code books, communication, dental, departments, enty, hold, ios, laboratory, metal printers, outsourcing, partials, phone, photos, podcast, printing, production software, remote, shades, sick days, technical, technician, ups, voices from the bench, waiting
This week we talk to Randy Berry and Jessica Wallen who have taken on the task of doing remote case entry and invoicing for labs. With their company Certaineed Consulting, they can log in the incoming work while you concentrate on doing the incoming work.
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341: Higher Quality Without the Higher Price with Dr. Ben Kellum
October 7th, 2024 | 1 hr 1 min
affordable, career, communication, dental, dental school, donations, drug recovery, education, exocad, ideal treatment, implants, iv sedation, laboratory, megagen, mill, nonprofit, podcast, residency, technician, texting, university of oklahoma, voices from the bench, workflow
This week we meet Dr. Ben Kellum, Co-Owner of Transcend Dental Clinic, a Christian Based Clinic in Huntsville, Alabama focused on Full Arch Implant Dentistry for the less fortunate without compromising quality of treatment.