Displaying 3 items of Voices from The Bench with the tag "community".
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396: Daniele Collard & Amber Rosema Kept Calm and Crafted On After a Tragedy
October 27th, 2025 | 1 hr 3 mins
alarm, analog, chairtime, community, compensation, didn't stop, digital, employee owned, ental, feedback, fire, great lab io, inspector, insurance, laboratory, laptop, loss, mental health, middle of the night, moving on, myron's dental lab, new systems, osha, overtime, phone call, rebuilding, safety, starting over, stronger, technician, togetherness, vacation, voices from the bench, working, zahn
When a devastating fire destroyed Denture Crafters, managers Amber Rosema and Daniele Collard refused to give up. In just days, they rallied their team, found a new space, and started rebuilding—proving that the dental lab community’s strength and heart can’t be burned down
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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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384: IDS 2025 & exocad Part 9 with Paul Dowling, Jacqueline Ffrench, & Thomas Baaske
August 4th, 2025 | 1 hr 2 mins
3d, 4 day work week, academy, ai, better life, business, community, dental, dentures, digital, efficient, exocad, feedback, generations, global, health, ids, inventory, ireland, ivotion, lab day chicago, laboratory, leadership, lean manufacturing, part time, polish, printing, removables, repair, small changes, soft reline, strength in the industry, technician, voices from the bench, well being, workflow, zirconzahn
Back again to a time in Germany when we recorded in the exocad booth at IDS 2025. This week we start with Paul Dowling & Jacqueline Ffrench who are doing amazing things in Ireland for the lab community. Then we meet Thomas Baaske from Ivoclar that tells us all about the new printed denture material, the inventory system, and Ivoclar at IDS.