Displaying Episode 1 - 10 of 41 in total of Voices from The Bench with the tag “dentures”.
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404: Rik Jacobs & Jess Gray: Gradient Dentures and Grit: Two Conversations from Lab Fest 2025
December 22nd, 2025 | 1 hr 12 mins
3d printing, all-on-x, analog workflow, dental, dentures, digital dentures, digital workflow, exocad, facial scanning, hard-soft appliances, in-house lab, instarisa, lab growth, lab ownership, laboratory, multi-color, multi-material, night guards, pmma, production dentistry, technician, technician education, voices from the bench, voxel printing, zirconia
Live from NOLA Lab Fest, we talk with Rik Jacobs of Novenda Technologies about a game-changing, production-scale 3D printer that can print full dentures and hard/soft appliances in true multi-material, multi-color—without supports and with massive throughput. Then we catch up with Jess Gray, who shares her journey from front desk to running a fast-growing, digitally driven in-house lab, blending analog and digital workflows, facial scanning, All-on-X, and leadership lessons from the bench up.
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403: Live from Lab Fest 2025: Duff Wilson and the Importance of Good Vendor Relationships with Aidite
December 15th, 2025 | 1 hr 18 mins
aidite, cad/cam, crown and bridge, dental, dental laboratory, dental technology, dentures, design services, digital dentistry, full arch, implant restorations, lab associations, lab efficiency, lab ownership, laboratory, lean workflow, mentorship, milling center, relationship, relationships, removables, support, technician, technician education, voices from the bench, zirconia
Duff Wilson shares his unconventional journey through dental technology—from getting thrown into high-volume removables at a major lab to building a lean, relationship-driven lab that’s thrived for over two decades. Along the way, he breaks down why mentorship, smart workflows, and trusting the right people and products matter more than hype, trends, or chasing volume in today’s dental lab world.
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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.
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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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370: From the 40th Lab Day 2025 Part 5 with Federico Manes, Mellissa Everett, Sandra Puurits, & Jay Work
April 28th, 2025 | 1 hr 14 mins
3shape, accent, all-on-x, bleach, bleep, building, capture, ceramist, chewing, dental, dentures, designing, exocad, extra, i do, jaw, k1, laboratory, marriage, movement, nature, optisplint, paperwork, tattoos, technician, time, visa, voices from the bench, working
Another trip back to the Ivoclar Ballroom at LMT Lab Day 2024 with Federico Manes from MODJAW, Mellissa Everett who works to lab jobs, and a love-lab story of Sandra Puurits & Jay Work.
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369: Cal-Lab 2025 Part 2 with Liam Johns, Tom Wiand, Scott Lowrey, and Matt Cushing
April 21st, 2025 | 1 hr 8 mins
acquisitions, aox, arizona, bego, cut, delivery driver, dental, dentures, digital partials, european league, father, finisher, fires, football, framework, full arch, hiring, ivobase, laboratory, lucitone, manager, milled dentures, nfl, phone, photogrammetry, printed flexible, processor, prosthodontist, public speaking, sales, smart denture conversion, steelers, technical support, technician, voices from the bench
We are back with a packed episode from the 2025 Cal-Lab Association Meeting. First up is Liam Johns from Derby Dental Laboratory, Tom Wiand & Scott Lowrey from Wiand Dental Lab, and Matt Cushing from First Choice Dental Lab.
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368: From the 40th Lab Day 2025 Part 4 with Eric Kukucka, Chelsea Homire, & Brittany Mitchell
April 14th, 2025 | 1 hr 11 mins
3d printing, 3shape, 4 days, adhesive, analog, art, aspen, associates, cerec, customized, d3 splint, dental, dentures, design, digital, donate, drawing, exocad, expanded function, facebook, front desk, implants, in-house, in-office, ivobase, laboratory, luciton, mesh mixer, partners, patients, protocols, quality, removable, signature elite, skill, sprint ray, st. louise, technician, the office, trade school, training, vhf mill, voices from the bench
We are back again in the Ivoclar Ballroom at Lab Day Chicago 2025. This week we talk to Eric Kukucka from Aspen Dental, Chelsea Homire a dental assistant turned lab tech, and Brittany Michell, a lab tech that does digital dentures in a 12 doctor group.
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367: From the 40th Lab Day 2025 Part 3 with Christopher Hernandez, Greg Everett, & Joe Braxton
April 7th, 2025 | 1 hr 6 mins
allonx, automotive, dental, dentures, devices, field repair, fixable, instagram, installation, laboratory, mexico, milling center, oem parts, organic growth, pm7, posting, remote help, removables, shipping, sleep apnea, spindle, st. louis, star struck, tcs, technician, tijuana, training, voices from the bench, warranty
This week we bring you another 3 conversations that we got while in the Ivoclar Ballroom at LMT Lab Day Chicago 2025. First up is Mexico trained dental technician Christopher Hernandez, then Roland mill repairer Greg Everett with Denteon, and then we wrap up the episode with the guy behind all the Ivoclar Mill installation, training, and service, Joe Braxton.
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366: Cal-Lab 2025 with Danny Yao & Dr. Russell Crockett about the OptiSplint
March 31st, 2025 | 1 hr 9 mins
3shape, accurate, alan banks, arizona, bring to market, caps, certified, dental, dentures, endo, exocad, fda, full arch masters, grammatry, implants, ios, laboratory, manufacturing, medical devices, outside, patent, photogrammetry, private label, prototype, roe dental lab, sales, sirona world, stackable, straumann, surgical guides, technician, tolerances, trial, ucla, university, verification jig, voices from the bench, waste
Coming to you from Germany with a recording we did at the Cal-Lab Association meeting in Chicago back in February. We are joined by Danny Yao & Dr. Russell Crockett. the creators of the OptiSplint scan jig, and they talk all about their workflow.
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365: From the 40th Lab Day 2025 Part 2 with Julia Glancey, Shavit Kohen, & Christine McClymont
March 24th, 2025 | 1 hr 11 mins
15:15, ai, aligners, all-on-x, ambition, assistant, booth, busy, dental, dentures, exocad, experts, full arches, guided smiles, hader, insights 2026, laboratory, love, manager, medit, new york, owner, phrozen, planning, qualified, realguide, remote, school, self-taught, spark, stackable, technician, treatment planning, voices from the bench
Join us this week for another collection of conversations from the Ivoclar Ballroom at Lab Day Chicago 2025. First up is Julia Glancey from the UK that is a remote designer and Shavit Kohen who owns a lab and is still in lab school! Then we get an update from Christine McClymont from exocad all about IDS!