Displaying 9 items of Voices from The Bench with the tag "design".
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418: Lab Day Chicago 2026 Part 4 with Josh Williams, Savannah Elkins, Darin McCue, Vicki Thomas, and Carrie Ling
March 30th, 2026 | 1 hr 16 mins
3d printing, access, additive, burnout, business, buying group, cad, cam, chicago, collaboration, communication, community, competition, consulting, culture, dental, design, digital, durability, efficiency, evolution, flexibles, growth, hiring, industry, innovation, lab day, lab-to-lab, laboratory, leadership, management, materials, mentorship, outsourcing, ownership, partnerships, pricing, production, removable, rpd, sales, savvy, scalability, small labs, strategy, technician, technology, training, vendors, voices from the bench, workflows
Live from LMT Lab Day Chicago, Elvis and Barb capture three conversations that highlight the future of the lab industry. From Savannah and Josh’s fast-moving digital removable workflows at GPS Digital RPD, to Darin McCue’s blunt reminder that labs need strong leadership—not just great technicians and how Saleslift Consulting can help—and finally Vicki and Carrie’s push to empower smaller labs through smarter partnerships and buying power with Savvy Lab Solutions, every discussion points to the same truth: adapting isn’t optional.
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392: Jed Archibald is Impressed with Empress and So Much More
September 29th, 2025 | 1 hr 4 mins
dental, design, die, digital, education, family, finish, ivoclar, laboratory, lavender, management, margins, mechanical tension, mill, outsource, press, printing, rockstar and skittles, technician, testing, utah, utah valley dental lab, voices from the bench, wax, workarounds
Back again is Jed Archibald talking about minimal prepped restorations using Empress from Ivoclar, ZirCAD Prime, better printer resins, and so much more!
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381: IDS 2025 & exocad Part 6 with Björn Zäuner and Tillmann Steinbrecher
July 14th, 2025 | 1 hr 58 secs
articulation, bite, bottlenecks, ceo, code, customer feedback, dental, design, distributors, emotional engagement, exocad, growth, hand articulate, ids, jaw motion, laboratory, memes, milling center, open software, ortho lab, psychology, purple, remakes, researcher, smile design, student, technician, training, user interface, voices from the bench, xsnap
Barb and Elvis bring two powerhouse conversations from the exocad booth at IDS 2025 featuring two people that are changing digital dental design every day. Björn Zäuner tells the story of Bite-Finder and how it can lower remakes by up to 50% and then we chat with the CEO and co-creator of exocad, Tillmann Steinbrecher.
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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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360: Escape Some Workload with Dentscape AI - Ryan Axelson, Bill Chou, & Dr. Sylvie Liu
February 17th, 2025 | 1 hr 6 mins
ai, algorithm, amazon, artificial intelligence, aws, bridges, dental, design, drag and drop, ids, intuitive, lab day, laboratory, learning, margins, meta, podcast, preferences, solve problems, splints, staff shortages, supervised learning, technician, user friendly, voices from the bench
Let's get into what is and what makes AI work when designing crowns. This week brings us the people behind Dentscape AI. Bill Chou, Dr. Sylvie Liu, and Ryan Axelson all talk about what it takes to design 100 crowns in 10 minutes
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355: Jonny Jakson is Bleeding Purple with exocad and Evolve
January 13th, 2025 | 1 hr 3 mins
buffalo, cad/cam, collaboration, dental, dentist design, design, exocad, family, full arch, hard work, high school, innovative, ivotion, jig, lab day, laboratory, photogrammetry, podcast, purple, sameday, scanning, screws, sponge, super user, technician, training, uncle, updates, vhf mills, voices from the bench
This week we welcome Jonny Jakson, known as "Jonny Exocad," to explore his transformative journey in the dental tech industry. From his family's legacy in dental labs to his innovative work with Exocad, Johnny shares insights on blending traditional and digital workflows. Learn how he's empowering clinicians and training the next generation of dental techs.
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304: It's a Snowy Midnight Storm with MIYO and Amanda Carson
January 22nd, 2024 | 1 hr 1 min
artist, bleach, ceramics, colors, dental, design, dtg, emax, ghost, gym, ivoclar, lab day, laboratory, linen, midnight, miyo, ovens, pm7, podcast, self-taught, stain, structure, table clinic, teacher, technician, texture, voices from the bench, waxing, zircad prime
This week we are talking to MIYO expert, Amanda Carson. Amanda talks about her journey, learning about and eventually teaching others about MIYO, tells Elvis how to use it, and her plans to open her own lab very soon.
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283: Their Digital Design Evidence is Evident with Guy Menzies
August 28th, 2023 | 56 mins 20 secs
24 hour, ai, cad, crown and bridge, dedicated team, dental, dental share, design, evident, exocad, full arch, implants, invoicing, ios integration, lab-to-lab, laboratory, new zealand, partials, podcast, productivity, profile, removable, shining 3d, smile design, technician, trends, voices from the bench
This week is all about outsourcing digital designs with Evident. Guy Manzies, VP of Digital Design Services, comes on to talk about what it takes to handle all the different lab preferences with other 350 designers and keep constancy.
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119: An Alien To Believe In: Saro and Raffi Hatzakortzian from Alien Milling Technologies
July 6th, 2020 | 51 mins 37 secs
abutments, bars, copings, dental, design, free crown, laboratory, milling, podcast, printing, technician, vhf, voices from the bench
It's tough to do everything your clients are wanting yourself. Of course we try, but sometimes labs need to partner up with company to help them provide it all. This episode we talk with Saro and Raffi Hatzakortzian from Alien Milling Technologies to find out all about life in a milling center.