Displaying items 1-10 of 46 in total of Voices from The Bench with the tag "digital".
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400: Joe Young - Hail to the Young: The Presidential Edition
November 24th, 2025 | 1 hr 9 mins
after school, cam, cdt, community engagement, dental, dental wings, digital, family, family history, fixed, hawley retainers, hong kong, laboratory, legacy, milling, moscow mule, nadl, nobel, ortho, parking, philadelphia, president, rebrand, receiving, shipping, spare room, super fan, technician, terms, thumb sucking, trade in, training, vendor, voices from the bench, wire bending, workforce, young
Barb and Elvis sit down with longtime friend and NADL President Joe Young, who shares his journey from growing up in his family’s small ortho lab to leading a full-service digital lab and serving the national community. The episode dives into family legacy, industry evolution, leadership, and plenty of classic VFTB fun.
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398: Jonathan Bourke Went From Six Strings to Six Implants
November 10th, 2025 | 1 hr 6 mins
all-on-x, analog, asiga max, blender, demo, dentafab sega, denturist, digital, driver, ds world, ental, exocad, fiduciary markers, full arch masters, guitar, hands on, hybrids, hyperdent, implant pathways, in-office, ios scan, jazz, laboratory, megagen, micronmapper, miyo, model work, optisplint, ownership, photogrammetry, sin, technician, treatment planning, voices from the bench
This week, we chat with Jonathan Burke, a former jazz guitarist who traded music gigs for milling machines. Hear how he went from pouring models to running a full-arch digital lab, mastering exocad, photogrammetry, and MiYO along the way.
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397: Marc Rondeau: The Aussie Who is Making Teeth, Teaching Techs, and Spinning Records
November 3rd, 2025 | 1 hr 7 mins
accident, analog, associations, australia, car crash, college, crown and bridge, died, digital, digital sold, dj, ental, exam, exocad, fixed, freelance, giving back, internship, laboratory, london, nigh club, north shore, outsource, rehab, school, skill, teacher registration, technician, tumor, voices from the bench, volunteers, vp, walking
This week, Elvis and Barb head Down Under to chat with Marc Rondeau, a Sydney-based dental technician, educator, and DJ who’s spent decades shaping the future of dental technology in Australia. From his early days in Harley Street to his passion for teaching and advocating for the profession, Marc shares an incredible story of resilience, innovation, and rhythm—both in and out of the lab
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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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393: Ed Molina is Helping Everyone Save Face with a Facially Driven Digital Workflow
October 6th, 2025 | 1 hr 1 min
assistant, dental, digital, education, employees, exocad, facial scanner, full arch, grammetry, kois, laboratory, mentors, patients, photogrammetry, photos, protocol, shining 3d, teaching, technician, tough love, training, troubleshooting, voices from the bench, zircon zahn
Ed Molina shares his journey from working retail to becoming a leader in digital dentistry. Guided by mentors and hands-on experience, he helped pioneer facially driven workflows and now teaches clinicians how to integrate digital design and technology into their practices. Ed discusses mentorship, innovation, and the challenges of bringing digital solutions to everyday dentistry.
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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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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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378: Brandi Nowak & Marybeth Starr Are Bringing a Festival to Labs
June 23rd, 2025 | 1 hr 4 mins
bag, branding, brother, computers, darby, dental, dental tech supply, digital, disney, dsl family feud, evening events, exocad, family, fun, ghost tour, harvest, hurricane, ids, jazz, laboratory, ladies of the mill, laughter, legacy, nowak, peddler, psychiatrist, remote work, river boat, roadshow, tae kwon do, technician, telesales, vendor, voices from the bench, zahn
This week, Elvis and Barb talk to the ladies from Nowak Dental Supplies that is bringing to life NOLA Lab Fest. Brandi Nowak and Marybeth Starr talk about this amazing event happening November 7-8 in New Orleans.
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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.