Displaying Episode 1 - 10 of 66 in total of Voices from The Bench with the tag “exocad”.
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Episode 405: George Cowburn, Robert MacLeay, & Kaylee Jilbert: From Flask to Mill with Lab Pilot
December 29th, 2025 | 1 hr 7 mins
3shape, analog workflows, cadcam, canadian dentistry, chairside efficiency, cloud cam, custom pucks, dental, dental milling, dental technology, denture design, denturist, digital adoption, digital dentures, digital relines, digital study club, digital workflows, esther schwinning, exocad, fit accuracy, framework design, hybrid dentistry voices from the bench, implant overdentures, innovation, lab workflows, laboratory, labpilot, milled dentures, monoblock dentures, monolithic dentures, open mills, partial dentures, perfit, pmma acrylic, redon mills, reduced adjustments, removables, roland mills, scan and mill, technician, titanium frameworks, trad-digital
This episode features George Cowburn, along with denturist Robert MacLeay and digital designer Kaylee Jilbert, as they explore the evolution of digital dentures and the launch of Lab Pilot, a cloud-based CAM solution built to simplify removable workflows. They discuss blending analog fundamentals with digital design to achieve better-fitting dentures, titanium partials, and faster relines—without massive equipment investments. Ultimately, the conversation highlights how “trad-digital” workflows may finally make digital dentures practical, scalable, and accessible for everyday labs.
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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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402: Blake Roney & Patrick Dewey Are Mapping the Future of Full Arch in Microns with S.I.N.
December 8th, 2025 | 1 hr 22 mins
accuracy, cad, cam, cbct, centering, ct-alignment voices from the bench, dental, dental-labs, digital-dentistry, exocad, fitcheck, full-arch, implants, innovation, intraoral-scan, laboratory, micronmapper, milling, multi-unit, passive-fit, photogrammetry, prosthetics, rmes, same-day, scan-bodies, sin, technician, tissue-mapper, verification, versalis, workflows, zirconia
Blake Roney and Patrick Dewey from S.I.N. return to break down their newest innovations in implants, photogrammetry, and full-arch digital workflows, including the ultra-precise MicronMapper and the manufacturing-verifying FitCheck system. They also introduce the Tissue Mapper workflow, pushing the boundaries of scanner-free, fiducial-free, highly accurate full-arch dentistry.
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399: Jordan Greenberg: The CAM Man Can Follow-Me to HyperDent
November 17th, 2025 | 1 hr 8 mins
abutments, amber, angulated, automation voices from the bench, bars, burrs, cad, calibration, cam, cnc, d5, datron, dental, denture, discs, exocad, feedrates, finishing, fixtures, follow-me, grinding, haas, hyperdent, hypermill, imagine, insertion-direction, ivoclar, ivotion, kevo, kinematics, laboratory, lava, machining, margins, materials, milling, multi-unit, nesting, pmma, post-processor, preforms, pucks, roland, roughing, screw-channel, spindle, stl, strategies, technician, templates, titanium, toolpacks, toolpaths, validation, zirconia
This episode features Jordan Greenberg of FOLLOW-ME! Technology, who breaks down the world of CAM software and explains how HyperDent powers mills, toolpaths, and new materials across the industry. Jordan shares his journey through dental milling, the challenges behind emerging workflows like angulated screws and milled dentures, and why CAM is the quiet engine that makes modern digital dentistry possible.
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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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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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388: FDLA 2025 and Jensen Dental Part 1 with Savannah Jones, Gabriel Jimenez, Tom Zaleske, & Josh Williams
September 1st, 2025 | 1 hr 17 mins
alaska, basement, career, cost, dehumidifiers, dental, disinfecting, exocad, fees, frameworks, gc america, hot, keystone, laboratory, lmt, metal, microwave, patient centered, polish, pow, printers, regulation, removables, scan, self taught, solo, speaking, technical, technician, walmart
Back in June, Jensen Dental invited us to record at the FDLA symposium! This week we meet Savannah Jones and Gabriel Jimenez from DCS Dental Lab, then removable guru Tom Zaleske, and master of metal printing Josh Williams.
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386: Farewell to IDS 2025 & exocad Part 11 with Agata Bak, Iman Ansari, & Larry Bodony
August 18th, 2025 | 1 hr 1 min
9, bite finder, black pearl, ceramic, challenge, clients, coffee, consulting, dating, dental, designer, exocad, gc, growth, iceland, ids, in house, laboratory, last minute, lava scanners, love, managing time, marriage, metal, mill, new suit, outsource, partnerships, president, resume, retired, risk, social media, technician, trade shows, veneers, voices from the bench, walking
All 11 hours of conversations from the exocad booth at IDS 2025 is coming to an end. This episode starts by telling the story of how Agata Bak and Iman Ansari fell in love and eventually opened Black Pearl Dental Lab. Then we meet the man responsible for the growth and popularity of exocad in North America, Larry Bodony.
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385: IDS 2025 & exocad Part 10 with Pierre-Luc Duchesne, Dereck Donnelly, & Dr. Eimear O’Connell
August 11th, 2025 | 58 mins 12 secs
1on1, art, back to the future, box, canada, dental, ds core, education, exocad, exoplan, feedback, fp1, fusion, glaze, grandmother, hero, ids, invisalign, ireland, itero, laboratory, maple syrup, marketing, master cup, nexus, packaging, panther, phototgrammetry, prep, public, scan, scotland, sleep apnea, smile design, stain, surgical guides, technician, teeth, vita, voices from the bench
Back for the 10th time with conversations from the exocad booth at IDS 2025. First up are two people creating excellent customer experiences with Panthera, Pierre-Luc Duchesne and Dereck Donnelly. Then we meet the Irish dentist in Scotland, Dr. Eimear O’Connell who uses digital to give her patients the best treatment possible.