Displaying items 1-10 of 12 in total of Voices from The Bench with the tag "hiring".
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422: Renata Bundy, Roberto Rossi, & Eugene Vega: The Never Ending Education in a Dental Lab
April 27th, 2026 | 1 hr 3 mins
3d printing, aesthetics, analog dentistry, anatomy, artistry, asiga, bench work, boutique lab, cad/cam, career development, career growth, career pathways, case acceptance, case planning, ceramics, city tech, collaboration, communication, continuing education, cosmetic dentistry, craftsmanship, crown and bridge, custom shade, dental, dental education, dental industry, dental lab life, dental materials, dental milling, dental printers, dental school, dental students, dental technician, dental technology, dentist relationships, dentures, diagnostic wax-up, digital dentistry, digital impressions, digital transition, digital workflow, efficiency, emax, employee culture, entrepreneurship, exocad, experience vs education, finishing, fixed prosthetics, full arch, future of dentistry, graduation, hands-on training, high-end lab, hiring, implant restorations, implants, impressions, industry challenges, innovation, lab efficiency, lab environment, lab growth, lab management, lab owner, lab perks, lab startup, lab to doctor, lab workflow, laboratory, layering, leadership, mentorship, mentorship in dentistry, milling, model work, morphology, motivation, new york city college of technology, occlusion, patient experience, polishing, porcelain, problem solving, production lab, productivity, prosthodontics, qc, quality control, removable, scaling a lab, scanning, shade matching, small business, smile design, synergy, team culture, teamwork, technician, technician retention, technician shortage, technology adoption, time management, training, troubleshooting, voices from the bench, wax-up, work ethic, work-life balance, workflow management, zirconia
Elvis reunites with Renata Bundy alongside lab owner Roberto Rossi and technician Eugene Vega for a conversation that connects education to real-world lab life. They share how technicians often start with little experience, face early challenges, and need the right mentorship and environment to grow. Roberto highlights building a quality-driven lab while navigating digital workflows, and Renata reflects on preparing students for those realities.
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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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374: Dr. Andrew Turchin Has the Formula For a Smiling Success
May 26th, 2025 | 1 hr 4 mins
3shape, aesthetics, ceramics, communication, dental, designers, education, emax, exocad, high end, hiring, ivoclar, lab day, laboratory, neck pain, picky patients, porcelain, quality control, teaching, technician, voices from the bench
This week we meet Dr. Andrew Turchin from Aspen Colorado who has developed a mathematical equation that has allowed him and his in-office lab technicians to formulate a simple treatment that creates better smiles.
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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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357: Jim Thacker is Doing Things Differently at Utah Valley Dental Lab
January 27th, 2025 | 1 hr 4 mins
covid growth, culture, dental, designers, dso, employee owned, finance, hand waxing, hiring, impressions, journey, laboratory, marriage, new doctors, owners, payroll, podcast, posterior, relationship business, scheduling, technician, training, utah, veneers, voices from the bench
This week we meet ONE of the owners of Utah Valley Dental Lab, Jim Thacker. Jim talks about marrying into the dental lab, how they are known for high end esthetics that still does mostly hand waxing, and how they grew the business through referrals and continuing education.
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351: Swirling in a Vortex of Clinic and Lab with Dr. Danny Domingue
December 16th, 2024 | 1 hr 1 min
1.4, 1.6, 1.8, 3shape, 510k, aim screw, angled driver, associate, blue sky bio, cal-lab, custom abutment, dental, engineering, exocad, family, fiducial marker, frustration, general dentist, hiring, hyperdent, karinia, laboratory, libraries, math, milling parameters, miscommunication, mission trip, miyo, podcast, preferences, producibility, residency, scan body, surgical guide, technician, training, uncle, voices from the bench, vortex
This week we meet Dr. Danny Domingue, dentist and lab owner that talks about understanding the miscommunication between the two and how we can improve it. Dr. Domingue also talks about his way of giving back to dentistry with his invention of the Vortex screw.
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344: Stephenie Who? with Stephenie Goddard the CEO of Glidewell Laboratories
October 28th, 2024 | 1 hr 2 mins
510k, banks, bruxzir, celebrate cultures, ceo, chinese new year, christmas party, culture shock, dental, eduction, fds, fusion, hiring, human resources, introvert, laboratory, leadership development, medical manufacturing, model room finance, office, podcast, radiant, respect the vision, technician, training cdt, voices from the bench, who, wwjgd
This week we get to meet the person that took over as CEO of Glidewell Laboratories 3 years ago, Stephenie Goddard. Stephenie talks about her 18 year history with the company, helping them grow in technicians and technology, and creating their leadership program that has allowed the lab to scale to the size it is today.
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296: Igniting The Fire In Your Belly with Marina Caponigro
November 27th, 2023 | 1 hr 11 mins
aidite, anax usa, cooking, courses, dental, dental assistant, elementary school teacher, food, gc america, hiring, laboratory, meatballs, multitasking, podcast, sin dental, teaching, technician, traveling, ukraine, voices from the bench
This week we talk to the ever-enthusiastic Marina Caponigro from the Smileology Group Dental Lab. Marina talks about coming to America, learning chairside and lab work, her passion for teaching others, and opening her own lab to help other labs.
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193: Straight From the Mouth of Dandy with Kenn Butler
December 6th, 2021 | 1 hr 4 mins
dental, designers, hiring, intraoral scanners, ivoclar prime, katana, laboratory, partnerships, podcast, technician, trios, voices from the bench, work from home, zirconia
This week we talk to Kenn Butler who is the Head of R&D at Dandy. Dandy is a company that has caused disruption to the dental lab industry and Kenn comes on to talk about the what, why, and how of Dandy.
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184: Connecting Technicians and Labs with Andy Foster
October 4th, 2021 | 58 mins 55 secs
dental, denturist, employment, facebook, hiring, indeed, job posting, job seeking, laboratory, monster, podcast, resume, technician, voices from the bench
Why is it so hard for good labs to find good technicians? Why is it hard for technicians to find good labs? One man is on a mission to change that. Andy Foster talks about creating a website dedicated to dental technicians and dental laboratories finding each other.