Displaying items 1-10 of 47 in total of Voices from The Bench with the tag "implants".
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413: Jay Collins: The Art of Aggressive Calming Sales for a Dental Lab
February 23rd, 2026 | 1 hr 11 mins
1099, 2008 crash, abundance mindset, accountability, acquisitions, aggressive calm, branding, china, cold calling, commission, consistency, construction, crown and bridge, customer service, deal fatigue, decision maker, dental, dental lab, door-to-door, entrepreneurship, family business, firing clients, front desk, gatekeeper, growth, implants, irish catholic, laboratory, leadership, legacy, margins, mergers, mindset, multi-location, office dynamics, outsourcing, persistence, philadelphia, pricing, private equity, prospecting, prosthodontics, psychology, quality, recession, relationship building, removable, retention, sales, sandler system, solution selling, steamfitters, technician, thedentalab.net, turnaround time, voices from the bench
Jay Collins shares his journey from a split Philadelphia family of steamfitters and dental technicians to becoming the bold, growth-driven leader behind thedentalab.net. After the 2008 crash forced him out of construction, he dove into dental lab sales with relentless cold-calling, developing his “aggressively calm” approach that challenges traditional lab-owner mindsets. This episode is a fast-paced, hilarious deep dive into sales psychology, growth through mergers, and why labs must treat sales as seriously as production if they want to survive and scale.
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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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387: Dr. Brandon Kofford is Getting Even Smarter About Conversions
August 25th, 2025 | 1 hr 9 mins
break, complaints, consultant, conversion, dental, dental surgery, fda, implants, laboratory, legacy, medium, multi unit abutments, peek, precoating, round, screws, swivel, technician, testing, torque, voices from the bench
We welcome back Prosthodontist Dr. Brandon Kofford, the inventor of the Smart Denture Conversion system. This time he comes back to talk about the new 2.0 version, the Infinite Angle Omnibut MUAs, and the use of prefabricated arches.
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383: IDS 2025 & exocad Part 8 with Dr. Milad Shadrooh, Dr. Robbie Hughes, Zelko Relic, & Ben Weber
July 28th, 2025 | 1 hr 1 min
ai, computer sciences, confident, dental, dental therapist, digital workflows, education, exocad, hand holding, ids, implants, infrared, inspiration, laboratory, liverpool, models, move or remove, moving teeth, palate expanding, printing, scale, singing excited, smile makeovers, software, solution, stadiums, suck down, technician, training, trimming, under the hood, voices from the bench
A jam-packed episode featuring conversations from the exocad booth at IDS 2025. Two doctors that are teaching others the ways of digital at Avant Garde Dentistry, Dr. Milad Shadrooh and Dr. Robbie Hughes. Then we have a great time getting to know Zelko Relic, the CTO of Align Technologies. We wrap up the episode with Ben Weber from ModuleWorks.
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376: IDS 2025 & exocad Part 2 with Amy Tate, Dr. Rami Gamil, & Pam Rehm
June 9th, 2025 | 1 hr 5 mins
3d vision, argen, cad, cbct, certification, chicago, cone bean, dental, dentist, denturist, digital dentures, digital records, edentulous scans, education, exocad, fixed, high energy, hype, ids, imaging, implants, internship, ios, laboratory, lecturing, management, mentorship, models, nate, outsource, removable, revolutionary, scan every denture, scanning, speaking, study clubs, teaching, technician, technology, theory, training, university, voices from the bench, world cup
Back at it from the exocad booth at IDS 2025! First up is new"ish" to the dental lab industry, Amy Tate from the UK. Then we chat with Dr. Rami Gamil, a dentist from Egypt that brought technology to the masses, and we wrap up with Canadian Pam Rehm who is out to make sure every denturist has the proper opportunity to go digital.
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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.
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373: Paolo Lubrano & Tiffany Schreppler Agree That RealGuide is REAL GOOD
May 19th, 2025 | 1 hr 5 mins
affordable, bar, bone reduction, cad, collaboration, communication, demo, dental, fixed, guided surgery, hands on, ibar, implants, instructional videos, lab sales, laboratory, planning, radiology, real good, technician, training, voices from the bench
There are implant planning software and there are restorative design software. Did you know that there is an excellent one that does both and is affordable called RealGuide. Paolo Lubrano from Implant Concierge and Tiffany Schreppler from ZimVie come on to talk about this versatile and powerful software.
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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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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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361: Vladimir Roman is Your Guide to Surgical Guides with Romanax
February 24th, 2025 | 1 hr 3 mins
24 hours, air force, all-on-x, battleships, blue sky plan, bone reduction, boot camp, cbct, computer sciences, dental, dental foreman, exocad, florida, formlabs, implants, inlab, iraq, japan, laboratory, magnets, pat coon, podcast, red cam, surgical guides, surgical kit, technician, texas, updates, voices from the bench
This week we get to meet Air Force trained dental technician, Vladimir Roman. Vladimir tells the story of his time in the service, learning digital, finding a 3D printer, and then opening Romanax that specialize in surgical guides.