Displaying all 8 Episode of Voices from The Bench with the tag “impressions”.
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362: Josie Schmitz-Burchartz is Marinating in Denture Goodness
March 3rd, 2025 | 1 hr 4 mins
analog, border molding, canada, cleaning, clear dentures, dental, dentures, edentulous, function, impressions, ivoclar, laboratory, marinade, newspapers, passionate, patient care, plaster, podcast, practical, practice, psychology, referrals, small town, suction, technician, university, voices from the bench, work life balance
This week, we sit down with Josie Schmitz-Burchartz, a dedicated denturist from British Columbia, who shares her incredible journey from cleaning her father's lab to running her own thriving practice. Josie discusses the importance of patient relationships, the challenges of the profession, and her commitment to providing exceptional care.
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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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352: Carmel Vickers-Wall is Making a Good First Impressions with Patients
December 23rd, 2024 | 1 hr 4 mins
agency, analog, art, assistant, carver, clinical dental technician, dental, dentures, denturist, don't over sell, ear plugs, edentulos, education, focus, gagging, green stick, horror, implants, impressions, instagram, insurance, laboratory, learning, newspaper, nurse, patients, podcast, salt, school, shade, teaching, technician, tooth selection, torch, trays, voices from the bench
At the age of 16, Carmel Vickers-Wall was a Dental Nurse (Assistant), after discovering the dental lab she eventually decided to combine the two and become a Clinical Dental Technician. Carmel provides many insights into seeing patients and making their dentures.
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238: The Best of Both Worlds in Removables: Jeremiah Naas and Finlay Sutton
October 17th, 2022 | 1 hr 2 mins
bite blocks, dental, denturism, denturist, education, implants, impressions, laboratory, mentors, national denturist, overdentures, patients, podcast, prosthetics, records, technician, treatment planning, voices from the bench
This is a week of removable technique both clinical and technical. Jeremiah Nass, denturist from Maine and Finlay Sutton, prosthetic mastermind from England come together to talk about difficult patients, good techniques, and their upcoming live patient course that will cover the A to Z of obtaining removable records.
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232: The Greatest Dentures of All Time (That Suck) with Paul McNally
September 5th, 2022 | 1 hr 7 mins
3shape, apprenticeship, carlow, carpenter, conversions, dental, dentist, denturism, exocad, gothic arch tracing, impressions, ivoclar, japan, laboratory, partials, patrick allen, podcast, public speaking, records, technician, voices from the bench
Have you heard about mandibular suction dentures? Paul McNally, a denturist from Ireland, comes on the podcast to talk all about this amazing technique that he has learned and is now teaching to technicians, denturist, and dentist.
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94: It All Starts with an Impression: Jason Kiser from Kettenbach
January 13th, 2020 | 53 mins 4 secs
dental, impressions, laboratory, podcast, technician, voices from the bench, voices of dentistry
We know that when it comes to good impressions material, technique, and tray matter a lot. This week Elvis and Barb talk to Jason Kiser, a rep from Kettenbach, who grew up and worked in a lab and understands the important role dental labs play in getting the right impression.
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Episode 46: The Denture Man Cometh: Interview with James Angelone Part 2 (VFTB46)
February 11th, 2019 | 30 mins 4 secs
chicago, dental, dental laboratory, dentist, denture man, dentures, exhibit hall, impression, impressions, kettenbach, lab day, lmt, nowak dental supplies, podcast, technician, voices from the bench
We welcome back to the podcast James Angelone, The Denture Man, as he shares with us some of the many techniques he has picked up working chairside for many years.
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45: The Denture Man Cometh: Interview with James Angelone Part 1 (VFTB45)
February 4th, 2019 | 28 mins 55 secs
chicago, dental, dental laboratory, dentist, denture man, dentures, exhibit hall, impressions, kettenbach, lab day, lmt, podcast, straumann, technician, voices from the bench
Elvis and Barb sit down with James Angelone "The Denture Man" to find out how a 11-year Marine Vet can become a highly skilled removable technician that teaches alongside a Prosthodontist.