Displaying all 6 Episode of Voices from The Bench with the tag “insurance”.
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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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372: Mark Hidde Wants You to WINWINGO and Chris Nevarez Can Help Patients Win with Medical Insurance
May 12th, 2025 | 1 hr 20 mins
all-on-x, area, blue cross ppo, connecting, culture, dental, distribution, follow through, incognito mode, indeed, insurance, laboratory, living, marketing, medical billing, patterson, photos, physician referral, profile, relocation, salary, scratch rep, software, sundries, talent, technician, voices from the bench, wearhouse, x-ray, zip recruiter
This week brings a conversation with Mark Hidde from WINWINGO about a new way to find employees and for technicians to find labs. We also talk to Chris Nevarez about using medical insurance for full arch dental work.
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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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319: The Benefit of Providing Benefits for Dental Technicians with Michael Clark
May 6th, 2024 | 1 hr 7 mins
accidents, alloy, anton woolf, argen, bodybuilding, broker, cancer, colonial life, cybersecurity, delta dental, dental, disability, discipline, dso, harvest dental, helping, hr, insurance, laboratory, life insurance, long term, payroll, podcast, reduce, short term, technician, the dental lab, voices from the bench, voluntary benefits, workman's comp
This week we talk to Michael Clark, who after being a pivotal member of Argen as they went from an alloy company to a digital solutions partner, has embarked on a goal of providing good insurance benefits to those in the dental community.
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267: Celebrating Traditions Digitally From the Ivoclar Ballroom at Lab Day Chicago with Chet Spivey and Esther Schwenning
May 8th, 2023 | 1 hr 5 mins
100 years, asiga, beer, bleaching, bonding, brewery, buffalo, canada, dental, dentures, denturism, denturist, digital, education, emax, insurance, ivoclar, ivotion, lab, lab day chicago, laboratory, las vegas institute, lips, marketing, northern lights, partials, pm7, podcast, printing, suction, technician, travel agent, variolink, vivascan, voices from the bench
This week we are back in the Ivoclar Ballroom at LMT Lab Day Chicago 2023 with two more conversations. First up is Senior Vice President of Sales for Ivoclar, Chet Spivey. Then we chat with Esther Schwenning, the rock star denturist from Canada.
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65: Big Stars in the Lone Star State: At the DLAT with Sarah Mathis, Donna Smith, and Scott Ruehle
June 24th, 2019 | 46 mins 30 secs
appreciation, cdt, dental, dental assistant, dlat, insurance, laboratory, podcast, technician, texas, voices from the bench, zirconia
We wrap up June and we also wrap up the guests we got to talk with at the DLAT Conference. Joining us on this episode are Sarah Mathis from Duece Dental Laboratory, Donna Smith CDT from Digital Ceramics by Design, and talking insurance with Scott Ruehle from Sebrite Agency.