Displaying items 1-10 of 11 in total of Voices from The Bench with the tag "ivotion".
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430: exocad Insights 2026 Part 4: Dr. Zhiqiang Luo, Alyson Bravo, & Tobias Specht
June 22nd, 2026 | 1 hr 7 mins
analog skills, ann arbor, bite finder, brazil, cad/cam, career development, career journey, case planning, china, clinical faculty, clinical instructor, clinical scientist, clinician, clinicians, collaboration, communication, community, community building, conference highlights, continuing education, countryside of brazil, cross-functional collaboration, customer feedback, customer support, customer-driven development, data acquisition, dental care, dental conference, dental convention, dental craftsmanship, dental designer, dental ecosystem, dental education, dental industry, dental innovation, dental lab, dental laboratory, dental leadership, dental manufacturing, dental materials, dental professionals, dental software, dental students, dental technology, dentures, design software, digital adoption, digital center, digital communication, digital dentistry, digital dentures, digital future, digital solutions, digital transformation, digital workflow, dream trip, education, education and training, education programs, event experience, exhibition hall, exocad, exocad insights 2026, exocad reseller, fixed restorations, fixed workflows, friendships, future clinicians, future of dentistry, glam night, global connections, global dentistry, global travel, hands-on learning, hong kong, ids, ids germany, implementation, industry partnerships, industry trends, innovation, innovation culture, innovation pipeline, inspiration, international attendees, international dental community, ivoclar, ivotion, keynote, laboratory communication, laboratory excellence, laboratory owner, laboratory partnerships, laboratory workflow, learning, lectures, lifelong learning, majorca, mallorca, mentorship, milling, motivation, networking, paraguay, paraná, passion for dentistry, podcast community, podcast listener, presentations, problem solving, product development, product integration, product launches, professional growth, professional inspiration, professional networking, prosthetics, remote design, removable prosthetics, removable workflows, restorative dentistry, restorative solutions, scanners, self-taught, siosp, social media, software integration, software training, spain, speaker, são paulo, teamwork, technician, technician training, technicians, technology adoption, technology leadership, training, travel, university of michigan, user feedback, voices from the bench, work ethic, workflow efficiency, workflow integration, workflow optimization, workflow refinement
This week from exocad Insights 2026 in Mallorca, Elvis and Barb sit down with Dr. Zhiqiang Luo to discuss how dental education is evolving alongside rapidly advancing digital workflows and why strong analog fundamentals still matter. They also meet Alyson Bravo, a dental technician from Brazil whose journey to the event highlights the power of digital dentistry, global connections, and lifelong learning. Rounding out the episode, Tobias Specht from Ivoclar shares insights into the company's latest innovations, its ongoing collaboration with exocad, and how customer feedback continues to shape the future of digital dental technology.
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417: Lab Day Chicago 2026 Part 3 with Frederic Rapp, Casey Baldwin, & Darin Lockaby
March 23rd, 2026 | 1 hr 12 mins
3shape, 510k, abs, abutments, aesthetics, ai, ai assistant, ai in dentistry, alerts, analytics, api, australia, automation, automation tools, ballroom, barb, blanks, bob cohen, business development, calibration, cam software, canada, case tracking, casey baldwin, ceramart, chairside, characterization, collaboration, communication, consolidation, cost of acquisition, craftsmanship, cross-selling, crown ceram, custom abutments, customer behavior, customer retention, customer service, darren lockerby, dashboards, data, database, dental, dental community, dental lab, dental technician, dental wings, des, digital dentistry, digital dentures, digital workflow, dry milling, education, efficiency, elvis, emax, engineering, entrepreneurship, europe labs, exocad, fda compliance, field work, fixed, follow-up, frédéric rapp, future tech, global industry, greatlab, hyperdent, icortica, implant workflow, implants, in-house production, industry trends, innovation, insights, integration, intraoral scanner, ios, ivoclar, ivotion, lab day energy, lab efficiency, lab growth, lab life, lab management system, labday, laboratory, leadership, live podcast, lms, magic touch, manufacturing, margins, materials, mechanical engineering, milling, networking, notes, notifications, oem, onboarding, open implants, opportunity tracking, outsourcing, partnership, plug and play, pm7, pnp, price pressure, private equity, productivity, profitability, programill 7, quality control, rapid prototyping, real-time data, relationships, removable, reporting, reps, revenue growth, rob nazel, sales strategy, scalability, scaling, scheduling, software, stock abutments, tasks, team building, technician, technology, tie bases, training, turnaround time, upselling, us labs, validation, voice input, voices from the bench, wet milling, workflow, workflow control, zirconia
Live from the Ivoclar Ballroom at Lab Day 2026, Elvis and Barb talk with Frederic Rapp about his journey from a small family lab to scaling a 150-person operation and now helping labs unlock their data with icortica. Then Casey Baldwin (Ivoclar) and Darin Lockaby (DESS) join to break down their new plug-and-play workflow for milling FDA-compliant abutments in-house—giving labs more control and better margins.
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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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384: IDS 2025 & exocad Part 9 with Paul Dowling, Jacqueline Ffrench, & Thomas Baaske
August 4th, 2025 | 1 hr 2 mins
3d, 4 day work week, academy, ai, better life, business, community, dental, dentures, digital, efficient, exocad, feedback, generations, global, health, ids, inventory, ireland, ivotion, lab day chicago, laboratory, leadership, lean manufacturing, part time, polish, printing, removables, repair, small changes, soft reline, strength in the industry, technician, voices from the bench, well being, workflow, zirconzahn
Back again to a time in Germany when we recorded in the exocad booth at IDS 2025. This week we start with Paul Dowling & Jacqueline Ffrench who are doing amazing things in Ireland for the lab community. Then we meet Thomas Baaske from Ivoclar that tells us all about the new printed denture material, the inventory system, and Ivoclar at IDS.
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377: IDS 2025 & exocad Part 3 with Dr. Manish Chhabra & Tobias Specht
June 16th, 2025 | 1 hr 25 secs
3shape, cad, cam, cerec, consulting, customer service, dental, dentist, design center, digident, digital dentures, dubai, emax, exocad, faster, follow up, hard reline, headset, ids, india, ivoclar, ivotion, laboratory, milling center, muscle memory, patients, prevention and care, printable wax, programill, quality, reline, repairing, scalability, scaling, speakers, technician, technology, training, unlearn, virtual reality, voices from the bench, vr
This week Elvis and Barb bring you two more conversation from the exocad booth at IDS 2025. First up is Dr. Manish Chhabra who ran a 300 person design center in India and is now training people with VR. Then we chat with Tobias Specht from Ivoclar all about what they have been working on, what’s new, and how they do a massive show in Germany.
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355: Jonny Jakson is Bleeding Purple with exocad and Evolve
January 13th, 2025 | 1 hr 3 mins
buffalo, cad/cam, collaboration, dental, dentist design, design, exocad, family, full arch, hard work, high school, innovative, ivotion, jig, lab day, laboratory, photogrammetry, podcast, purple, sameday, scanning, screws, sponge, super user, technician, training, uncle, updates, vhf mills, voices from the bench
This week we welcome Jonny Jakson, known as "Jonny Exocad," to explore his transformative journey in the dental tech industry. From his family's legacy in dental labs to his innovative work with Exocad, Johnny shares insights on blending traditional and digital workflows. Learn how he's empowering clinicians and training the next generation of dental techs.
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315: Lab Day Chicago 2024 Act 3 with James & James Angelone, Patrick Coon, and Peggy Alexander
April 8th, 2024 | 1 hr 17 mins
air force, alabama, apprentice, assistant, biology, buffalo, chicago, civilian, communication, competition, dental, dental hygiene, dentures, education, hog, iraq, ivoclar, ivotion, lab day, laboratory, lithium disilicate, pm7, podcast, pr5, print, r&d, roe dental lab, smart denture conversion, sweet home alabama, teamwork, technician, texas, too old, voices from the bench, zirconia
Back AGAIN in the Ivoclar Ballroom at LMT Lab Day Chicago 2024 with James (The Denture man) Angelone and his son James Angelone, Patrick Coon from Ivoclar, and Peggy Alexander, a clinical educator at the University of Texas
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313: Lab Day Chicago 2024 Act 1 with Michael Wandling, Vinod Dudhat, Brian Johns, and Rob Fletcher
March 25th, 2024 | 1 hr 18 mins
3shape, a team, agriculture, all-on-x, cal-lab, cdt, change, chicago, composite, compromise, dental, die trimming, digital cdt, examiner, fixed, full arch, glidewell, health care, india, instagram, ivoclar, ivotion, japanese automotive, lab day, laboratory, leadership, lean, legos, line balance, manufacturing, master, nbc, one piece flow, open forum, photogrammetry, pm7, podcast, scan bodies, task force, technician, test, the toyota way, voices from the bench, youtube
This week starts all the conversations that Elvis and Barb got while in the Ivoclar Ballroom at LMT Lab Day Chicago. This week brings Michael Wandling, Vinod Dudhat, Brian Johns, and Rob Fletcher.
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305: Educating the Future of Digital Dentures with Dr. Wendy Clark
January 29th, 2024 | 1 hr 5 mins
1937, a2, border molding, breakage, carbon, centric relation, dental, dentures, digital, fail, full color, gothic arch, ivotion, lab day, laboratory, partials, podcast, records, reference denture, removables, stratasys, technician, voices from the bench, workflow
This week we are joined once again by Dr. Wendy Clark who teaches removables at the University of North Carolina. Dr. Clark talks about what she has learned over the years with digital dentures, why the workflow clinically is better, how the outcome can be better, why they fail, and how understanding digital can help us all understand analog better.
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303: It's the Bobby and Blake Show! with Bobby Kenney and Blake Barksdale
January 15th, 2024 | 1 hr 5 mins
army, bombed, conversions, culture, dan yoder, dental, full arch, implants, ivotion, laboratory, missiles, new teeth now, pm7, poached, podcast, removables, t-ball, technician, tempories, triathlon, voices from the bench
This week we are joined by two "gentlemen" who are doing great things in Huntsville, Alabama. Bobby Kenney comes on to talk about his journey in dental technology that has landed him back at Barksdale Dental Lab to help Blake Barksdale take the lab to the next level of digital dentistry.