Displaying all 9 Episode of Voices from The Bench with the tag “milling center”.
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403: Live from Lab Fest 2025: Duff Wilson and the Importance of Good Vendor Relationships with Aidite
December 15th, 2025 | 1 hr 18 mins
aidite, cad/cam, crown and bridge, dental, dental laboratory, dental technology, dentures, design services, digital dentistry, full arch, implant restorations, lab associations, lab efficiency, lab ownership, laboratory, lean workflow, mentorship, milling center, relationship, relationships, removables, support, technician, technician education, voices from the bench, zirconia
Duff Wilson shares his unconventional journey through dental technology—from getting thrown into high-volume removables at a major lab to building a lean, relationship-driven lab that’s thrived for over two decades. Along the way, he breaks down why mentorship, smart workflows, and trusting the right people and products matter more than hype, trends, or chasing volume in today’s dental lab world.
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381: IDS 2025 & exocad Part 6 with Björn Zäuner and Tillmann Steinbrecher
July 14th, 2025 | 1 hr 58 secs
articulation, bite, bottlenecks, ceo, code, customer feedback, dental, design, distributors, emotional engagement, exocad, growth, hand articulate, ids, jaw motion, laboratory, memes, milling center, open software, ortho lab, psychology, purple, remakes, researcher, smile design, student, technician, training, user interface, voices from the bench, xsnap
Barb and Elvis bring two powerhouse conversations from the exocad booth at IDS 2025 featuring two people that are changing digital dental design every day. Björn Zäuner tells the story of Bite-Finder and how it can lower remakes by up to 50% and then we chat with the CEO and co-creator of exocad, Tillmann Steinbrecher.
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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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367: From the 40th Lab Day 2025 Part 3 with Christopher Hernandez, Greg Everett, & Joe Braxton
April 7th, 2025 | 1 hr 6 mins
allonx, automotive, dental, dentures, devices, field repair, fixable, instagram, installation, laboratory, mexico, milling center, oem parts, organic growth, pm7, posting, remote help, removables, shipping, sleep apnea, spindle, st. louis, star struck, tcs, technician, tijuana, training, voices from the bench, warranty
This week we bring you another 3 conversations that we got while in the Ivoclar Ballroom at LMT Lab Day Chicago 2025. First up is Mexico trained dental technician Christopher Hernandez, then Roland mill repairer Greg Everett with Denteon, and then we wrap up the episode with the guy behind all the Ivoclar Mill installation, training, and service, Joe Braxton.
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337: When Teeth and Art Come Together with Charlie Barbour
September 9th, 2024 | 56 mins 32 secs
bright colors, dental, designing, doodling, education, exocad, foundation degree, free time, graphic design, homework ipad, lab to lab, laboratory, milling center, ortho, pilot, podcast, radio therapy, royal family, scanning, seating and adjusting, straumann, studying, technician, tooth libraries, university, voices from the bench
When your love of art and your love of teeth can come together, wonderful things can happen. That is exactly what Charlie Barbour did as he talks about his journey in dental technology, learning about tooth anatomy, and turning it into amazing, detailed, and colorful art.
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329: Three More From exocad Insights 2024 with Dr. Marcus White, Ashley Bryne, & Seth Potter
July 15th, 2024 | 1 hr 12 mins
application, canada, ceramist, certified, conversion, cow shed, crowns, dental, dental therapist, digital, dominican republic, drake dental lab, excel, exocad, focus, free hand implants, freelance, full arch, group, implant planning, implants, indeed, ios scans, itero, laboratory, laptop, loyalty, luggage, milling center, night guards, podcast, printing, remote, share concepts, spain, synergy, technician, test, together, trainer, vacation, voices from the bench, workflow
Back on the island of Mallorca Spain at exocad Insights 2024 with 3 fantastic conversations including Dr. Marcus White, Ashley Bryne, & Seth Potter
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274: Lab Day West Coast Stories Part 1 with Calvin Song and Sevan Pulurian
June 26th, 2023 | 59 mins 49 secs
24/7, ada, ai, business development, cal-lab, cosmetic, custom tray, dental, dental lab network, diagnostic wax ups, facebook, grassroots, laboratory, milling center, model, model builder express, night guards, podcast, sales tax, support, technician, voices from the bench
Back in May, Elvis and Barb took the podcast to LMT Lab Day West thanks to our good friends at Ivoclar. This week we talk to Calvin Song from Creodent about New York wanting to tax veneers and Sevan Pulurian who updates us on all things 3shape.
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242: Minimally Invasive Veneers to the MAX! with Jorgen Gad and Vincent Silvia
November 14th, 2022 | 1 hr 5 mins
bulimic, certified, clear aligners, competitive learning, contacts, cutback, dental, ed mclaren, education, invisalign, laboratory, milling center, no prep, noritake, norway, oslo, podcast, porcelain, technician, voices from the bench
This week we talk to Vincent Silvia that went to the UCLA Center of Esthetic Dental Design and brings on Jorgen Gad from Norway to talk about what he is doing in the way of minimally invasive veneers.
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164: A Macro look at MicroDental Laboratories: Laura Kelly, CEO
May 17th, 2021 | 59 mins 51 secs
cdt, covid, dental, denture, design centers, digital, it department, laboratory, macstudio, marketing, milling center, modern dental, podcast, robert kreyer, technician, training, voices from the bench, wine
This week we are joined by the CEO of MircoDental Laboratories, Laura Kelly. Laura talks about working her way up in the lab, becoming the first female and technician president of the AACD, and how MicroDental is changing with dentistry.