Displaying 6 items of Voices from The Bench with the tag "night guards".
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415: Lab Day Chicago 2026 (& Cal-Lab) Part 1 with Jeff Stronk, April Newell, & Joey Hunter
March 9th, 2026 | 1 hr 16 mins
additive manufacturing, analog dentistry, april newell, cal-lab, cal-lab 100, chrome cobalt, dental, dental 3d printing, dental business growth, dental career paths, dental craftsmanship, dental frameworks, dental industry trends, dental innovation, dental lab leadership, dental lab management, dental lab owners, dental laboratory, dental manufacturing, dental meetings, dental technician, dental technology, denture finishing, denture waxing, dentures, digital dentistry, implant bars, industry networking, jeff strock, joey hunter, lab day chicago, lab education, lab workflow, laboratory, metal printing, night guards, orthodontic appliances, partial dentures, peer-to-peer learning, removable prosthetics, resin printing, technician, technician skills, titanium printing, tooth setup, voices from the bench, wire bending
At the 100th anniversary meeting of the Cal-Lab Association, Elvis talks with Jeff Stronk about a successful first day filled with great speakers, strong attendance, and meaningful peer-to-peer conversations between lab owners. He also chats with April Newell about the rapid growth of dental 3D printing and how metal and resin printing are expanding what labs can produce. Finally, longtime technician Joey Hunter shares her 30-year journey in removables and her experience attending LMT Lab Day Chicago 2026 for the first time.
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404: Rik Jacobs & Jess Gray: Gradient Dentures and Grit: Two Conversations from Lab Fest 2025
December 22nd, 2025 | 1 hr 12 mins
3d printing, all-on-x, analog workflow, dental, dentures, digital dentures, digital workflow, exocad, facial scanning, hard-soft appliances, in-house lab, instarisa, lab growth, lab ownership, laboratory, multi-color, multi-material, night guards, pmma, production dentistry, technician, technician education, voices from the bench, voxel printing, zirconia
Live from NOLA Lab Fest, we talk with Rik Jacobs of Novenda Technologies about a game-changing, production-scale 3D printer that can print full dentures and hard/soft appliances in true multi-material, multi-color—without supports and with massive throughput. Then we catch up with Jess Gray, who shares her journey from front desk to running a fast-growing, digitally driven in-house lab, blending analog and digital workflows, facial scanning, All-on-X, and leadership lessons from the bench up.
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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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254: The Full Story of Full Contour with Rob Laizure
February 6th, 2023 | 1 hr 12 mins
3shape, argen integration, artificial intelligence, cole bishop, dental, dental wings, dentures, digital, dropdental, family, itero, laboratory, lmt lab day chicago, milling centers, night guards, outsource, partials, photography, podcast, relationships, surgical guides, technician, training, trios, value, voices from the bench
One of the largest design services in our industry is Full Contour and the president Rob Laizure comes on the podcast to tell us the story of scaling and growing to become what they are today along with their new partnership with 3shape
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138: Live, Not Live From the DLAT Part 2: Larry Mercadel & Scott McGaha
November 16th, 2020 | 57 mins 11 secs
dental, hawley retainers, in-house, itero, night guards, orthodontics, podcast, technician, texas, voices from the bench
We are back, not back, live, not live from the Argen booth at October's DLAT meeting. This episode we talk with Larry Mercadel CDT who is full of passion for the industry even after retirement and Scott McGaha who owns a ortho lab talking about technology.