Displaying 5 items of Voices from The Bench with the tag "oem".
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432: Felix Chung: Imagine That an Aerospace Engineer Turned into a Dental Nerd
July 6th, 2026 | 1 hr 3 mins
3d printing, 3shape, 98mm puck, additive manufacturing, aerospace engineering, cad design, cad/cam, compatible implants, crown and bridge, custom abutments, datron d5, dental business, dental cad, dental cam, dental innovation, dental lab, dental laboratory, dental manufacturing, dental materials, dental podcast, dental software, dental technology, digital dentistry, digital transformation, digital workflow, dof scanner, engineering, entrepreneurship, exocad, exocad insights, felix chung, georgia tech, hyperdent, imagine, imilling, implant bars, implant components, implant dentistry, implant restorations, ims icore, in-house milling, innovation, jordan greenberg, keystone dental, lab day, laboratory efficiency, laboratory growth, laboratory workflow, milling, milling center, milling machines, milling strategies, mist, nasa, oem, open systems, outsourcing, prosthetics, restorative dentistry, scan bodies, sic implants, technical support, ti-base, titanium bars, titanium nitride, united states navy, voices from the bench, walter reed, zirconia, zirconzahn
This week we sit down with Felix Chung from Imagine to hear the incredible story of how an aerospace engineering graduate and NASA intern unexpectedly found his passion in dental technology. From building one of the industry's leading digital dentistry companies to discussing milling, CAD/CAM, implant components, and the future of laboratory workflows, Felix shares the lessons, risks, and innovations that have shaped his journey over the past 15 years.
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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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347: A Stack of Nerds Talking About Surgical Guides with Alan Banks from GuidedSMILE
November 18th, 2024 | 1 hr 5 mins
angles screw chambers, blue sky bio, bone reduction, cbct, chairside, chrome, clicks, communication, conversion, custom mua, dental, dme, dual scan, fda, geometry, guided, implants, laboratory, metal printing, nerd, oem, podcast, printer, roe, sleeveless, smart denture conversion, stl, surgical guides, technician, treatment planning, university, voices from the bench
What happens when two implant nerds talk about stackable surgical guides? Well find out as Elvis has a chat with Alan Banks from GuidedSMILE about how they use RealGuide to streamline the workflow and obtain more predictable results.
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297: Real Implant Talk with Joel Gonzales and MegaGen
December 4th, 2023 | 1 hr 10 mins
abutments, air force, bone reduction, connection, dallas, dental, education, electrician, fp1, fp2, fp3, full arch, laboratory, lifecore, morse taper, oem, platform, podcast, scan bodies, screws, surgical guides, team approach, technician, threads, voices from the bench
This week we get super nerdy with Joel Gonzales from MegaGen North America. Joel talks about his past with implants, why he educates rather than sells, all about surgery protocols, all about the MegaGen implant, and using the right tool for the right job.
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227: Alakazam and Presto! It’s Tony Prestipino!
August 1st, 2022 | 1 hr 10 mins
all-on-4, all-on-x, biomet, confidence, dental, digital design, encode, laboratory, oem, pankey, partnership, podcast, porcelain abutment, technician, twins, voices from the bench, zimmer, zimvie
This week we are joined by Tony Prestipino from Artifex Dental Laboratory. Tony talks about family, family lab life, and life with family out of the lab, and lab life with family. Also implants, conversions, and patents.