Displaying items 1-10 of 12 in total of Voices from The Bench with the tag "patients".
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Episode 395: Lori Margiotta Wants You to Follow the Numbers to Find the Growth
October 20th, 2025 | 1 hr 1 min
care credit, case acceptance, ental, front desk, gatekeeper, growth, identify, laboratory, math, patients, recall, receptionist, relationships, sales, solutions, staff, systems, technician, treatment, trust, unbooked, vision 21, voices from the bench
Elvis and Barb chat with Lori Margiotta from Bookkeeper for Dentists about bridging the gap between dental labs and offices through smarter business tracking. Lori shares how understanding simple numbers like lab expenses and case acceptance can help both labs and dentists grow together.
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393: Ed Molina is Helping Everyone Save Face with a Facially Driven Digital Workflow
October 6th, 2025 | 1 hr 1 min
assistant, dental, digital, education, employees, exocad, facial scanner, full arch, grammetry, kois, laboratory, mentors, patients, photogrammetry, photos, protocol, shining 3d, teaching, technician, tough love, training, troubleshooting, voices from the bench, zircon zahn
Ed Molina shares his journey from working retail to becoming a leader in digital dentistry. Guided by mentors and hands-on experience, he helped pioneer facially driven workflows and now teaches clinicians how to integrate digital design and technology into their practices. Ed discusses mentorship, innovation, and the challenges of bringing digital solutions to everyday dentistry.
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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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368: From the 40th Lab Day 2025 Part 4 with Eric Kukucka, Chelsea Homire, & Brittany Mitchell
April 14th, 2025 | 1 hr 11 mins
3d printing, 3shape, 4 days, adhesive, analog, art, aspen, associates, cerec, customized, d3 splint, dental, dentures, design, digital, donate, drawing, exocad, expanded function, facebook, front desk, implants, in-house, in-office, ivobase, laboratory, luciton, mesh mixer, partners, patients, protocols, quality, removable, signature elite, skill, sprint ray, st. louise, technician, the office, trade school, training, vhf mill, voices from the bench
We are back again in the Ivoclar Ballroom at Lab Day Chicago 2025. This week we talk to Eric Kukucka from Aspen Dental, Chelsea Homire a dental assistant turned lab tech, and Brittany Michell, a lab tech that does digital dentures in a 12 doctor group.
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364: 7th Year Anniversary: International Style with Renata Budny, Sevastiani Perselis, and Rebca Nikedemos
March 17th, 2025 | 1 hr 7 mins
acrylic, coda, communication, covid, dental, digital, ethiopia, externship, family, first, food, greece, laboratory, mistakes, new york, outsource, patience, patients, semester, smell, starting over, technician, voices from the bench, workflow
Celebrate 7 years of the podcast as we welcome back our very first guest again, Renata Budny. As a teacher at CUNY, Renata brings with her two international students, Sevastiani Perselis from Greece and Rebca Nikedemos from Ethiopia.
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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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300: Mastering exocad with Marjorie Andrade
December 25th, 2023 | 1 hr 11 mins
ai, analog, blender, ceramist, communication, creepy, dental, edit, exocad, fast learner, freelance, gamer, graphic design, idd, inlab, laboratory, microwaves, nerd, patients, podcast, technician, voices from the bench, work visa, workflow
We are celebrating the 300th episode on Christmas with special guest Marjorie Andrade, a Brazilian technicians working in New Zealand. Marjorie talks about her journey, school, learning digital, doing freelance design work, and putting together one of the best online exocad course.
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238: The Best of Both Worlds in Removables: Jeremiah Naas and Finlay Sutton
October 17th, 2022 | 1 hr 2 mins
bite blocks, dental, denturism, denturist, education, implants, impressions, laboratory, mentors, national denturist, overdentures, patients, podcast, prosthetics, records, technician, treatment planning, voices from the bench
This is a week of removable technique both clinical and technical. Jeremiah Nass, denturist from Maine and Finlay Sutton, prosthetic mastermind from England come together to talk about difficult patients, good techniques, and their upcoming live patient course that will cover the A to Z of obtaining removable records.
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213: Digging Deep into Dentures with Deepa Bharakhda
April 25th, 2022 | 1 hr 6 mins
anaxdent, blending, cdt, dental, dentures, india, ivoclar, laboratory, lmt, milk delivery, patients, podcast, preat, removables, technician, teeth, voices from the bench, wax
This week we talk to passionate and enthusiastic removable technician Deepa Bharakhda from the UK. Deepa talks about learning the craft, working directly with patients, finding her dream lab, and art of using composites to create natural looking dentures.
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182: Collaboration, Communication, and Caring with Eric Kukucka DD
September 20th, 2021 | 1 hr 5 mins
3shape, dental, george brown college, internship, ivotion denture, laboratory, milled, partial, patients, podcast, printed, scanners, technician, trios, voices from the bench
This week brings us a progressive denturist out of Canada. Eric Kukucka has been speaking and sharing his love for removables for a long while. He talks about getting into denturism, getting into the digital workflow, and finding his passion on education.