Displaying 7 items of Voices from The Bench with the tag "pmma".
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411: Michael Joseph: No Wax, No Fear and One Lab’s All-In Leap to Digital Dentistry
February 9th, 2026 | 1 hr 14 mins
3d printing, brexit impact, business resilience, cad design, consistency, covid recovery, dental, dental education, dental laboratory, dental marketing, dental sales, dental scanners, dental technology, digital dentistry, exocad, full arch restorations, greatlab lms, immediate load, instagram marketing, itero, lab growth, lab management software, lab ownership, lab systems, laboratory, lithium disilicate, medit, milling machines, peer referrals, photogrammetry, pmma, primescan, quality control, reliability, remote designers, study clubs, technician, technician training, vertical integration, voices from the bench, workflow automation, zirconia
Elvis and Barb sit down with London lab owner Michael Joseph, who shares his journey from scooter courier to fully digital lab owner, including the hard lessons learned through COVID, Brexit, and rebuilding from the brink. Michael breaks down how committing to digital workflows, automation, photogrammetry, and rock-solid protocols transformed his lab into a scalable, referral-driven business. This episode is a powerful reminder that reinvention, consistency, and smart systems—not shortcuts—are what drive long-term success in today’s dental lab world.
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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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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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353: Dr. Nilo Hernandez & John Orfanidis are Solving Full Arch Problems with the SiOS System
December 30th, 2024 | 1 hr 10 mins
analog, beacons, best for patient, chairside, dental, easy, eliminates steps, eyeballing, full arch, guided, implants, lab day, laboratory, matchmaker, mill, occlusion, partnership, pmma, podcast, printing, problems, quest, solving, super gp, technician, titanium bar, voices from the bench, workflow
A dentist and technician have gotten together to streamline the process of restoring full arch implants. Dr. Nilo Hernandez & John Orfanidis have created the SiOS Dental System that allows you to streamline your workflow with any implant system.
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Episode 233: Open Your Eyes and Learn More with Ocularist Zach Hetzler
September 12th, 2022 | 1 hr 7 mins
acrylic, customization, david bowie, dental, eyeballs, family, globes, laboratory, ocular prosthesis, orbital implant, pmma, podcast, prosthetic eye, scleral shell, second generation, suction, technician, voices from the bench
Taking a break from teeth, Elvis and Barb welcome Zach Hetzler to the program to talk about eyes. Not his eyes, but the eyes he makes. Zach is a Board Certified Ocularist and he comes on to explain the industry, the process, and we discover the similarities to our own industry.
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151: Creative Marketing in a Creative Industry: Tay Harvey and anaxdent North America
February 15th, 2021 | 1 hr 5 mins
3m, dental, flasking, gingiva composite, imtec, laboratory, pekkton, pmma, podcast, rapping, technician, voices from the bench
Ever wonder how a company starts in our industry. Tay Harvey comes on the podcast to tell the interesting story of how she brought anaxdent to North America and took it from an unknown product line to one of the more unique companies in our industry. They are all that and a bag of chips (90s phrase).
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140: Prime Innovation and Ivotion: Don Bell from Ivoclar Vivadent
November 30th, 2020 | 1 hr 6 mins
blueline, dental, denture teeth, emax, laboratory, milled, monolithic, p7, pmma, podcast, supply chain, technician, voices from the bench, zirconia
Ivoclar Vivadent has been providing stellar materials to our industry for decades. And that continues into the decades to come as Don Bell from Ivoclar comes on the podcast to talk about Ivotion, Prime, the shutdown, and listening to labs to make everything better.