Displaying items 1-10 of 23 in total of Voices from The Bench with the tag "removable".
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418: Lab Day Chicago 2026 Part 4 with Josh Williams, Savannah Elkins, Darin McCue, Vicki Thomas, and Carrie Ling
March 30th, 2026 | 1 hr 16 mins
3d printing, access, additive, burnout, business, buying group, cad, cam, chicago, collaboration, communication, community, competition, consulting, culture, dental, design, digital, durability, efficiency, evolution, flexibles, growth, hiring, industry, innovation, lab day, lab-to-lab, laboratory, leadership, management, materials, mentorship, outsourcing, ownership, partnerships, pricing, production, removable, rpd, sales, savvy, scalability, small labs, strategy, technician, technology, training, vendors, voices from the bench, workflows
Live from LMT Lab Day Chicago, Elvis and Barb capture three conversations that highlight the future of the lab industry. From Savannah and Josh’s fast-moving digital removable workflows at GPS Digital RPD, to Darin McCue’s blunt reminder that labs need strong leadership—not just great technicians and how Saleslift Consulting can help—and finally Vicki and Carrie’s push to empower smaller labs through smarter partnerships and buying power with Savvy Lab Solutions, every discussion points to the same truth: adapting isn’t optional.
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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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413: Jay Collins: The Art of Aggressive Calming Sales for a Dental Lab
February 23rd, 2026 | 1 hr 11 mins
1099, 2008 crash, abundance mindset, accountability, acquisitions, aggressive calm, branding, china, cold calling, commission, consistency, construction, crown and bridge, customer service, deal fatigue, decision maker, dental, dental lab, door-to-door, entrepreneurship, family business, firing clients, front desk, gatekeeper, growth, implants, irish catholic, laboratory, leadership, legacy, margins, mergers, mindset, multi-location, office dynamics, outsourcing, persistence, philadelphia, pricing, private equity, prospecting, prosthodontics, psychology, quality, recession, relationship building, removable, retention, sales, sandler system, solution selling, steamfitters, technician, thedentalab.net, turnaround time, voices from the bench
Jay Collins shares his journey from a split Philadelphia family of steamfitters and dental technicians to becoming the bold, growth-driven leader behind thedentalab.net. After the 2008 crash forced him out of construction, he dove into dental lab sales with relentless cold-calling, developing his “aggressively calm” approach that challenges traditional lab-owner mindsets. This episode is a fast-paced, hilarious deep dive into sales psychology, growth through mergers, and why labs must treat sales as seriously as production if they want to survive and scale.
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376: IDS 2025 & exocad Part 2 with Amy Tate, Dr. Rami Gamil, & Pam Rehm
June 9th, 2025 | 1 hr 5 mins
3d vision, argen, cad, cbct, certification, chicago, cone bean, dental, dentist, denturist, digital dentures, digital records, edentulous scans, education, exocad, fixed, high energy, hype, ids, imaging, implants, internship, ios, laboratory, lecturing, management, mentorship, models, nate, outsource, removable, revolutionary, scan every denture, scanning, speaking, study clubs, teaching, technician, technology, theory, training, university, voices from the bench, world cup
Back at it from the exocad booth at IDS 2025! First up is new"ish" to the dental lab industry, Amy Tate from the UK. Then we chat with Dr. Rami Gamil, a dentist from Egypt that brought technology to the masses, and we wrap up with Canadian Pam Rehm who is out to make sure every denturist has the proper opportunity to go digital.
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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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336: A FREE Jamie Stover with Every Carbon Printer
September 2nd, 2024 | 1 hr 9 mins
3d printing, bates technical college, bench work, carbon, cdt, communication, delivery driver, dental, digital dentures, digital workflow, education, fixed, get involved, gps, handwritten, helping, knowledge, laboratory, management, nadl university, nbc, podcast, removable, sharing, technician, technology, voices from the bench, washington state
This week we talk to ex-delivery driver, ex-bench tech, ex-lab manager, ex-operations manager, to current Senior Manager of Application Strategy and Integration with Carbon Printer and current Chair of the National Board of Certification in Dental Laboratory Technology.
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314: Lab Day Chicago 2024 Act 2 with Dr. Sandy & James Kirk, Dr. Ed McLaren, and Patrick Allen
April 1st, 2024 | 1 hr 8 mins
bills, bonding, bps, carpenter, ceramics, chicago, chile, dental, dental boards, denturism, digital, education, faith, ivoclar, james bond, lab day, laboratory, legislative, local support, matrix, mission trip, national movement, no prep veneers, podcast, reliable, removable, residency, star trek, star wars, suction, support, technician, trios, virginia, voices from the bench
This week we continue the conversations we got while at in the Ivoclar Ballroom during LMT Lab Day Chicago 2024. This time we have husband and wife lab owners James & Dr. Sandy Kirk, the technician's dentist Dr. Ed McLaren, and Denturist Patrick Allen.
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307: A Youth's Excursion into Conversions with Tyler McCabe
February 12th, 2024 | 1 hr 32 secs
1099, airport, analog, blood, books, breakage, cdt, clearning, colorado, dental, denturist, denver, digital, eyes, fake teeth, lab day, laboratory, multi units, podcast, production lab, removable, repair, straumann, surgery, surgical guides, technician, templates, tonsillitis, traveling, voices from the bench
This week we talk to a young technician that started at the age of 13 and only 3 years later, is doing chairside conversions, Tyler McCabe. Tyler talks about his lab family, some of the labs he has worked at, and what the future holds for him.
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283: Their Digital Design Evidence is Evident with Guy Menzies
August 28th, 2023 | 56 mins 20 secs
24 hour, ai, cad, crown and bridge, dedicated team, dental, dental share, design, evident, exocad, full arch, implants, invoicing, ios integration, lab-to-lab, laboratory, new zealand, partials, podcast, productivity, profile, removable, shining 3d, smile design, technician, trends, voices from the bench
This week is all about outsourcing digital designs with Evident. Guy Manzies, VP of Digital Design Services, comes on to talk about what it takes to handle all the different lab preferences with other 350 designers and keep constancy.
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273: Showing Some Love to the Model Room with Marsha Mais
June 19th, 2023 | 1 hr 16 secs
appreciate, assistance, cdt, dental, distilled water, externship, hygiene, laboratory, ortho, podcast, pro pay, removable, technician, toaster oven, vaccine, vacuum mixer, voices from the bench
Let's all show some love to our friends in the model room! This week Marsha Mais joins the podcast to talk about her journey to a dental laboratory, some nice tips and tricks, and how we all need to stop and appreciate those that do model work.