Displaying all 10 Episode of Voices from The Bench with the tag “social media”.
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389: FDLA 2025 and Jensen Dental Part 2 with Nick Bathija, Shanna Gripp, & Mark Stueck
September 8th, 2025 | 1 hr 8 mins
allow, bond, brushes, cdt, color, courses, creation porcelain, dental, dentist, driver, easy gum, education, free, full service, hand polish, hand skills, harvest, high shine, hybrids, jensen, kol, laboratory, lick, light, mcdonald's, metal finisher, miyo, model room, nbc, quality control, social media, structure, technician, testing, tips, tricks, voices from the bench, webinar, wine, zirconia
We are back with three more conversations from the Jensen booth at the FDLA Symposium 2025. First up in long time Jensen employee Nick Bathija, we then revisit with Shanna Gripp to see what she's been up to and wrap up the episode with Mark Stueck, past chair of the NBC.
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386: Farewell to IDS 2025 & exocad Part 11 with Agata Bak, Iman Ansari, & Larry Bodony
August 18th, 2025 | 1 hr 1 min
9, bite finder, black pearl, ceramic, challenge, clients, coffee, consulting, dating, dental, designer, exocad, gc, growth, iceland, ids, in house, laboratory, last minute, lava scanners, love, managing time, marriage, metal, mill, new suit, outsource, partnerships, president, resume, retired, risk, social media, technician, trade shows, veneers, voices from the bench, walking
All 11 hours of conversations from the exocad booth at IDS 2025 is coming to an end. This episode starts by telling the story of how Agata Bak and Iman Ansari fell in love and eventually opened Black Pearl Dental Lab. Then we meet the man responsible for the growth and popularity of exocad in North America, Larry Bodony.
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342: The Right People, The Right Time with Tom Heusing, Bob Hadley, and Erica DiManna from Aidite North America
October 14th, 2024 | 1 hr 9 mins
china, dealer summit, dental, europe, exocad, expectations, fitness, full gambit, furnaces, grow 3x, history, inlab, kol, lab day, laboratory, marketing, material technology company, mills, norbert, nowak, podcast, printers, right time, samples, scanners, scientist, sirona, smile plan, social media, stock exchange, technician, training, translucency, voices from the bench, youtube, zirconia, zubler
This week we meet most of the team for Aidite North America. Tom Heusing, Bob Hadley, and Erica DiManna come on to talk about running a successful division of Adite by providing quality products and working with good people and partners.
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320: Making It Your Own with Kevin Mahan and Kite Saito
May 13th, 2024 | 1 hr 2 mins
adapting, alloy, arkansas, blues, colors, dental, don cornell, fdla, florida, full arch, fusion, hands on, japan, jensen, laboratory, layering, make it your own, mixing, monolithic, neighbors, podcast, presentation, saturation, slate, smoke, social media, structure, table clinic, technician, voices from the bench, waxer
This week we get to learn about Jensen Dental and all things MIYO with Kevin Mahan and Kite Saito. They talk about the story behind the name, Kite's story into dental, and some amazing tips and trick to "Make It Your Own"
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294: DTG Symposium 2023 Part 4 with Salvador Carrillo and Renata Vano
November 13th, 2023 | 1 hr 8 mins
baja, bella st. clair, brazil, cancun, clear, dental, dental lab association, denture, digital, education, english, federation, high end, ivoclar, judging, laboratory, mexico, pasadena, podcast, retired, san diego, school, social media, teaching, technician, tijuana, travel, veneers, voices from the bench, water, work / life
We wrap up the conversations from the 2023 DTG Symposium with two great guests. First is from Mexico, but now in the States, Salvador Carrillo and then from Brazil, Renata Vano. Both with great and passionate stories.
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275: Lab Day West Coast Stories Part 2 with Heather Voss and Daniel Serrago
July 3rd, 2023 | 59 mins 23 secs
dental, digital specialty, fdlt, fix, french horn, furnaces, handpieces, ivoclar, lab day west, laboratory, mills, nbc, next generation, pfm, podcast, public awareness, recruiting, repair, small lab, social media, surveys, technician, vision 21, voices from the bench, zirconia
Back again at LMT Lab Day West thanks to Ivoclar! This week brings us the current President of the NADL, Heather Voss and the owner of Garland Dental Services, Daniel Serrago.
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258: Love At First Tooth with Lola and Mark Welch
March 6th, 2023 | 1 hr 6 mins
all-on-4, all-on-x, anaxdent, asiga, ceramic designs, dental, dtg, full arch, gc, headhunter, hybrids, implants, instagram, ivoclar, keystone, laboratory, lmt lab day chicago, london, models, nexa3d, open source, pink composite, plant bases, podcast, social media, technician, trees, uk, voices from the bench
This week we talk to the Welch's. Lola and Mark meet while both working at dental labs in the UK. Together they talk about getting into the industry, falling in love, getting married, continuing to work together, and what amazing things they are doing today.
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246: The Colorful Life of a Removable Technician with Ashleigh Henderson
December 12th, 2022 | 57 mins 27 secs
aspen, bench assessment, blood, clear aligners, dental, digital, implants, instagram, laboratory, locators, models, overdentures, patient expectations, podcast, repairs, sameday, social media, surgery, technician, training, voices from the bench, workflow
This week brings us our first technician from Affordable Dentures and Implants. Ashleigh Henderson talks about life in Affordable’s lab, working directly with patients, same days, and so much more.
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240: The Views From Mt. Aspen with Tiffany Carroll & Amanda Shelley
October 31st, 2022 | 1 hr 5 mins
aspen, dental, dental assistant, dentures, instagram, laboratory, likes, military, partials, pod leader, podcast, relines, repairs, social media, technician, teeth, texas roadhouse, tiktok, views, voices from the bench
This week Aspen Dental technicians Tiffany Carroll and Amanda Shelley join us to talk about life at Aspen and creating a TikTok account that gets MILLIONS of views.
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176: On the Frontier of Instagram: Gil Villavecer from Frontier Dental Lab
August 9th, 2021 | 1 hr 3 mins
#wellmakeyousmile, beauty queens, branding, cardi b, celebrities, cosmetic, dental, followers, frontier smiles, laboratory, podcast, social media, technician, veneers, vita, voices from the bench
We've all tried to advertise our lab on social media with mediocre success. Gil Villavecer from Frontier Dental Lab has found the key to making Instagram work. He shares tips and tricks on how to use this free platform and reach a global audience of both clinicians and the public.