Displaying 5 items of Voices from The Bench with the tag "speaker".
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394: Will Varda Has a Recipe for Digital Succuss (and Scones!)
October 13th, 2025 | 1 hr 5 mins
3shape, accordion, canada, community, conspiracy theories, cooking, cruise, dental, digital, education, fundamentals, fur purse, laboratory, lead dies, learning, mesh, nipples, obsessed, online, philosophy, rdt, recipe, scones, slow game, social media, speaker, technician, voices from the bench, wine, wing it, workarounds
This week we chat with Will Varda from British Columbia — a second-generation dental technician who grew up in his dad’s home lab and now leads the Dental Technicians Association of BC. Will shares incredible stories from his father’s days crafting crowns for Iranian royalty using goat-horn hammers to his own journey into digital dentistry, community building, and teaching others the “recipe” for digital design.
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339: The Jewel of Canadian Dentures with Jade Connors
September 23rd, 2024 | 1 hr 5 mins
all-on-x, authority, braces, canada, curious, dental, dentist, denturist, extrovert, generation, graphic art, laboratory, mental health, natural, nda, paper, photography, podcast, retread, speaker, synchronize swimming, technician, voices from the bench
This week we meet Canadian Denturist, Jade Connors. Jade talks about her journey from art to dental to eventually denturism. It took coming to terms of herself before she could eventually find the career that is both rewarding and satisfying.
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327: Even More from Exocad Insights 2024 with Kristina & Margarita Vaitelyte and Cat Edney
July 1st, 2024 | 1 hr 12 mins
aligners, analog, bright white, can't numb, communication, dental, digital, direct access, direct restorations, direct to patients, drill and fill, efficacy, exocad, exocad art, implants, itero, ivoclar, laboratory, lithuanian, miyo, no walls, partnership, podcast, restorative hygienist, scotland, speaker, teamwork, technician, video, voices from the bench, whatsapp
We are back with even more conversations from Exocad Insights 2024 from the island of Mallorca, Spain! This week we talk to sister's Kristina Vaitelyte, the CAD expert and Margarita Vaitelyte, the Ceramist. Then we find out what a Dental Therapist is with Cat Edney.
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311: LIVE ON TAPE FROM CAL-LAB 2024 with Basil Callahan, Sean Siegel, Jim Thacker, and Jeff Stronk
March 11th, 2024 | 1 hr 16 mins
beard, cal-lab, cnc, dental, disruption, dso, eos, glidewell, good topics, hotel, jewelry, kfc, lab day, laboratory, live band, marines, networking, open forum, peers, podcast, speaker, technician, voices from the bench
For 98 years, the Cal-Lab Association has been holding their annual meeting. Usually held the same week at Lab Day Chicago, now it's closer and better. During the cocktail event we sit down with Basil Callahan, Sean Siegel, Jim Thacker, and Jeff Stronk.
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310: Enhancing Analog with Digital and Artistry with Aleksandra Polczynski
March 4th, 2024 | 58 mins 30 secs
analog, artist, ceramist, consultations, dental, digital, dtg, exocad, face scanner, full arch, hands-on, immediate load, in-office, indiana, kois, lab day, laboratory, opti glaze, painter, podcast, poland, printing, speaker, teaching, technician, treatment planning, voices from the bench, waxing, workshops, zirkonzahn
This week Elvis and Barb talk to Aleksandra Polczynski, who was raised in Poland, but her art got her into a US dental lab. Aleksandra talks about her journey, becoming a ceramist, running an in-office lab, and teaching around the country full arch layering and staining.