Displaying Episode 1 - 10 of 23 in total of Voices from The Bench with the tag “teaching”.
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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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391: Amy Helayel & Todd Hydock: Viva Las Locators with Zest
September 22nd, 2025 | 1 hr 7 mins
abutments, ce credits, cement, clinical help, communicate, conversions, cross train, david bowie, dental, education, expert, fixed, foot tattoo, housings, inserts, john madden, laboratory, las vegas, locator, milled, october 11, online, oring, sales, speaking, surgical, teaching, technician, van, voices from the bench
This week we talk to two past lab technicians that work for Zest Dental Solutions, Amy Helayel & Todd Hydock. They talk about the angled abutments, Locator Fixed, and the Technician Master's Program.
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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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Episode 375: IDS 2025 & exocad Part 1 with Hajir Shamil, Daniel Portal, Gerson Prada, & Dr. Diogo Viegas
June 2nd, 2025 | 1 hr 5 mins
ai, all-on-x, approval, bite international, burnt out, communication, dental, dentist, designer, digital, exocad, exoplan, face scanning, firing doctors, florida, ids, implants, ios, laboratory, malo clinic, miyo, paint a picture, partials, printers, single visit, social pressure, south america, spanish, teaching, technician, traffic, utah, voices from the bench
We start the run of conversations we got while in the exocad booth at IDS 2025 in Cologne, Germany. This week features Hajir Shamil from Iraq, Daniel Portal & Gerson Prada from the USA, and Dr. Diogo Viegas from Portugal.
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374: Dr. Andrew Turchin Has the Formula For a Smiling Success
May 26th, 2025 | 1 hr 4 mins
3shape, aesthetics, ceramics, communication, dental, designers, education, emax, exocad, high end, hiring, ivoclar, lab day, laboratory, neck pain, picky patients, porcelain, quality control, teaching, technician, voices from the bench
This week we meet Dr. Andrew Turchin from Aspen Colorado who has developed a mathematical equation that has allowed him and his in-office lab technicians to formulate a simple treatment that creates better smiles.
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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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345: The Golden Age of Photogrammetry with Kamil Zborowski
November 4th, 2024 | 59 mins 49 secs
consulting, conversions, dental, dentures, design software, early cad cam, europe, exocad, full arch, healing abutments, immediate load, intraoral, laboratory, lava, mill temporaries, podcast, scan bodies, service, spain, teaching, technician, voices from the bench, workflow
This week we learn all about the camera that gets implant placement from outside the mouth, Photogrammetry. Kamil Zborowski from WTI Dental Concepts talks about the history, the how, the why, and how to go about getting into this fascinating full arch workflow.
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333: Success in Florida with Dany Sakr, Nick Azzara, Ifet Ahmeti, & Whitney Courtney
August 12th, 2024 | 1 hr 11 mins
3shape, adite, ah ha moments, analog to digital, attachments, cdt, dental, digital, education, email, employees, exocad, framework, generous, high end, imetric, implant, in-office, jensen dental, laboratory, lou, management, millbox, miyo, on-site, partials, podcast, prince, removables, sales person, simulate situations, size matters, solution, teaching, technician, trade shows, voices from the bench, wife
We wrap up our trip to the FDLA 2024 Symposium thanks to the WONDERFUL people at Jensen Dental with conversations with Dany Sakr, Nick Azzara, Ifet Ahmeti, and Whitney Courtney
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331: Fun in the Sun at the FDLA with Enja Dorchuluun, Bart Cothran, & Fernando DeLeon
July 29th, 2024 | 1 hr 15 mins
aacd, aidite, automation, board, bubbles, captek, ceramist, change growth, copier, dental, digital dentures, duplexes, evident, facd, farm, giving back, heat, heygears, hr, hybrids, jensen dental, kol, laboratory, learning curve, miyo, owner, pm7, podcast, president, pucks, reflection, shade, structure, teaching, technician, voices from the bench, wine, wine toss, zircon zahn
Thanks to the amazing people at Jensen Dental, we got to set up at the Florida Dental Laboratory Symposium in Orlando, Florida back in June. This week brings three wonderful conversations with Enja Dorchuluun, Bart Cothran, & Fernando DeLeon
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324: A Raw Look at Full Arch with Dr. Ryan Dunlop and Dr. Johnathan Abenaim
June 10th, 2024 | 1 hr 5 mins
artist, change, communication, courses, dark side, dental, dental implants, digital, do it right, foundation, full arch, hands on, implants, innovating, laboratory, learning, mindset, podcast, teaching, team, technician, truthful, unfiltered, unsponsored, voices from the bench
This week we dive deep into full arch dentistry with Dr. Ryan Dunlop and Dr. Johnathan Abenaim. They both teach their own courses, but soon they will partner up on stage to give the clinicians, the staff, and the dental technicians a RAW look into this ever-growing procedure.