Displaying 4 items of Voices from The Bench with the tag "veneers".
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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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357: Jim Thacker is Doing Things Differently at Utah Valley Dental Lab
January 27th, 2025 | 1 hr 4 mins
covid growth, culture, dental, designers, dso, employee owned, finance, hand waxing, hiring, impressions, journey, laboratory, marriage, new doctors, owners, payroll, podcast, posterior, relationship business, scheduling, technician, training, utah, veneers, voices from the bench
This week we meet ONE of the owners of Utah Valley Dental Lab, Jim Thacker. Jim talks about marrying into the dental lab, how they are known for high end esthetics that still does mostly hand waxing, and how they grew the business through referrals and continuing education.
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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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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.