Displaying Episode 1 - 10 of 32 in total of Voices from The Bench with the tag “zirconia”.
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404: Rik Jacobs & Jess Gray: Gradient Dentures and Grit: Two Conversations from Lab Fest 2025
December 22nd, 2025 | 1 hr 12 mins
3d printing, all-on-x, analog workflow, dental, dentures, digital dentures, digital workflow, exocad, facial scanning, hard-soft appliances, in-house lab, instarisa, lab growth, lab ownership, laboratory, multi-color, multi-material, night guards, pmma, production dentistry, technician, technician education, voices from the bench, voxel printing, zirconia
Live from NOLA Lab Fest, we talk with Rik Jacobs of Novenda Technologies about a game-changing, production-scale 3D printer that can print full dentures and hard/soft appliances in true multi-material, multi-color—without supports and with massive throughput. Then we catch up with Jess Gray, who shares her journey from front desk to running a fast-growing, digitally driven in-house lab, blending analog and digital workflows, facial scanning, All-on-X, and leadership lessons from the bench up.
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403: Live from Lab Fest 2025: Duff Wilson and the Importance of Good Vendor Relationships with Aidite
December 15th, 2025 | 1 hr 18 mins
aidite, cad/cam, crown and bridge, dental, dental laboratory, dental technology, dentures, design services, digital dentistry, full arch, implant restorations, lab associations, lab efficiency, lab ownership, laboratory, lean workflow, mentorship, milling center, relationship, relationships, removables, support, technician, technician education, voices from the bench, zirconia
Duff Wilson shares his unconventional journey through dental technology—from getting thrown into high-volume removables at a major lab to building a lean, relationship-driven lab that’s thrived for over two decades. Along the way, he breaks down why mentorship, smart workflows, and trusting the right people and products matter more than hype, trends, or chasing volume in today’s dental lab world.
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402: Blake Roney & Patrick Dewey Are Mapping the Future of Full Arch in Microns with S.I.N.
December 8th, 2025 | 1 hr 22 mins
accuracy, cad, cam, cbct, centering, ct-alignment voices from the bench, dental, dental-labs, digital-dentistry, exocad, fitcheck, full-arch, implants, innovation, intraoral-scan, laboratory, micronmapper, milling, multi-unit, passive-fit, photogrammetry, prosthetics, rmes, same-day, scan-bodies, sin, technician, tissue-mapper, verification, versalis, workflows, zirconia
Blake Roney and Patrick Dewey from S.I.N. return to break down their newest innovations in implants, photogrammetry, and full-arch digital workflows, including the ultra-precise MicronMapper and the manufacturing-verifying FitCheck system. They also introduce the Tissue Mapper workflow, pushing the boundaries of scanner-free, fiducial-free, highly accurate full-arch dentistry.
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399: Jordan Greenberg: The CAM Man Can Follow-Me to HyperDent
November 17th, 2025 | 1 hr 8 mins
abutments, amber, angulated, automation voices from the bench, bars, burrs, cad, calibration, cam, cnc, d5, datron, dental, denture, discs, exocad, feedrates, finishing, fixtures, follow-me, grinding, haas, hyperdent, hypermill, imagine, insertion-direction, ivoclar, ivotion, kevo, kinematics, laboratory, lava, machining, margins, materials, milling, multi-unit, nesting, pmma, post-processor, preforms, pucks, roland, roughing, screw-channel, spindle, stl, strategies, technician, templates, titanium, toolpacks, toolpaths, validation, zirconia
This episode features Jordan Greenberg of FOLLOW-ME! Technology, who breaks down the world of CAM software and explains how HyperDent powers mills, toolpaths, and new materials across the industry. Jordan shares his journey through dental milling, the challenges behind emerging workflows like angulated screws and milled dentures, and why CAM is the quiet engine that makes modern digital dentistry possible.
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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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359: Milling a Better Experience with Keith Clements, Nick Pizzo, & Mo Whitlock from Amann Girrbach
February 10th, 2025 | 1 hr 5 mins
ag360, amazon, artex articulator, austria, camera, champagne, chicago, clinical, culture, dealers, dental, distribution, energy, experience, hand mill, in stock, lab day, laboratory, matik, matron, millercoors, milling machines, motion, party, podcast, prime, pucks, raving fans, remote repair, service, teamwork, technician, voices from the bench, zirconia
Amann Girrbach is known for its great mills, but a new team of Keith Clements, Nick Pizzo, (along with an ol' favorite) Maurice "Mo" Whitlock come on to talk about taking the customer experience and service to a new level.
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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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330: The Final More From exocad Insights 2024 with Chuck Genco, Yousef Ibrahim, Maher Al Hanfeish, Jen Ludwig, and Lindsey Rowan
July 22nd, 2024 | 1 hr 7 mins
10k, 5k, ai, all-on-4, cdt, cheerleading, corus, dental, digital, dso, dtx, efficiency, exocad, fort worth, fundraising, grants, implants, ivoclar, laboratory, leadership, miyo, podcast, raising money, scanning, solutions, sponsorships, support, technician, texas, time to teeth, triathlon, van hook, voices from the bench, warranty, workflow, zirconia
All good things must end as we wrap up the final conversations from exocad Insights 2024 with Chuck Genco, Yousef Ibrahim, Maher Al Hanfeish. Then we tack on a conversation about the Race For the Future with Jen Ludwig and Lindsey Rowan.
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315: Lab Day Chicago 2024 Act 3 with James & James Angelone, Patrick Coon, and Peggy Alexander
April 8th, 2024 | 1 hr 17 mins
air force, alabama, apprentice, assistant, biology, buffalo, chicago, civilian, communication, competition, dental, dental hygiene, dentures, education, hog, iraq, ivoclar, ivotion, lab day, laboratory, lithium disilicate, pm7, podcast, pr5, print, r&d, roe dental lab, smart denture conversion, sweet home alabama, teamwork, technician, texas, too old, voices from the bench, zirconia
Back AGAIN in the Ivoclar Ballroom at LMT Lab Day Chicago 2024 with James (The Denture man) Angelone and his son James Angelone, Patrick Coon from Ivoclar, and Peggy Alexander, a clinical educator at the University of Texas
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292: DTG Symposium 2023 Part 2 with Shelia Raquel & Quint Whipple
October 30th, 2023 | 1 hr 1 min
air force, coin, competition, dental, dental assistant, dentist, education, female, hygienist, laboratory, las vegas, lvi, military, new orleans, occlusion, podcast, school, stories, technician, voices from the bench, wife, zirconia
This week we are back at the 2023 DTG Symposium with Shelia Raquel from White Peaks Dental Solutions USA and Quint Whipple, the man behind the DTG coin and so much more.