About the show
A weekly podcast dedicated to the dental laboratory industry. Featuring anyone associated with the profession from all over the world. Host are in their own dental laboratory every day making teeth and interviewing people from the industry on their time off. New episodes every Monday morning.
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Episodes
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369: Cal-Lab 2025 Part 2 with Liam Johns, Tom Wiand, Scott Lowrey, and Matt Cushing
April 21st, 2025 | 1 hr 8 mins
acquisitions, aox, arizona, bego, cut, delivery driver, dental, dentures, digital partials, european league, father, finisher, fires, football, framework, full arch, hiring, ivobase, laboratory, lucitone, manager, milled dentures, nfl, phone, photogrammetry, printed flexible, processor, prosthodontist, public speaking, sales, smart denture conversion, steelers, technical support, technician, voices from the bench
We are back with a packed episode from the 2025 Cal-Lab Association Meeting. First up is Liam Johns from Derby Dental Laboratory, Tom Wiand & Scott Lowrey from Wiand Dental Lab, and Matt Cushing from First Choice Dental Lab.
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368: From the 40th Lab Day 2025 Part 4 with Eric Kukucka, Chelsea Homire, & Brittany Mitchell
April 14th, 2025 | 1 hr 11 mins
3d printing, 3shape, 4 days, adhesive, analog, art, aspen, associates, cerec, customized, d3 splint, dental, dentures, design, digital, donate, drawing, exocad, expanded function, facebook, front desk, implants, in-house, in-office, ivobase, laboratory, luciton, mesh mixer, partners, patients, protocols, quality, removable, signature elite, skill, sprint ray, st. louise, technician, the office, trade school, training, vhf mill, voices from the bench
We are back again in the Ivoclar Ballroom at Lab Day Chicago 2025. This week we talk to Eric Kukucka from Aspen Dental, Chelsea Homire a dental assistant turned lab tech, and Brittany Michell, a lab tech that does digital dentures in a 12 doctor group.
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367: From the 40th Lab Day 2025 Part 3 with Christopher Hernandez, Greg Everett, & Joe Braxton
April 7th, 2025 | 1 hr 6 mins
allonx, automotive, dental, dentures, devices, field repair, fixable, instagram, installation, laboratory, mexico, milling center, oem parts, organic growth, pm7, posting, remote help, removables, shipping, sleep apnea, spindle, st. louis, star struck, tcs, technician, tijuana, training, voices from the bench, warranty
This week we bring you another 3 conversations that we got while in the Ivoclar Ballroom at LMT Lab Day Chicago 2025. First up is Mexico trained dental technician Christopher Hernandez, then Roland mill repairer Greg Everett with Denteon, and then we wrap up the episode with the guy behind all the Ivoclar Mill installation, training, and service, Joe Braxton.
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366: Cal-Lab 2025 with Danny Yao & Dr. Russell Crockett about the OptiSplint
March 31st, 2025 | 1 hr 9 mins
3shape, accurate, alan banks, arizona, bring to market, caps, certified, dental, dentures, endo, exocad, fda, full arch masters, grammatry, implants, ios, laboratory, manufacturing, medical devices, outside, patent, photogrammetry, private label, prototype, roe dental lab, sales, sirona world, stackable, straumann, surgical guides, technician, tolerances, trial, ucla, university, verification jig, voices from the bench, waste
Coming to you from Germany with a recording we did at the Cal-Lab Association meeting in Chicago back in February. We are joined by Danny Yao & Dr. Russell Crockett. the creators of the OptiSplint scan jig, and they talk all about their workflow.
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365: From the 40th Lab Day 2025 Part 2 with Julia Glancey, Shavit Kohen, & Christine McClymont
March 24th, 2025 | 1 hr 11 mins
15:15, ai, aligners, all-on-x, ambition, assistant, booth, busy, dental, dentures, exocad, experts, full arches, guided smiles, hader, insights 2026, laboratory, love, manager, medit, new york, owner, phrozen, planning, qualified, realguide, remote, school, self-taught, spark, stackable, technician, treatment planning, voices from the bench
Join us this week for another collection of conversations from the Ivoclar Ballroom at Lab Day Chicago 2025. First up is Julia Glancey from the UK that is a remote designer and Shavit Kohen who owns a lab and is still in lab school! Then we get an update from Christine McClymont from exocad all about IDS!
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364: 7th Year Anniversary: International Style with Renata Budny, Sevastiani Perselis, and Rebca Nikedemos
March 17th, 2025 | 1 hr 7 mins
acrylic, coda, communication, covid, dental, digital, ethiopia, externship, family, first, food, greece, laboratory, mistakes, new york, outsource, patience, patients, semester, smell, starting over, technician, voices from the bench, workflow
Celebrate 7 years of the podcast as we welcome back our very first guest again, Renata Budny. As a teacher at CUNY, Renata brings with her two international students, Sevastiani Perselis from Greece and Rebca Nikedemos from Ethiopia.
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363: From the 40th Lab Day 2025 Part 1 with Vicki Thomas, Becky Tyre, and Katie Rinaldo & Mandy Arena
March 10th, 2025 | 1 hr 3 mins
board members, buy-in, buying power, dental, dentures, denturism, denturist, donate, fundraising, highlights, laboratory, legislative, podcast, radio, savings, senate, sexy, small labs, technician, vendors, voices from the bench
We are starting off all the conversations we got while in the Ivoclar Ballroom at LMT Lab Day Chicago 2025. We have an episode full of past guests with Vicki Thomas with Savvy Lab Solutions, Becky Tyre from LMT Soundbites, and Katie Rinaldo & Mandy Arena with the Illinois Denturist Association.
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362: Josie Schmitz-Burchartz is Marinating in Denture Goodness
March 3rd, 2025 | 1 hr 4 mins
analog, border molding, canada, cleaning, clear dentures, dental, dentures, edentulous, function, impressions, ivoclar, laboratory, marinade, newspapers, passionate, patient care, plaster, podcast, practical, practice, psychology, referrals, small town, suction, technician, university, voices from the bench, work life balance
This week, we sit down with Josie Schmitz-Burchartz, a dedicated denturist from British Columbia, who shares her incredible journey from cleaning her father's lab to running her own thriving practice. Josie discusses the importance of patient relationships, the challenges of the profession, and her commitment to providing exceptional care.
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361: Vladimir Roman is Your Guide to Surgical Guides with Romanax
February 24th, 2025 | 1 hr 3 mins
24 hours, air force, all-on-x, battleships, blue sky plan, bone reduction, boot camp, cbct, computer sciences, dental, dental foreman, exocad, florida, formlabs, implants, inlab, iraq, japan, laboratory, magnets, pat coon, podcast, red cam, surgical guides, surgical kit, technician, texas, updates, voices from the bench
This week we get to meet Air Force trained dental technician, Vladimir Roman. Vladimir tells the story of his time in the service, learning digital, finding a 3D printer, and then opening Romanax that specialize in surgical guides.
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360: Escape Some Workload with Dentscape AI - Ryan Axelson, Bill Chou, & Dr. Sylvie Liu
February 17th, 2025 | 1 hr 6 mins
ai, algorithm, amazon, artificial intelligence, aws, bridges, dental, design, drag and drop, ids, intuitive, lab day, laboratory, learning, margins, meta, podcast, preferences, solve problems, splints, staff shortages, supervised learning, technician, user friendly, voices from the bench
Let's get into what is and what makes AI work when designing crowns. This week brings us the people behind Dentscape AI. Bill Chou, Dr. Sylvie Liu, and Ryan Axelson all talk about what it takes to design 100 crowns in 10 minutes
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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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358: Ryan McEachern Covers It All, From A to Zubler
February 3rd, 2025 | 58 mins 54 secs
3shape, bruxzir, cad/cam, ceramic, dental, development, exocad, faster, full arch, germany, glidewell, heating, hyperdent, laboratory, manufacturing, medit, milling machines, ovens, podcast, redon, research, sales, service, sintering, suction, technical support, technician, testing, voices from the bench
This week we talk to Ryan McEachern, who does sales, service, and support for all the things at Zubler USA. Ryan talks growing up with a technician father, getting into R&D at a LARGE lab, and some of the amazing equipment and materials that sets Zubler apart.
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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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356: Nick Nocito is On a Mission to Reduce Remakes with SS White
January 20th, 2025 | 1 hr 1 min
burs, carbide, dental, diamond, educate, family owned, great white z, laboratory, ndx, nowak, on a mission, podcast, reduce, remakes, root cause, solving problems, technician, voices from the bench, wallet, win-win
Burs. We all use them. Fixed, removable, implants, ortho, and even clinical. But did you know the first company to make burs is still making them. This week we talk to Nick Nocito from SS White Dental to find out how using the right bur for the right job makes all the difference.
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355: Jonny Jakson is Bleeding Purple with exocad and Evolve
January 13th, 2025 | 1 hr 3 mins
buffalo, cad/cam, collaboration, dental, dentist design, design, exocad, family, full arch, hard work, high school, innovative, ivotion, jig, lab day, laboratory, photogrammetry, podcast, purple, sameday, scanning, screws, sponge, super user, technician, training, uncle, updates, vhf mills, voices from the bench
This week we welcome Jonny Jakson, known as "Jonny Exocad," to explore his transformative journey in the dental tech industry. From his family's legacy in dental labs to his innovative work with Exocad, Johnny shares insights on blending traditional and digital workflows. Learn how he's empowering clinicians and training the next generation of dental techs.
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354: John Isherwood & Pat Coon From Ivoclar Are Creating Memories For Lab Day Chicago 2025
January 6th, 2025 | 59 mins 22 secs
3shape, academy, analog, ballroom, chicago, dental, digital, digital dentures, education, emax, globally, instagram, ivoclar, kol, laboratory, lectures, lips, lmt, lounge, mascots, memory, panel, podcast, prime, programs, public relations, sprint ray, technical, technician, training, voices from the bench
Some great people from Ivoclar come on the podcast this week to talk about celebrating 20 years of e.max at this year's LMT Lab Day Chicago 2025. John Isherwood and Pat Coon tell their story, share some Ivoclar history, and give us all the details of what's happening in their ballroom during Lab Day.