Voices from The Bench

We are back from LMT Lab Day Chicago 2023 with an episode we recorded before the epic event. Dr. Mark Nation is a prosthodontist out of Louisville, Kentucky in a practice called Advanced Dental Solution s. Dr. Nation is known for the one to fix the unproperly planned full arch restorations. Working with all the ones that "don't work", he is able to work with patients to get them restored the way t...

Be sure to come see ELVIS and BARB in the IVOCLAR Grand Ballroom AB during LMT Lab Day Chicago 2023 February 24 & 25 Be sure to stop by the Nowak Dental Supplies booth during Lab Day Chicago and tell them you are a fan of the podcast to get a special sticker only for the fans. Be sure to come see Barb on stage and join a great association. The Cal-Lab meeting February 23 & 24 in Chicago! J...

Be sure to stop by the Nowak Dental Supplies booth during Lab Day Chicago and tell them you are a fan of the podcast to get a special sticker only for the fans. 100 years ago a company started making denture teeth. Now Ivoclar is known for some of the best products and equipment for both labs and clinical offices. To celebrate their century of helping us make restorations, they are going all out a...

Be sure to come see ELVIS and BARB in the IVOCLAR Grand Ballroom AB during LMT Lab Day Chicago 2023 February 24 & 25 Be sure to come see Barb on stage and join a great association. The Cal-Lab meeting February 23 & 24 in Chicago! JOIN TODAY! Let's face it. Digital is a majority of our workflow. At least for fixed and it's quickly becoming the workflow for removables. As labs scale, there h...

Be sure to come see ELVIS and BARB in the IVOCLAR Grand Ballroom AB during LMT Lab Day Chicago 2023 February 24 & 25 It's hard to name a company that was hand making porcelain denture teeth in the 30s that is still around today making teeth. One such company is Candulor . This Swiss company is a global leader in products for removable technicians. Joining us is Alexander Ewert, the Director of...

Be sure to come see Barb on stage and join a great association. The Cal-Lab meeting February 23 & 24 in Chicago! JOIN TODAY! Over the years, we have talked to a lot of families in dental. Husband and wife. Fathers and Sons. Mothers and Daughters. Bothers. Sisters. But never have we talked to 5 family members at the same time all in the industry. Let us introduce you to the Szara's (sort of). M...

This is the LAST week to get the limited edition “4 out of 5 Dentist Recommend a Dental Technician” shirt before Lab Day Chicago ! Order before January 22nd. All profits go towards the Foundation For Dental Laboratory Technology . ORDER TODAY!! We love learning about the people behind the Instagram accounts. We have been following the adventures of @RVAtoothfairy for a while. There we can see the...

Get a "4 out of 5 dentists recommend a dental technician" shirt highlighting the LMT Lab Day Chicago meeting! ORDER BEFORE JANURARY 22, 2023!!!!!!!! As we get into 2023, we get to celebrate our 250th episode of the podcast! What an honor it is to bring you so many great conversations with all the wonderful people in our industry. This week we get to talk to Tra' Chambers from Express Dental Labora...

Vision 21 - Janurary 19-21 at the Aria in Las Vegas! Do you remember the early 2010 and doing zirconia? Because milling machines were not yet affordable to most labs, milling centers did most of the work. One of the biggest players back then was CAP (Custom Automated Prosthetics). One of the founders and the CEO was Rob Nazzal. Rob comes on the podcast to talk about getting into the dental industr...

When we think of advances in digital dentistry, 3D printing is at the top of the list. Many companies have entered the field, but only a few have stood out as leaders that changed the ways other companies create their product. Once such company is Keystone Industries . Makers of finger nail acrylics, they hired a lawyer that saw potential. Ira Rosenau admittedly knew nothing about dental. With a l...

Elvis and Barb on episode 362 of Tale of two Hygienist. Listen TODAY! Imagine being a solo lab owner in a town of only 4 dentists… and being related to 3 of them! Meet Anne Koelzer, owner of AMK Dental Lab in O’Neill Nebraska. Anne comes from a family FULL of dentist but decided that her future is in the dental lab industry. After attending lab school and a short time at another lab, she returned...

We can’t believe we have gone this long with out talking to someone from Affordable Dentures and Implants . Luckily Ashleigh Henderson was willing to step up to the mic and tell us all about life there. Ashleigh started as a assistant and soon found the blood to be too much. After a clear aligner company and Aspen, Ashleigh then found her current home at Affordable. She talks about the training, t...

All good things must come to an end. Unfortunately. This episode is finishing the conversations we got while at the Whip Mix Digital Forum back in October. We start with the famous Step Toothmaster Bay. Step talks about his name, his start in the industry, the DTG, and what he is up to now. Then we talk to the man who is putting the priority of training at the top of our industry, James Mahan with...

We continue this week to showcase all the wonderful people that were lucky enough to attend the Whip Mix Digital Forum in Louisville, Kentucky last October. This time it's two conversations, each with a past podcast guest that brought a friend. First up is one of the co-founders of Ladies of the Mill and owner of Oak Dental Designs , Jill Swafford. Jill brings along her first employee, Eiron Simmo...

This week we start our conversation we got while attending the Whip Mix Digital Forum back in October. This amazing yearly event brought so many great speakers and attendees that gave us an opportunity to talk to so many wonderful people in our industry. There is nothing like good ol’ face-to-face recording. First up is the Vice President of Zubler USA , Chris Wilson. Chris talks about a lot of th...

We love it when past guests recommend new people to have on the podcast. This is exactly what happened when Vincent Silvia ( EPISODE 133 ), from Digital Healthcare Computers , went to the UCLA Center of Esthetic Dental Design with a gentleman from Norway. Jorgen Gad, from Artpro Dental Design , comes on to talk about his experiences at the school, lab life in Norway, and how and what it takes to b...

When given an opportunity to learn how another lab is run, one should always listen because you never know what you might pick up. Cirenia Tobon learned the trade from her uncles in Mexico. After moving to the US and running her own lab, she now runs the removable department at Pro-Craft Dental Laboratory in California. Dylan Schubert grew up in his father's lab and after realizing how much he lov...

If you take a normal procedure in the lab, film it, and put it online, how many people do you think would watch it? Well when Tiffany Carroll and Amanda Shelly do that when working at Aspen Dental , they get MILLIONS of views. Tiffany and Amanda come on to talk about how they found their way to Aspen, a day in the life at Aspen, the opportunities provided to them, the move to digital, and creating...

Comes see Elvis and Barb at the Whip Mix Digital Forum October 28th and 29th in Louisville, Kentucky Great show, fantastic speaks, unbelievable content, and a Halloween costume party! We know the big players in digital dentures. AvaDent , Carbon and Asiga printed Lucitone 199, Ivoclar Ivotion on the PM7 mill , Arfona , and the list goes on. But behind the scenes and an amazing technician doing som...

Years ago we talked to a dental technician that wanted a better life for his family. Jeremiah Naas was in Florida with a desire to become a denturist . After years of study and a move to Maine (where it is legal), Jeremiah now runs two practices, but always has a desire to learn more. Enter Finlay Sutton . Finlay is a specialist in prosthodontics known for being able to do the removable cases that...

Comes see Elvis and Barb at the Whip Mix Digital Forum October 28th and 29th in Louisville, Kentucky Great show, fantastic speaks, unbelievable content, and a Halloween costume party! Usually when a dentist starts making their own restorations, they are Cerec crowns. But with all the advances in milling, printing, and now Artificial Intelligence it's becoming easier for clinics to have a in-office...

Comes see Elvis and Barb at the Whip Mix Digital Forum October 28th and 29th in Louisville, Kentucky Great show, fantastic speaks, unbelievable content, and a Halloween costume party! What does a card trick and making a denture fit have in common? Mark Samuel Chan! This week we welcome a Denturist out of Canada that got into the profession because a teacher told him not to be a dentist. Lucky him!...

Come see ELVIS live at LMT Lab Day East - October 1st in Tarrytown, NY Sign up for his presentation "A Couple of Studs at the Bar" Zirconia. Every lab that does fixed restorations uses it. And why not, it's a great material that comes in different strengths and translucencies. But how much do you really know about zirconia? Get ready to learn a lot more! This week we talk to Dr. Rella Christensen...

There is a place in Alberta Canada that specializes in dentures, implants, and the digital workflow. Denturist Luke LaRocque-Walker was working too many hours and needed help. Paul Imperius is a dental technician that went from 80 hours a week to only 40 with a desire to do more. Once they teamed at True North Denture & Implant Centre they started to find the perfect digital workflow. The ques...

Come see ELVIS live at LMT Lab Day East - October 1st in Tarrytown, NY Sign up for his presentation "A Couple of Studs at the Bar" This week we decided to go outside of the dental laboratory industry to talk about another industry that also makes a replacement body part that both has function and esthetics. Zach Hetzler is a Board Certified Ocularist with Hetzler Ocular Prosthetics in Fishers, Ind...