Voices from The Bench

Check out https://www.thepartyenamel.com/ for some amazing courses and to maybe teach one of your own! In 1999, Dr. Jiro Abe revolutionized denture technology with his lower suction denture technique. Now only a handful of technicians and clinicians are trained to teach the technique. One that can teach both the clinical and technical side of suction dentures is Paul McNally, a denturist out of Ir...

This week we bring you 3 more amazing conversations we got while attending the Ladies of the Mill Summit back in July. Live from the Preat booth Elvis talked to past podcast guest Kelly Simpson. Minutes after doing her first on-stage presentation, Kelly talks about speaking in front of other and what she has been up to since last on the podcast. Then we chat with Jen Ludwing. Jen is a regional man...

Back in July, there was a meeting called the Ladies of the Mill Summit. This yearly meeting is all about celebrating and supporting females in the dental laboratory industry. Full of motivating and inspiring speakers, Elvis got to record with a bunch of attendees at the Preat booth. First up is half of the owners of Likelike Dental Studios , Carrie Ling. Carrie talks about getting their lab starte...

Two brothers with extensive dental experience put together Blender for Dental , an affordable alternative to the other design software in our industry. Brothers Wolfgang & Michael Teiniker learned the craft in South Africa. Wolfgang continued his career in Germany, and then they connected again in New Zealand. You can say they know a thing of two about dental technology. Michael started to pla...

Steve Campbell, owner of Nexus Dental Laboratory in the UK, joins us for an amazing conversation. Steve talks about the industry's history, how the government stepped in to help, how he learned his skills as an apprenticeship, opening his fully digital lab, using ExoCAD, and being an advocate for the digital workflow to make dental technology "sexy" to the next generation. ExoCAD is excited to pre...

We are excited to have on good friend and supporter and advocate of our industry, Tony Prestipino from Artifex Dental Laboratory . Tony comes on to talk about how he learned about the profession, having a brother who is a prosthodontist and another bother in the lab business, getting into implants, and taking an All-on-X procedure and patenting the procedure. It’s hard to find anyone so willing to...

What?!?! Another Implant company? You bet. But this one is different. Patrick Dewey, the General Manager from S.I.N. Dental USA and Blake Roney, the Digital Solutions Specialist come on the podcast to talk about the companies dedication and process to a completely modeless digital full arch workflow. Patrick and Blake talk about the process and while using Photogrammetry with the Imetric4D , an In...

This week brings the amazing story of Edgar Munoz. Edgar played baseball and had dreams of going professional. A couple of bad knees later and Edgar had to rethink his life. Luckily for our industry and thousands of patients, Edgar stumbled into dental technology. Opening his own lab in his garage and a lot of hard work, Edgar is now the owner of Elite Dental Studios . Partnering with Noritake to...

Before we get stated with this jam packed and full filled episode, we have to get some links to you: Information and how to register for the Race For the Future 8.0 August 28th Information and registration for the Chicago Triathlon Register for the FREE Education Day on August 27th (COME TO THE DINNER!) Donate to Barb or Team Voices From the Bench!!!! Alright. Now that we have all the important li...

Join us at the Ladies of the Mill Summit - Nashville - July 21 & 22 Live, hands-on course using anaxgum pink composite and PREAT Corp. implant components to create lifelike gingiva on implant prosthetics - During LOTM on Saturday July 22 We love our stories of family taking over the family lab. One such family is the Perricone's. Andrew Perricone grew up in his mother's lab. Even after going t...

DONATE to Barb Warner or Team Voices From the Bench for the Race For the Future 8.0 Participate or cheer the racers at the Race For the Future 8.0 - August 28th - Chicago Come to the FIRST and FREE Education Day - August 27th - Chicago Most labs have 3shape running a majority of their digital workflow. Do you know the history of 3shape? Do you know why 3shape does what it does? Rune Fisker comes o...

Join us at the Ladies of the Mill Summit - Nashville - July 21 & 22 Live, hands-on course using anaxgum pink composite and PREAT Corp. implant components to create lifelike gingiva on implant prosthetics - During LOTM on Saturday July 22 Imagine having to teach over 80 students partial design during covid. That is exactly what Dr. Wendy Clark had to do. Heading up the Pre-doctoral Removable Pr...

The Foundation for Dental Laboratory Technology : Race For the Future 8.0 August 28th Most technicians are very dedicated and passionate about what they do. That is what makes our industry so amazing. But sometimes there is a technician that we run into that is so passionate that it really stands out and shows really how amazing we are. Nicole Jackson came into this industry be seeing a patient re...

The Maine Licensed Denturist Association June 10 - 11 National Denturist Association October 12 - 14 We’ve had many Denturists on the podcast in the past. It’s a great career path for dental technicians looking for the next step. Unfortunately, Denturism is not legal in many states. Luckily for the residents of Maine, Denturism is legal there. We are joined again by multi-episode guest, Patrick Al...

There are a few in our industry that create valuable content geared to the dental laboratory industry. If you have spent more than 10 minutes on a social media page for dental technology, you have probably heard of Minh Tran. Minh is a second generation lab technician that also has a passion for creating videos and sharing knowledge that he has picked up over the years on dentaltechtips.com . Minh...

Send us your audio thanks! Just record yourself on your phone or computer and email it to info@voicesfromthebench.com and we will play it in the month of June to celebrate CDT and Dental Technician Appreciation month! Have you got your limited edition VFTB shirt featuring the triathlon of dental lab? Click here to get a Race For the Future 8.0 VFTB shirt raising money for The Foundation For Dental...

Have you got your limited edition VFTB shirt featuring the triathlon of dental lab? Click here to get a Race For the Future 8.0 VFTB shirt raising money for The Foundation For Dental Technology featuring art by Mackenzie Mayer ORDER BEFORE MAY 28, 2022 Participate or Cheer on the racers in Chicago at the Race For the Future 8.0 August 28, 2022 We are STILL bringing y'all amazing Texas size recordi...

Race For the Future 8.0 VFTB shirt raising money for The Foundation For Dental Technology featuring art by Mackenzie Mayer ORDER BEFORE MAY 28, 2022 Participate or Cheer on the racers in Chicago at the Race For the Future 8.0 August 28, 2022 When Texans do anything, they do it big. This year’s conference definitely didn’t disappoint. The podcast was set up next to the Preat booth all weekend recor...

One of the main points of the podcast is to feature anyone in our industry. Unbiased and uncensored. Too keep a clean rating on podcast apps, we bleep out words considered “bad”. That does not stop us from talking to technicians from around the world no matter their style of communication. When we discovered Sandra Puurits on Instagram, we knew it would be a “bleepful” episode that would be real a...

Come see Elvis at the Preat booth during LMT Lab Day West May 20 - 21 Register for Elvis' course "Using Your Awkwardness to Market Your Lab" This week brings a great removable technician out of Leicester, UK. Deepa Bharakhda didn't know what she wanted to do with her life. After finding a dental technology course at a university and studying a year in India, Deepa found her passion for removables....

When we see unique and interesting labs online, we get to have them on the podcast and talk to them. That is exactly what we did when we saw The Hive on Instantgram . Turns out it owned by Eleanor and Emily Pittard. Together they have created an amazing award winning (really) dental laboratory in Dorset, UK. Emily is a Clinical Dental Technician (think denturist) and Eleanor is the mastermind behi...

Did you miss LMT Lab Day Chicago ? Want to feel like you were there? Did you go and want to go back? We do too! This is the next best thing to it. Three amazing conversation we got while at the Preat booth. First up is Randi & Scott James from Renstom Dental Studios talking about all the growth they have had since the last time we talked to them and what the two are doing while at the show. Th...

It is so good to be among our fellow lab friends. After having no show in 2021, LMT Lab Day Chicago happened with a great vibe in 2022. While less people attended, the ones that came where ready to be out and about and many stopped by the Preat booth. This week we talk to four people that attended. First up is wife and husband team from Georgia, Christina and Brian Heaslip . They talk about workin...

An Angled Approach: 90° Milling with DGSHAPE's C-Clamp Adapter for DWX-52D WEBINAR with Whitney Courtney McCarty and Ian O'Neill DLAT Southwest Conference and Expo April 1 & 2: Dallas / Fort Worth Airport Mariott Let's do the math. 52 weeks a year. 208th episode. Never missed a week. It's the 4th year anniversary of the podcast! Amazing we are still going and still loving every minute of it. A...

Every week we talk to technicians that share their journey to where they are today in the in industry. This week we talk to a gentleman whose journey is an interesting one that allowed him to re-light his passion for the industry. Dennis Kalashnick started on the clinical side of dentistry. It didn’t take long for him to discover he liked the laboratory work more. After years of doing Medicaid typ...