HENRY SCHEIN AND 3SHAPE COME TOGETHER FOR LAB VISION LIVE Leave a comment
An interesting day at 3Shape UK headquarters in Reading where Henry Schein had arranged a very full list of Clinical and technical speakers who presented the digital possibilities for Technicians and Clinicians. Technicians were encouraged to bring a dentist, without charge, to sample the digital potentials and to do so with their technician of choice. A great team building experience for all those who joined in.
It was a relaxed and very enjoyable day with some very good and recognised technical speakers who shared their experiences and knowhow with a considerable number of their fellow technicians and Lab owners. Many of you will have heard some of the speaker before and will be familiar with their message, but each was up to date and very helpful throughout the day.
Vicken Hatsakordzian a very well qualified dental technician, has spent many years working with and marketing digital dental equipment and is the technical Voice of IVOCLAR Digital in the UK presented a clear and very useful overview of milling in the laboratory. He looked at the potential for covering the full range of digital restorations from a single crown through to F/F dentures.
Dan Holbeck who many of you will have shared questions and ideas with, in his role as Lab product manager for 3Shape. Introduced the day and speakers programme and welcomed the attendees with a promise they would not be disappointed. I do believe he was right.
Darren Kelsey a highly skilled CDT with a real passion to provide the very best he can for his patients. Darren has a huge appetite for learning more about his chosen profession and the potential techniques to improve his own potential. His talk on his move to Digital and the benefits it provides for his patients and his technical and clinical colleagues was clearly delivered by a committed and genuine speaker.
Doug Watt a graduate dentist with higher qualifications for restorative dentistry. Doug was awarded membership of the Faculty of General Practitioners in 2005 and continued his restorative training with two years with the Paul Tipton Training in Manchester.
He won the Paul Tipton Training Practical Restorative Dentist of the Year Award in 2009. He is partner at his practice in royal Leamington Spa where he places Implants, enjoys Endodontics and restorative and Aesthetic Dentistry. He is a board member of the International Digital Dentistry Academy. His understanding of the potential for digital dentistry was genuine and encouraging.
Charley Laity is the Orthodontic Product and Training Specialist at 3Shape UK. Providing consultancy, training and guidance to 3Shape partners and customers across the UK and Ireland. An experience Technician with hands on knowledge of working daily with 3Shape Digital in the commercial environment, before joining 3Shape. He presented the Orthodontic potential of digital techniques and covered the 3Shape Clear Aligner Studio, the Indirect Bonding Studio and the Splint Studio.
Alex Mensikov Graduated from Cardiff Metropolitan University with an FDSC in Dental Technology in 2009. Having worked daily with digital techniques he is a passionate supporter and now works with Henry Schein as a lab trainer and a remote support technician.
Stephen Green was an enthusiastic early user of digital techniques with scanning and CADCAM. Stephen, very early, saw the potential for his laboratory with the new digital techniques and has been working with CADCAM for over ten years. He successfully built up his business to a size and reputation to sell it on as a going concern some years ago. He continues to work there and is a soughtafter lecturer on digital techniques and CADCAM.
Stephen Green talks about Modern laboratory business
Stephen Green who is of course a DCP, some years ago studied and obtained an MBA qualification. At the meeting he spoke about his business history and his achievement of building an Award winning, business based around digital dentistry techniques.
Stephen worked very hard but with his business qualification learned well how to achieve his ambition. His Talk titled “A Long and Winding Road,” covered the development and strategic application of his business learning. His awards for Best Team in 2014/15/16//17. Most Innovative Laboratory (3 times). He spoke of the difficulty of raising money which any new business faces but overcame it. He spoke of the resistance to change from his staff and the need to take them with you on the journey. Stephen spoke of the need to have a clear plan and to stick to it. He put in place an education programme for staff compliant with the GDC recommendations both in house and through approved courses and a new staff recruitment regime which involved a bench test and where appropriate, a test period. It certainly paid off with Stephen reaching and achieving his goal. He spoke of budgeting and learning about finance and talking to the experts in whatever field in which he was not trained.
A very useful and thought-provoking delivery of real merit.
