377: IDS 2025 & exocad Part 3 with Dr. Manish Chhabra & Tobias Specht
This week Elvis and Barb bring you two more conversation from the exocad booth at IDS 2025. First up is Dr. Manish Chhabra who ran a 300 person design center in India and is now training people with VR. Then we chat with Tobias Specht from Ivoclar all about what they have been working on, what’s new, and how they do a massive show in Germany.
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Show Notes
While fresh back from the Florida Dental Lab Association meeting in Orlando, THANKS JENSEN DENTAL… we are still bringing you conversations from the exocad booth from the largest dental show in the world, IDS in Cologne Germany. But first…
We are many, many months away from Chicago in February, but our very own Barb Warner is going to be the very first female Chair of the Cal-Lab Association that is over 100 years old. Let’s make this the most well-attended event ever. Head over to Cal-Lab.org and sign up for this amazing meeting that takes place the Thursday and Friday of the same weekend as Lab Day Chicago. Let’s all plan to go and support Barb!
Now, first up we chat with a dentist from India, Dr. Manish Chhabra. After going though the school, Dr. Chhabra discovered that he really had a fondness for digital design. So he opened a lab. Eventurally he meets the owner of Leixir Dental Lab Group and formed a partnership to open a design center in India to support the group of labs. Starting with 2 employees and taking it to 300, Dr. Chhabra learned all about training and scaling. Now he has set off and created dgadental.com to train clinicans and technicians using VR headsets.
Then we sit down with someone from Ivoclar that has a lot to do with their success, Tobias Specht. Tobias came on the podcast about 2 years ago and this time stops by to update us on celebrating 20 years of emax , their new Ivotion Printed Base and how easy it is to reline, what Ivoclar has going on at IDS in their two booths, and a new way to mill emax faster. So much is covered, it’s hard to believe it all new from Ivoclar.
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Special Guests: Dr Manish Chhabra and Tobias Specht.