James R. Glidewell

James R. Glidewell is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as the founder and CEO of Glidewell, the world’s most innovative dental laboratory. Spurred by a desire to make rehabilitative dentistry affordable for all, Jim applied a unique blend of technical knowledge, business principles, and marketing philosophies to expand his one-man, kitchen-table operation in 1970 into a multifaceted technology company among those at the forefront of the oral health industry today. Employing a diverse team of certified technicians, engineers, scientists, clinicians, and support personnel, Jim continues his lifelong dream of advancing the materials and techniques available to treatment providers, enhancing knowledge through free education platforms, increasing patient access to premium services, and in growing the careers of the nearly 5,000 individuals come to join him in his pursuits. A respected member of his southern California community, Jim actively supports an extensive array of local and national organizations that provide assistance to underserved children, families, military veterans, and more.

Paul Richardson

Digital Denture concepts are now a reality and available to integrate into your service menu if you are ready to offer a competitive removable solution. Regardless of your removables experience, the design software currently used, mill or print, wax or acrylic, provides customizable denture fabrication without the need of traditional tooling and in-depth knowledge. Learn more about this new technology using 3D software as the digital tool; model analysis, adaptable occlusal set-up options (600+ possibilities), denture contouring, and fabrication. Printed or milled, denture bases can be produced to precisely match unique denture tooth designs within a 20µm adhesive gap. You will understand an ease-of-use concept of bonding teeth to the denture base using a one-of-a-kind bonder and adhesive process without the need for complicated and labor-intensive processing of resin methods. Fabricating digital dentures is now a very reliable process and is truly a beneficial service you need to consider and integrate now!

Program Objectives

• Digital denture transformation into your laboratory or denture clinic
• Understanding that digital technology offers independence and not dependence
• Incorporating removables experience and knowledge into a digital based workflow
• Positioning denture teeth into a natural state of anatomical space

Peter Pizzi

Under the best of circumstances, the transfer of information between dentist and technician for the fabrication of restorations is difficult and challenging. Our educated patients and the advancement of materials have created a need for us to didactically move through the diagnostic process. Communication for both full coverage and minimally invasive dentistry such as Preparation design, Material selection and the importance of color communication can be incorporated into a routine regiment that will enable the dentist and technician to achieve a high level of predictability. The Ground work is set by our ability to understand each material’s optical and functional properties and will be a key to our future success. Dentists and Technicians should drive the restorative market and not the mass marketing of materials.

Program Objectives

• Understanding Diagnostic Driven Materials
• Framework Material Options: Lithium Disilicate, Silicate, Feldspar, Zirconia
• When to Micro or fully layer to achieve desired effects
• Next Generation Low Fusing Material to Simplify Porcelain Layering

Jed Archibald

Jed started training to be a dental technician at Archibald Associates when he was 15. Archibald Associates was and is the private in-house laboratory for Dr. Gordon Christensen. It also was a private dental laboratory school were at the age of 18 Jed formally started Instructing at the school. Archibald Associates and Christensen Prostodontics is also where CRA (now CR) started.

Through that environment, Jed has had the opportunity to be part of many groundbreaking products we know today. Products such as, Creation, 3D Master, Empress, SmileLine, Initial, e.max and many of the processes that accompany them.

In 2011 Jed formally opened Archibald Digital as the digital arm to Archibald Associates. With Jed’s unique background in traditional dental technology, his mission has always been to hold digital processes and materials to the same standards that highly trained craftsman have established. That higher standard has created breakthroughs in CAD/CAM, Sintering, 3D Printing with more exciting developments to come.

jed.archibald.dental@gmail.com

archibalddigital.com

801 8855254

Hugo Hebert

Hugo graduated in 2015 from Cégep Édouard-Montpetit in Quebec. Prior to that, he went on several congress, lectures and courses to improve his skills and knowledge in fixed prosthetics. He has been working full time in a private laboratory since 2015 where he gained most of his experience in ceramic layering and color understanding. He became in 2018, an official member of the Dental Technician Guild and has also been published in DTG magazine, Quintessence France and Quintessenz Zahntechnik.