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Dani K.

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🦷 Dental Technician, RDT | @vita KOL | Ceramist | Writer | 📍Toronto
🇯🇵 Studied at Osaka Ceramic Training Center
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Turns out “dental technician” means spending a surprising amount of time brushing other people’s teeth. 🪥😂

It’s not the most glamorous part of the job… but it is weirdly satisfying, right? 🥲

From now on, I highly recommend telling people that’s what we do for work when they ask. It’s a great conversation starter… unless it’s a first date. 🙅🏼‍♀️🤣

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My brain: I like clean, organised and one train of thought at a time 🧘🏼‍♀️

My career choice: Dust in every crease of my skin, noises that interrupt every coherent thought and multitasking across seven jobs at once 🤷🏼‍♀️

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When precision craftsmanship meets the perfect material combination. ✨

Check out this incredible step-by-step documentation of a recent 4-unit microlayered zirconia veneer case shown in the slides!
The natural texture, light transmission, and seamless integration are simply outstanding!

To achieve this highly esthetic result, a powerful trio of VITA materials was used:
🔹 VITA YZ ST - providing the ideal, high-strength translucent zirconia base.
🔹 VITA VM 9 - the fine-structure feldspar ceramic perfectly adapted for microlayering on zirconia.
🔹 VITA AKZENT PLUS - for the final touch, adding depth and individual characterization.

Every detail matters when copying nature's finest work. Beautifully done! 🦷🙌

Thank you for sharing this inspiring insight into your dental workflow and for trusting in the #VITAPerfectMatch, @2thmaker_!

❓ Who else loves the combination of VITA YZ ST and VITA VM 9 for anterior restorations? Drop your thoughts below!

#repost @2thmaker_ [original caption] A step by step on this recent 4-unit microlayered zirconia veneer case ➡️

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Zirconia: VITA YZ ST
Porcelain: VITA VM9
Stain & Glaze: VITA AKZENT PLUS

@vitanorthamerica @vita 💕

#VITAZAHNFABRIK #VITAYZST #VITAVM9 #VITAAKZENTPLUS
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Success isn’t one big decision. It’s thousands of small ones.

Over the last 10 years, I’ve made a lot of them 🥹

💼 Working for free to gain experience
🌍 Travelling the world to learn new techniques
🎓 Spending 3 years completing a Master’s degree, even when people told me it wasn’t worth it.
📚 Investing my own time and money into learning.
🦷 Saying yes to opportunities that pushed me outside my comfort zone.

I’ve been incredibly lucky to have amazing mentors, opportunities and people who believed in me. I’m so grateful for every single one of them.

But none of it would’ve happened if I hadn’t made the choice to keep showing up.

Today, I get to work in a private lab, work with brilliant clients, create bespoke work for patients, and teach Dental Technicians around the world.

And in the words of Snoop Dogg… “I wanna thank me” 🤭 I sometimes have to remind myself of this, when I feel unproductive or low.

So if you’re feeling stuck too, remember this...

The career you want isn’t built in a day. It’s built by showing up consistently, learning new things, asking questions, and doing the work, even when it feels like nothing’s changing.

Take a second to look back. I bet where you are today is somewhere a younger version of you once dreamed of ☁️✨

Keep learning. Keep improving. Keep showing up.

If you really want it, make it happen. 🙌🏼

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Dentistry is like no other 🥴

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We love you Jessica & Matt ❤️

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thank goodness for that 🥲🩻

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My 5 second funny reels get engagement like 📈📈

My image posts (like this one) where I’ve literally poured my heart and soul into a case, and then spent a long time putting the post together? 📉📉

💀💀💀🥲🥲🥲

Does that mean I’ll stop posting my cases to feed my algorithm? ✨absolutely not ✨☺️ Anyone else? 🥴

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Just leaving this here… Swipe to find out why 👉🏼

At what stage are your cases being designed? 👀

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“It’s just a denture…” 😐😐😐

I understand why it might look that way from the outside. The final result might seem simple, but behind every restoration are hours of work, planning, and technical skill.

Dental technicians spend years studying anatomy, material science, digital design, occlusion, morphology, dental regulations… the list goes on.

The craftsmanship behind every case means patients can function properly, speak confidently, and smile naturally. Nothing we produce is one-size-fits-all. Every piece is made for an individual patient and carefully planned, even after the prescription arrives, because our role involves far more moving parts than most people realise.

Yet despite the years of training, qualifications, and dedication to the profession, technicians often remain the invisible part of dentistry.

Those who truly understand the value of skilled laboratory work know that what happens behind the scenes is just as important as what happens in the clinic.

Do you agree?

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Step by step 🤍

See y’all in Chicago! 🇺🇸

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Zirconia: VITA YZ ST
Porcelain: VITA VM9
Stain & Glaze: VITA AKZENT PLUS
@vitanorthamerica @vita
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#dentallab #dentaltechnology #dentalcrowns #dentaleducation #vita

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Swipe to the end to hear the feedback 👀💻

When you overlay the neutral zone impression into your design, you can actually see where those teeth want to live and how the polished surfaces should be shaped for stability. No guessing, no taking your wax tryin on and off to see where the impression was. Going digital means it’s so easy to design around the patient’s anatomy and function 😮‍💨🦷

Honestly… for difficult lower cases, this is such a game changer 🔥

Have you used neutral zone records before?

Is this the first time you’ve heard of it?

Or maybe this your first time seeing it done like this? 👀 (I like to go rogue with my workflows)

If you want to learn how to design dentures digitally to make your life easier, don’t miss my Digital Denture Design course with TPE at @3shapeuk next month 💻🦷✨

Everything is linked in my bio if you want to come and learn with me ☺️🦷 Clinical Work: @drjohnmcqueen Lab: @hive_dental_laboratory

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