Webinar: Dental Experts Roundtable
Join some of our most expert users and learn how they’re utilising the latest and greatest Asiga products in their lab or practice to achieve consistent, accurate, and high-quality results.
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A recording of this webinar is available to watch on demand.
Speakers
Matthias Zimmerer
Growing up in his parents’ dental laboratory, the path to dental technology was very obvious for Matthias Zimmerer. The apprenticeship was followed by the successful completion of parts II-IV of the master craftsman’s diploma in the dental technician trade. Afterwards he worked in various jobs in commercial and practice laboratories.
Since 2013 he has been laboratory manager in the practice laboratory of dentist Dr. Heidi Edl in Erbendorf, whose focus is on digital dentistry. Both the integration of the digital workflow to the maximum extent and the further development of the digital production possibilities are part of his everyday life there, in order to optimally tailor aesthetic dentures to the needs of the patients.
He takes great pleasure in integrating new technologies into existing, well-established processes and in constantly optimising them. He sees many possibilities for change and further development in digital dental technology, which he puts to the test every day.
Matthias also had the ingenious idea of starting the Asiga Dental Experts page on Facebook!!
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Dr. Ahmad Al-Hassiny
Dr. Ahmad is the founder and director of the Institute of Digital Dentistry (iDD) and a pioneering force in the field. Dr Ahmad Al-Hassiny is recognized globally as a leader in digital dentistry, intraoral scanners, and 3D printing, carrying out lectures as a KOL for multiple leading companies. He is one of the few in the world who owns and has tested all mainstream scanners and CAD/CAM systems in his clinic. He is a driven and passionate full-time dentist from New Zealand. After graduating from the University of Otago with First Class Honours, Dr Ahmad has worked alongside his father in Wellington, NZ, where they run 39 dental chairs and a digital dental lab. Dr. Ahmad is passionate about education, which is why he started the Institute of Digital Dentistry, a world-leading digital dentistry education provider recognized globally in the CPD/CE space. iDD offers live courses, masterclasses, and an online training platform to ensure that dentists worldwide have easy and affordable access to the best digital dentistry training possible. Dr Ahmad understands the benefits of digital dentistry and how this can positively change daily dental practice. He has carried out many aspects of complex digital dentistry, including CAD/CAM full mouth rehabilitation, digital smile design, and full arch implant treatment, all done in-house. Dr Ahmad helps empower clinicians to bring their practice and procedures into the digital age, which enables them to reap the many benefits of CADCAM and digital dentistry.
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Tanya Little
Tanya Little graduated with top honors and awards and has been practicing the art of smiles since 2002. She has learned that not all dentures are created equally. Tanya continues to travel the world to learn the newest and greatest denture techniques! During her clinical and technical training in Germany, Tanya was asked to be part of the design process for a new line of denture teeth and she looks forward to providing insight into this unique opportunity! In addition to European and Japanese training, Tanya has been invited twice to the Zimmer One Dental Implant Centre in California as well as to Phoenix, Arizona where she acquired the first digital denture scanner to be used in the lower mainland! Tanya has been able to combine clinical and lab techniques learned from around the world to provide the best dentures possible. She will continue to stay at the forefront of denture options for the patients of Envision Denture Centre. Everyone wants comfort, function, and aesthetics in their dentures.
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Dr. Andrew Ip
Handy Andy is a Sydney-based private general dentist who presents regularly on dental 3D printing. What started off as a hobby several years ago has now become a full-time passion for Dr Andrew Ip, a Sydney-based general dentist with a special interest in digital dentistry.
His passion has taken him all around the world from the US, Europe, Asia and of course across Australia. He also runs an increasingly popular Youtube channel that showcases easy-to-follow dental design tutorials.
From simple models to printing zirconia, Dr Ip has printed almost all printable dental applications available in the global market and is proud to have operated close to 30 different 3D printers in his career, a number that will inevitably increase.
Dr Ip has been teaching dentists, technicians and their support staff how to integrate additive technologies to their workplaces for several years and is a speaker for several digital dentistry-related companies. His knowledge is based on true hands-on experience. When he’s not designing a surgical guide, printing a splint or polishing a printed crown, you can find him glued to a screen designing printable table organisers or nesting a helmet for his cats in a slicer.”
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Marithe Baclagon
Marithe, aka: “InnovativeToothFairy” works at a high volume 30,000sq ft general and cosmetic dental practice in Springfield, Missouri at a fully digital in-house laboratory where she specializes in all fixed hybrid restorations, as well as 3D printing various appliances.
Marithe Baclagon is a Certified Dental Technician as well as a technologist, and graduated with her Master’s Degree in Instructional Design and Technology. She was a ceramist and a digital technician for a family owned lab for 8 years, then moved to dental education for 3.5 years at VCU School of Dentistry where she helped teach the lab side of digital dentistry. Marithe then found her passion for full arch dentistry and left to work in private practice as an in-house lab technician. Marithe worked as a lab manager at Full Implant Choice as well as a certified instructor for the Atlantic Implant Institute teaching about same day immediate load all-on-X surgery with implementation of full facial scanning and photogrammetry. Then, she got an even more amazing opportunity to go work for a cutting edge, one-of-a-kind dental practice. Innovative Dental sees 160 patients a day with an intake of 100 new patients a week.
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Dr. Jack Milgate
Dr Jack Milgate is an accomplished dentist originally from Echuca-Moama in country Victoria, who has fulfilled a long-held dream by establishing his own clinics in places he truly loves. He opened Barwon Heads Dental in 2020 and expanded with Queenscliff Family Dental in 2025, continuing his commitment to providing exceptional dental care to local communities.
With a passion for modern, digital and minimally invasive dentistry, Jack believes no two treatments or patients are the same. He prides himself on offering tailored, common-sense options combined with exceptional communication to achieve ideal results for every patient.
As one of Australia’s leading general Invisalign® providers, Jack lectures extensively as a Clinical Speaker for Invisalign®, sharing his expertise with practitioners both nationally and internationally on how to create the perfect smile. He is a recognised expert in intra-oral scanning techniques and procedures and has contributed case studies and professional advice to dentists and companies around the world.
Jack was also involved with 3DGuard, a cutting-edge digital mouthguard company that provides innovative technology to AFL and NRL teams as well as international UFC competitors.
Outside of dentistry, Jack enjoys the occasional golf, a hit of tennis, and tinkering with old cars and motorcycles. He’s happily married to Phoebe Sinnett, with whom he tied the knot on 29 February 2020, and they welcomed their daughter, Eleanor, in December 2022.
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