Voices From The Bench

What a terrible week for our world, country, and industry. More and more states enacted the "Stay-at-Home" mandate and dentist seeing only emergency patients, the labs are getting next to no work. We hear every day of layoffs, Furloughs, and closings. It is sad but at the same time important that when the COVID-19 virus starts to "die off", that we are more than ready to get back to being the growing industry that we were just a few months ago. To update us of what the dental laboratory industry needs to know is once again Bennett Napier from the NADL. COVID-19 Safety and Infection Control Guidance for Dental Laboratories Webinar (https://nadl.org/news/#n1248) April 1, 2020 2:00pm-3:00pm EST CARES Act Relief Bill (https://nadl.org/news/#n1237) CDC Update for Dental March 27, 2020 (https://www.cdc.gov/oralhealth/infectioncontrol/statement-COVID.html) To keep a sense of normalcy in our lives, we continue with the original conversations we were going to bring you. This week brings three interviews we got at th