Welcome to Digital by Design!

In this episode, we sit down with Steven Sandor, VP at VITA, for a wide-ranging, honest conversation about what digital dentistry actually demands—beyond scanners, mills, and buzzwords. This isn’t a product talk. It’s a real discussion about workflow discipline, material accountability, lab–doctor partnerships, and the quiet failures that happen when education is skipped.

Steven shares a career-spanning perspective that connects legacy materials, global manufacturing, and modern digital workflows—while exposing the friction points no one likes to talk about.

We dive deep into:

• Growing up around dentistry, finding your way in, and learning the industry from the inside out

• Why digital dentistry fails when workflow and education are ignored

• The dangerous habit of blaming materials instead of process

• How labs, clinicians, and manufacturers must share responsibility for outcomes

• The reality of teaching digital workflows to doctors with deeply rooted habits

• Why “digital” means something different to everyone—and why that matters

• The transition from analog trust to digital accountability

• How materials must evolve to support speed, predictability, and scalability

• Why workflow alignment beats software preferences every time

• The fine line between innovation and chaos in modern dental production

This episode is for lab owners navigating growth, clinicians questioning digital adoption, and industry leaders who care about long-term outcomes—not shortcuts.

If you care about predictability, education, trust, and building workflows that actually hold up under pressure…  this conversation delivers.