Hannah Kokovich, 27

While Hannah Kokovich originally wanted to be a dental assistant, she ultimately studied dental laboratory technology at Columbus State in Ohio and was a member of the program’s last graduating class in 2012.

“I wasn’t a great student in high school but once I found what I loved doing, I excelled at it,” she says. And although C&B was her least favorite subject—she planned to go into removables—once she started working as a model technician at Image Gallery in Dublin, OH, she was intrigued by the digital technology used to fabricate crowns and eventually trained as a CAD/CAM technician and ceramist handling posterior work.

“Hannah is an amazing technical innovator,” says Lonni Thompson, CDT, Owner. “She has the capability of looking at a case and methodically visualizing the end result. She then blends her knowledge of both digital and traditional techniques to fabricate an artistic, functional prosthesis on time.”

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