Sebastien Mioranza Takes Coveted Top Spot in Panthera's Fifth Master Cup Competition

By Kim Molinaro

Posted Nov 16, 2022 in Labs & Profiles

At a festive September ceremony complete with confetti and champagne at Panthera’s headquarters in Quebec, the company announced the grand prize winner of its 2022 Master Cup Competition: Sebastien Mioranza, a technician with 23 years’ of international experience. Trained in France, he has worked in laboratories in St. Maarten, Russia and Germany and is now a technician at Isabella Laboratory in Lausanne, Switzerland.


Mioranza triumphed over nine other finalists in this year’s challenge: to fabricate a complex complete denture case including a double structure milled bar incorporating MK1 and CM Loc attachments on the upper and a fixed wraparound bar for the lower; all participants were given complete instructions and the materials needed to complete the case. A panel of judges—including Dr. Miles Reed Cone, Dr. Michael Tholey, Ioulianos Moustakis, Jeffrey Dugre and Bernard Guggisberg—blindly evaluated the submissions based on the...

Please Log In or Sign Up (it's free) to read the rest of this article
About The Author

  • Kim Molinaro

    Managing Editor at LMT Communications, Inc. · West Hartford, CT

    In her 25+ years with LMT, Kim has managed to combine her creative flair—infusing energy into our content and orchestrating some of our most popular theme issues—with the practical focus of keeping our processes...

Please Log In or Sign Up to post to this article