Vanik Kaufmann-Jinoian was born 1958 in Calcutta India, he grew up in Switzerland in a city close to Basel, where he went to school and did his training as a certified dental technician. In the following years he optimized his dental skills in various dental laboratories in Switzerland. In that period of his training he was one year in America to learn the skills of marketing. When he returned to Switzerland he started to to work for the Vita Company. He was at that time the youngest international ceramic demonstrator in the world. He was teaching  ceramic courses around the whole World. In the year 1990 he opened his own dental laboratory in Switzerland. He owns a very high-quality dental lab close to Basel. The dental lab covers all the aspects of modern dentistry. Various dental companies use the lab for testing of new dental materials. Vanik is very involved in the research and development of new techniques he was the initiators for the various CAD-CAM systems for dental labs. Next to his lab, Vanik used to teach at the  mastertechnicians school in Switzerland as an instructor in CAD/CAM. Vanik has also published a book and many articles in different dental magazines around the world and is a well known Speaker at major symposiums. 

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