Work setting

• Dental practice

Responsibilities

Tasks

• Design dental devices
• Fabricate and repair crowns, bridges or implants
• Modify dental devices including full or partial dentures, orthodontic appliances, inlays, onlays, clasps and bands
• Prepare plaster models and moulds
• Train other dental technicians
• Cast gold or metal alloys for bridges and denture bases
• Perform administrative functions for the dental laboratory
• Maintain and order supplies
• Mould wax over dentures set-up
• Finish metal framework of dentures
• Prepare wax bite-blocks and impression trays
• Pack plastic material in moulds to form full or partial dentures
• Make orthodontic bands from metal and alloys
• Polish and buff dentures

Experience and specialization

Technical expertise (dental)

• Waxing-up
• Casting
• Polishing

Area of specialization

• Full dentures
• Partial dentures
• Chrome castings

Additional information

Security and safety

• Criminal record check

Personal suitability

• Client focus
• Efficient interpersonal skills
• Flexibility
• Judgement
• Team player