Education: College/CEGEP
Experience: 5 years or more
Work setting
---------------- Dental practice
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