Dental Technician

Specialisations: Orthodontist Assistant, Dental Ceramicist, Orthodontic Technician, Dental Form Caster, Dental Mechanic Technician

• Fitting appliances and devices onto patients, testing and evaluating them, and making adjustments for proper fit function, and comfort
• Making or receiving casts or impressions of patients' torsos, limbs, mouths or teeth for use as fabrication patterns
• Bending, forming, and shaping fabric or material so that it conforms to prescribed contours needed to fabricate structural components
• Fabricating full and partial dentures and constructing mouth guards, crowns, metal clasps, inlays, bridgework and other aids
• Examining, interviewing, and measuring patients in order to determine their appliance needs, and to identify factors that could affect appliance fit
• Instructing patients in the use and care of prosthetic or orthotic devices
• Repairing, modifying, and maintaining medical and dental prosthetic and supportive devices, according to specifications
• Conferring with medical and dental practitioners in order to formulate specifications and prescriptions for devices and appliances
• Designing and making orthotic and prosthetic devices using materials such as thermoplastic and thermosetting materials, metal alloys and leather, and hand and power tools
• Interpreting prescriptions or specifications to determine the type of product or device to be fabricated, and the materials and tools that will be required