What are the responsibilities and job description for the Dental Technician - Ceramist position at Zahntechnique?
Zahntechnique is a dedicated team of dental artists who are passionate about crafting smiles – one patient at a time. We are searching for a motivated and creative individual to join our team as a dental technician who will be responsible for creating ceramic dental restorations. This position will require the individual to have 2 years of work experience in a licensed dental laboratory.
This opportunity will include the following critical tasks and responsibilities:
- Read and understand the doctor’s prescription to understand the processes needed to fulfill the requirements of the prescription.
- Evaluate records (i.e., conventional impressions, models and intra orals scans) to check for distortions, pulls or any other discrepancies that may inhibit the ability to fabricate an accurate restoration.
- Perform quality control for incoming cases into the Ceramic Department.
- Fitting crown and bridge margins on tooth- and implant supported restorations.
- Adjusting inter proximal contacts and occlusal contacts on full contour restorations
- Layer porcelain to zirconia, lithium x-silicate and metal frame works.
- Stain and glaze, layered and full contour restorations.
- Contour and polish or stain and glaze provisional restorations.
- Bond implant restorations to titanium bases or abutments.
- Wax up diagnostic casts for treatment planning.
- Fitting of wax patterns to dies and models.
- Contour wax patterns to correct anatomy and function.
- Sprue wax patterns to rings to press or cast.
- Invest wax patterns to press or cast.
- Utilize furnaces to burn out rings to press or cast.
- Press lithium x-silicate.
- Devest pressed restorations.
- Perform quality control for outgoing cases after restoration is finished.
The Required Competencies and Qualifications for this opportunity:
- Proficient in English - reading and writing
- Full understanding of dental terminology and dental morphology
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in a licensed dental laboratory
- Competent in fitting all ceramic and metal crown and bridge frameworks and full contour restorations.
- Competent adjusting and contouring inter proximal contacts and occlusion.
- Competent in layering porcelain to zirconia, lithium x-silicate and metal frame works.
- Competent in stain and glaze of layered and full contour restorations.
- Competent in fabricating fixed implant restorations.
The Desired Competencies and Qualifications for this opportunity:
- Ability to fabricate diagnostic wax ups.
- Ability to fit wax patterns, sprue, invest, press and divest for lithium di-silicate restorations.
- Competence in bonding titanium bases and abutments to implants restorations.
- Competence in contour, polish, stain and glaze tooth- and implant supported provisionals.
- Ability to identify implant systems by evaluating the impression