What are the responsibilities and job description for the Dental Technician - Removable/Acrylic 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 fixed and removable acrylic dental restorations.
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.
- Set up denture teeth for full- or partial dentures.
- Survey models to plan and fabricate partial dentures with metal and/or flexible frame.
- Processing acrylic restorations in the pour and injection technique.
- Fabricate silicon matrixes and indexes.
- Stain and glaze with light cure stain and glaze kits.
- Working with composite in tooth and gingiva colored composites.
- Fabricating complex implant supported restorations with metal and/or polymer structures.
- Bonding titanium bases and abutments to restorations.
- Contour and polish tooth- implant supported provisionals.
- Fabricate night guards, retainers and stents.
- Polish 3D printed restorations, stents, retainers and night guards.
- Bending metal clasps for removable provisionals.
- Fabricating flexible partial restorations.
The Required Competencies and Qualifications for this opportunity:
- Proficient in English - reading and writing
- Full understanding of dental terminology and dental morphology
- Minimum of 2 years of experience in a licensed dental laboratory
- Competent in fabricating full- and partial dentures, tooth- and implant supported.
- Competent in occlusal theories.
- Competent in working with acrylic in the pour and injection technique.
- Competent to invest, press and divest flexible restorations.
- Able to bend accurate clasps on a surveyed model.
- Competent in polishing different removable materials.
The Desired Competencies and Qualifications for this opportunity:
- Ability to identify implant systems by evaluating the impression, model and parts given with a case.
- Competent in fabricating natural and life like aesthetics in wax, acrylic and composite.
- Competent in working with composite.
- Ability to work with a survey device.
- Competent to bond titanium bases and abutments into implant restorations.
- Competence in light cure stain and glaze materials.
