How do they match: Dental Laboratory Technicians

  • Construct and repair full or partial dentures or dental appliances.

  • Build and shape wax teeth, using small hand instruments and information from observations or dentists' specifications.
  • Load newly constructed teeth into porcelain furnaces to bake the porcelain onto the metal framework.
  • Prepare metal surfaces for bonding with porcelain to create artificial teeth, using small hand tools.
  • Read prescriptions or specifications and examine models or impressions to determine the design of dental products to be constructed.
  • Shape and solder wire and metal frames or bands for dental products, using soldering irons and hand tools.

  • Construct customized assistive medical or dental devices.
  • Shape metal workpieces with hammers or other small hand tools.