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.
  • Read prescriptions or specifications and examine models or impressions to determine the design of dental products to be constructed.

  • Inspect medical or dental assistive devices.
  • Construct customized assistive medical or dental devices.