How do they match: Medical Appliance Technicians

  • Construct, maintain, or repair medical supportive devices such as braces, orthotics and prosthetic devices, joints, arch supports, and other surgical and medical appliances.

  • Construct or receive casts or impressions of patients' torsos or limbs for use as cutting and fabrication patterns.
  • Take patients' body or limb measurements for use in device construction.

  • Construct customized assistive medical or dental devices.
  • Inspect medical or dental assistive devices.
  • Instruct patients in the use of assistive equipment.
  • Repair medical or dental assistive devices.