Dental Laboratory Technician Job Description
Dental Laboratory Technician Duties & Responsibilities
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Dental Laboratory Technician Qualifications
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Licensing or Certifications for Dental Laboratory Technician
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Education for Dental Laboratory Technician
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Employers hiring for the dental laboratory technician job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Collage and Master's Degree in Education, Department of Education, Graduate Education, Design, Graduate, Anatomy, Technical, Technology, Management, Writing
Skills for Dental Laboratory Technician
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Dental Laboratory Technician Examples
Dental Laboratory Technician Job Description
- Aid graduate students and faculty members in their clinical research projects and with the development of teaching material
- Maintain and neat and orderly work space, to include the plaster bench
- Communicate with residents and external labs for outgoing and incoming lab work
- Check the outgoing and incoming lab work for basic quality assurance
- Guided Surgery Planning and Manufacturing
- Provide support to residents with designing the implant guided surgeries
- Facilitate the faculty approval process and manufacture the surgical guides using 30 printers
- Complete digital wax ups for selected patients (selected by Program Directors) using advanced technologies including facial scans, printing diagnostic casts, designing dentures, fixed dentures, bite splints or single crowns, or FOP (for selected cases chosen by Program Directors)
- Printing templates, occlusal devices, casts, provisional restorations , and dentures as requested and approved by directors
- Provide laboratory support for clinical cases, including shade alteration, shade selection, addition of porcelain glazing and finishing procedures , metal polishing, and other support duties as requested by faculty
- Dallas, TX 3 vacancies
- Must be a permanent employee of this facility
- Be able to visualize spatial, anatomical, functional, and esthetic relationships at all stages of construction
- Schofield Barracks, HI 1 vacancy
- 3 + years working in dental laboratory as a Removables Technician
- Associate Degree in Dental Laboratory Technology
Dental Laboratory Technician Job Description
- Maintain control over laboratory equipment and supplies, maintain stock at required levels, and assure that equipment is operating properly
- Maintain cleanliness of laboratory
- Perform in vitro experiments using cell culture
- Working with other lab members develop protocols
- Assist senior level researchers on various supervised research projects within the lab
- Carry out routine tasks such as lab/experiment preparation, place orders for supplies, help maintain inventory and place lab equipment in their designated areas at the end of the day
- Gather data from experiments, complete data entry and analyze data in collaboration with senior level researchers - with the intent of presenting research results in laboratory meetings
- Experience working in dental laboratory as a Removables Technician
- High School graduation and four years of experience as a Dental Laboratory Technician, one of which must have been at the Dental Laboratory Technician II level
- Training in an accredited dental technician school may be substituted, year-for-year, for up to two years experience
- A commitment to the principle of diversity, equity, and inclusion
- Ability to perform fixed, removable, and implant prosthodontic laboratory procedures using both an analog and digital workflow to include digital design/milling
- Experience in training and supervising work of others
Dental Laboratory Technician Job Description
- Experience working with diverse individuals and communities
- Knowledge of CAD/CAM systems and the use of design software
- The ability to design and manufacture implant guided surgeries
- Ability to do virtual diagnostic wax ups
- Skill in performing techniques and procedures for fabrication and repair of fixed and removable prosthodontic restorations
- Ability to interpret the prosthodontic laboratory prescription and apply design principles
- Experience in ordering and maintaining lab supplies
- One year of related experience in a dental laboratory
- Knowledge of dental lab procedures, equipment and materials
- Knowledge dental terminology
- 3 years experience in all phases of dental laboratory materials, equipment, and techniques
- Competency in advanced technologies including digital design (CAD/CAM) software programs and 3D printing