Description
Construct, customize, and repair dentures, crowns, bridges, and other dental appliances from prescriptions and impressions, ensuring proper fit, function, and aesthetics.
- • Review dental prescriptions and specifications; examine impressions and models to plan appliance design.
- • Fabricate, modify, and repair dentures, crowns, bridges, inlays, and orthodontic appliances.
- • Verify appliance conformance and occlusion using articulators and micrometers.
- • Mount models on articulators to simulate jaw movement and assess function.
- • Melt metals or mix plaster, porcelain, and acrylic; pour materials into molds or over frameworks.
- • Prepare metal surfaces for porcelain bonding using small hand tools.
- • Remove excess metal or porcelain and polish prostheses with polishing equipment.
- • Create mouth models by pouring dental impressions and allowing materials to set.
- • Fire porcelain in furnaces to fuse ceramic to metal frameworks.
- • Build and shape wax teeth using hand instruments and dentist specifications.
- • Apply porcelain paste or wax over frameworks with brushes and spatulas.
- • Fill chips or low spots with acrylic resins and recontour surfaces.
- • Prepare wax bite blocks and impression trays for clinical use.
- • Mold and contour wax gingiva over denture setups to form full gum anatomy.
- • Train or supervise other dental technicians or bench workers.
- • Rebuild or replace linings, wire sections, or missing teeth to repair dentures.
- • Shape and solder wire, bands, and metal frames using soldering irons and hand tools.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
