Description
Fabricate, customize, and repair complete and partial dentures and related removable prosthetics per dentist prescriptions, ensuring proper function, fit, and esthetics.
- • Read prescriptions and examine impressions, models, or scans to plan denture design and setup.
- • Fabricate, reline, rebase, and repair complete and partial dentures, immediate dentures, and overdentures.
- • Verify fit, occlusion, and vertical dimension using articulators, facebows, and measuring devices.
- • Mount casts on articulators to simulate jaw movement and evaluate function.
- • Mix and process acrylics, resins, and stones; flask, pack, and cure dentures.
- • Prepare and fit metal partial frameworks; design rests, clasps, and major connectors.
- • Trim, finish, and polish dentures and frameworks to lab standards.
- • Pour impressions and fabricate accurate working and master casts.
- • Invest, boil out, and deflask processed cases safely and efficiently.
- • Set denture teeth in wax, establish occlusal schemes, and contour wax for try-in.
- • Apply and sculpt wax over setups and frameworks prior to processing.
- • Repair fractures, chips, and voids using acrylic resins.
- • Fabricate custom trays, record bases, and wax bite rims.
- • Contour and characterize gingival anatomy in wax and acrylic for esthetics.
- • Train or supervise junior denture technicians and bench workers.
- • Rebase, reline, and replace missing teeth or wire reinforcements as needed.
- • Shape and solder wire, mesh, or reinforcement for dentures and partials.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
