Ortho Dental Lab Tech

Ortho Dental Lab Technician

Orthodontic Dental Lab Technician

Full Job Description Are you a highly skilled and motivated orthodontic dental lab technician with wire bending experience? Come join our team CDS dental lab operating in the North Louisiana. We have been in business for over 36 years providing orthodontic and dental practices with the highest quality ortho appliances that create beautiful smiles for children and adults!

Job Responsibilities and Necessary Skills:

-You will design and construct orthodontic appliances used to straighten teeth.

-You will operate equipment and use small tools to construct ortho appliances.

-Excellent hand dexterity and ability to work with small objects is a must.

-Must enjoy working with your hands and possess excellent attention to detail. Other Requirements:

-Enjoy working as a team-player

-Positive attitude

-Punctual

-Dental Lab Technician certificate and/or training as a dental lab technician is a must.

Other job information:

Pay is dependent on experience.

Experience:

Orthodontic appliance wire bending: 1 year (Preferred)

Work Location: Bossier City LA

Estimated Salary: $18 and up per hour based on qualifications.

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Reads prescriptions or specifications and examines models and impressions to determine the design of dental products to be constructed. Fabricates, alters, and repairs dental devices such as dentures, crowns, bridges, inlays, and appliances for straightening teeth.

• Tests appliances for conformance to specifications and accuracy of occlusion using articulators and micrometers.

• Places tooth models on apparatus that mimic bite and movement of patients' jaw to evaluate functionality of model. Melts metals or mixes plaster, porcelain, or acrylic pastes, and pours materials into molds or over frameworks to form dental prostheses or apparatus.

• Prepares metal surfaces for bonding with porcelain to create artificial teeth using small hand tools. Removes excess metal or porcelain, and polishes surfaces of prostheses or frameworks using polishing machines.

• Creates a model of patients' mouth by pouring plaster into a dental impression and allowing plaster to set. Loads newly constructed teeth into porcelain furnaces to bake the porcelain onto the metal framework.

• Builds and shapes wax teeth using small hand instruments and with information from observations or dentists' specifications.

Possible Needed/Required Skills/Abilities:

• Ability to work with plaster, wax, porcelain, plastic, gold, and other metals.

• Experience using hand tools for carving and shaping and electric drills, presses, lathes, and high-heat furnaces for completing dental pieces.

• Good vision and color sense.

• Ability to stand for long periods of time.

• Excellent Hand-eye coordination

• Artistic aptitude for detailed and precise work (Crafty, Artistic)

Education and Experience:

• High school diploma with courses in art, ceramics, metalwork, and chemistry suggested for entry-level position.

• Experience in on-the-job training or apprenticeship programs preferred.

• Certification by the National Board for Certification, National Association of Dental Laboratories preferred.

Physical Requirements:

• Exposure to hazards to eyes, lungs, and other body parts.

• Exposure to chemicals and potentially hazardous materials.

• Must wear protective equipment (e.g., goggles, gloves, masks) to protect eyes, handle hot objects, or to avoid inhaling dust.

Additional Information:

This job description is a FULL-SERVICE Lab Tech. There are many departments that conduct one or more of these actions so the position may be for 1 or more of these tasks. Example, there may be a Plaster department separate from the Dentures Department. Each requirement may be different. All are described.