Dental Laboratory Technician

  • Full Time
  • Lusaka

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Dental Laboratory Technician

Requirements:

3 years experience with MOH license

Duties:

Read prescriptions or specifications and examine models or impressions to determine the design of dental products to be constructed.

Fabricate, alter, or repair dental devices, such as dentures, crowns, bridges, inlays, or appliances for straightening teeth.

Remove excess metal or porcelain and polish surfaces of prostheses or frameworks, using polishing machines.

Melt metals or mix plaster, porcelain, or acrylic pastes and pour materials into molds or over frameworks to form dental prostheses or apparatus.

Build and shape wax teeth, using small hand instruments and information from observations or dentists’ specifications.

Prepare metal surfaces for bonding with porcelain to create artificial teeth, using small hand tools.

Load newly constructed teeth into porcelain furnaces to bake the porcelain onto the metal framework.

Test appliances for conformance to specifications and accuracy of occlusion, using articulators and micrometers.

Apply porcelain paste or wax over prosthesis frameworks or setups, using brushes and spatulas.

Place tooth models on apparatus that mimics bite and movement of patient’s jaw to evaluate functionality of model.

Deadline: 28th/ 05/ 2024

Interested candidates should send their CVs

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