Dental Laboratory Technician job description

**Overview**

Affordable Dentures & Implants, is the **largest network of dental lab technicians nationwide** . It's time to join our innovative network where you have the opportunity to quickly expand your skills and get the promotions you deserve.

We're currently seeking an **experienced, skilled dental lab technician, with experience fabricating dentures from start to finish** , to work full time in our on-site AD&I denture lab.

**We offer robust benefits that only AD&I can offer** **:**

+ Monday through Friday work week with no nights or weekends

+ Paid vacations and holidays. We offer over one month combined of time off each year

+ No travel required -- Technicians work exclusively with one practice at their on-site lab

+ Generous benefits package, including healthcare and a 401(k)

+ Pay: $20 - $25 / hour

**Responsibilities**

+ **Fabricating full and partial dentures, including, but not limited to, setting teeth, waxing, bending wire, finishing and processing.**

+ **Relines, repairs, occlusal rims and custom trays.**

+ **Full dental technicians also periodically serve as associate lab manager in that person's absence, and are expected to understand OSHA protocol and be willing to cross-train in all areas of the lab.**

+ **Availability to work full time, Monday through Friday, during the business hours of the lab and practice.**

**Qualifications**

+ **Employment experience fabricating dentures from start to finish.**

+ **Same-day denture experience is a bonus, but not required.**

+ **Comfortable working in a team environment to complete cases.**

AD&I Dental Lab careers. Where the lab is truly the heartbeat of the practice. Sneak peak below:

**About Affordable Care**

Founded in 1975, today Affordable Care, LLC is America's largest dental support organization (DSO) focused on tooth replacement services, serving more than 400 dental practices across the United States. Each practice has an on-site dental laboratory, allowing the practice to provide same day dental services including extractions, dentures, implants, and fixed arches. **Affordable Care is the DSO for several top dental brands including, but not limited to, Affordable Dentures & Implants, DDS Dentures + Implant Solutions, and Advanced Dental Implant Centers.** From the Affordable Care Support Center, located in North Carolina's Research Triangle Park, along with field-based teams, Affordable Care provides business expertise and support services to dental practices, taking care of non-clinical duties so dentists can focus on treating patients (visit affordablecare.com ).

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**Category** _Dental Laboratory_

You will be traveling 100% of the time, home on the weekends. Travel will be designated to the South East States, with occasional travel to other geographical areas depending on the needs of the business.

Department Mission:

We are dedicated to developing our network technicians to achieve their highest desired potential. We bring an elevated level of support and guidance to encourage the development of our network and to be an active part of providing superb laboratory service to our clinicians and the Platform of Hope.

Summary of Position:

ClearChoice dental laboratory technicians work onsite at the dental Centers to fill laboratory prescriptions from the prosthodontists. They use advanced technical skills to construct sophisticated implant-based dental prosthetics to exacting standards for fit and esthetics and use critical thinking to develop and share complex solutions with the dentist and auxiliary staff. The Traveling Lab Technician will work under the supervision of the Center Laboratory Manager or may be called to be a Lead Technician in the Center. While work methods follow established procedures and practices, candidates are expected to consult with their doctors and team using a high degree of judgment on a patient-by-patient basis.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Understand and reinforce Infection Control, PPE, HIPAA, and OSHA Safety Compliance Standards.
• Maintenance of all laboratory facilities, equipment and instruments
• Maintain only the highest degree of professionalism and communicate clearly both verbally and in writing
• Support a positive culture with fellow technicians and clinical staff through respectful and appropriate working relationships.
• Proficient with all manufacturing and fitting of all aspects of full-arch dental prosthetics including accurate manufacturing and articulation of implant models, setting of denture teeth, denture processing and all related components and processes.
• Working knowledge of fundamental occlusal principles, schemes and classifications as they apply to the fabrication of various dental prostheses.
• Use of dental laboratory materials such as impression materials, plasters, stones, waxes, metals, acrylics, composites and similar materials.
• Verify work orders and accompanying materials including impressions, bite records, models and components.
• The ability to ensure the accurate and on time manufacture of prosthetics to a patient-driven schedule.
• Denture and All-On-Four type restoration repairs
• Monitoring of all laboratory related supplies and ordering through paper and/or computer-based purchase order systems.
• Teaching and mentoring other technicians and auxiliary staff
• Operate computers and standard office type applications such as web browsers, word processing and spreadsheet software applications as well as dental laboratory specific applications. ● Competency or a strong desire to learn digital processes is a must ● Be comfortable assuming the lead role when the Manager is absent.
• Other responsibilities as assigned

Education and Experience:

• A minimum of seven years of hands-on technical experience is required. Certification (CDT) or the completion of an accredited dental laboratory program is preferred but not mandatory.
• Qualified candidates should have experience and be proficient in full arch hybrid restorations, complete dentures, overdentures and implant based restorative techniques and have strong knowledge of dental science and anatomy and esthetics.
• Must be able to work in a team environment
• Commitment to providing world-class products and high-quality work
• Effective communicator
• Ability to excel in a customer-driven culture
• Able to lift 50 pounds

Working Conditions:

ClearChoice operates two-to-three-person dental laboratories within each of its dental offices. As such, technicians perform their duties in both the dental laboratory and dental office environments.

• Standard Monday-Thursday workweek. May involve Travel on Sunday and/or Friday should the need arise.
• Technicians are expected to be onsite at all times Monday through Thursday. Days and hours may vary.
• Must live/ be willing to live in the Region being hired for - travel is 100% of the time

Compensation

Hour base compensation $36 - $40 an hour DOE.

In addition to your base compensation, depending on position, you may be eligible for a quarterly or annual bonus (potential bonuses are merit based). Medical Insurance Coverage, Dental Insurance Coverage, Vision Insurance Coverage, Retirement Plan (401K) options are provided as an additional benefit of employment with ClearChoice.

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Job Category:
Academics (Non-Faculty Only)

Organization:
SOD - Restorative Lab - Director

Location/s:
Main Campus Jackson

Job Title:
Dental Lab
Technician-Restorative
Lab-School of Dentistry

Job Summary:
To make and repair orthodontic devices such as dentures, bridges, crowns, and braces. To use materials such as gold, silver, porcelain, plastics, and stainless steel to create aesthetically pleasing dental replacements.

Education & Experience
Graduate of an accredited American Dental Association (ADA) Dental Technology Program or High School Diploma/GED and two (2) years of related experience Certifications, Licenses or Registration Required: NA

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
Knowledge of dentals materials science, oral anatomy, and fabrication procedures. Artistic skills. Verbal and written communication skills. Ability to recognize very fine color shadings and variations in shape. Ability to pour and mount casts.Responsibilities
Determines the design of dental products by reading prescriptions or specifications and examination of models and impressions.Fabricates, alters, and repairs dentals 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 mimics bite and movement of patient's jaw.Melts metals or mixes plaster, porcelain, or acrylic pastes; pours materials into molds or over frameworks in order to form dental prostheses or apparatus. Removes excess metal or porcelain and polishes surfaces of prostheses or frameworks.Creates a model of patient's mouth by pouring plaster into a dental impression and allowing plaster to set; bakes porcelain onto metal framework.Builds and shapes wax teeth, using small hand instruments and information from dentist specifications.The duties listed are general in nature and are examples of the duties and responsibilities performed and are not meant to be construed as exclusive or all-inclusive. Management retains the right to add or change duties at any time.

Physical and Environmental DemandsRequires frequent exposure to unpleasant or disagreeable physical environment such as high noise level and exposure to heat and cold, frequent handling or working with potentially dangerous equipment, frequent exposure to biohazardous conditions such as risk of radiation exposure, blood borne pathogens, fumes or airborne particles, and/or toxic or caustic chemicals which mandate attention to safety considerations, occasional activities subject to significant volume changes of a seasonal/clinical nature, constant work produced subject to precise measures of quantity and quality, frequent bending, occasional lifting and carrying up to 25 pounds, frequent crouching/stooping, occasional kneeling, frequent pushing/pulling, constant reaching, constant sitting, constant standing, frequent twisting, and occasional walking. (occasional-up to 20%, frequent-from 21% to 50%, constant-51% or more)

Time Type:
Full time

FLSA Designation/Job Exempt:
No

Pay Class:
Hourly

FTE %:
100

Work Shift:

Benefits Eligibility:

Job Posting Date:
09/15/2022

Job Closing Date (open until filled if no date specified):