Dental Technician - Ceramist

Job Description

Job Description

Zahntechnique is a dedicated team of dental artists who are passionate about crafting smiles – one patient at a time. We are searching for a motivated and creative individual to join our team as a dental technician who will be responsible for creating ceramic dental restorations. This position will require the individual to have 2+ years of work experience in a licensed dental laboratory.

This opportunity will include the following critical tasks and responsibilities:

• Read and understand the doctor’s prescription to understand the processes needed to fulfill the requirements of the prescription.
• Evaluate records (i.e., conventional impressions, models and intra orals scans) to check for distortions, pulls or any other discrepancies that may inhibit the ability to fabricate an accurate restoration.
• Perform quality control for incoming cases into the Ceramic Department.
• Fitting crown and bridge margins on tooth- and implant supported restorations.
• Adjusting inter proximal contacts and occlusal contacts on full contour restorations
• Layer porcelain to zirconia, lithium x-silicate and metal frame works.
• Stain and glaze, layered and full contour restorations.
• Contour and polish or stain and glaze provisional restorations.
• Bond implant restorations to titanium bases or abutments.
• Wax up diagnostic casts for treatment planning.
• Fitting of wax patterns to dies and models.
• Contour wax patterns to correct anatomy and function.
• Sprue wax patterns to rings to press or cast.
• Invest wax patterns to press or cast.
• Utilize furnaces to burn out rings to press or cast.
• Press lithium x-silicate.
• Devest pressed restorations.
• Perform quality control for outgoing cases after restoration is finished.

The  Required  Competencies and Qualifications for this opportunity:

• Proficient in English - reading and writing
• Full understanding of dental terminology and dental morphology
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in a licensed dental laboratory
• Competent in fitting all ceramic and metal crown and bridge frameworks and full contour restorations.
• Competent adjusting and contouring inter proximal contacts and occlusion.
• Competent in layering porcelain to zirconia, lithium x-silicate and metal frame works.
• Competent in stain and glaze of layered and full contour restorations.
• Competent in fabricating fixed implant restorations.

The  Desired  Competencies and Qualifications for this opportunity:

• Ability to fabricate diagnostic wax ups.
• Ability to fit wax patterns, sprue, invest, press and divest for lithium di-silicate restorations.
• Competence in bonding titanium bases and abutments to implants restorations.
• Competence in contour, polish, stain and glaze tooth- and implant supported provisionals.
• Ability to identify implant systems by evaluating the impression