Job Description
Overview
As a member of the military, Dental Technicians assist and support Dental Officers in delivering dental services to Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) members and, occasionally, their families and dependants.
A Dental Technician has the following primary duties:
- Providing clinical assistance;
- Providing clinical support procedures to include user maintenance and first line repair of dental equipment and disinfection/sterilization procedures;
- Providing laboratory procedures to include fabrication of casts, custom trays, mouthguards and minor repairs to acrylic appliances;
- Providing preventive dentistry measures to include selective rubber cup polishing of coronal tooth surfaces, OHI, and application of anticariogenic and desensitizing agents;
- Providing general dental administrative services;
- Making impressions for study models;
- Removing sutures;
- Applying rubber dam;
- Placing cavity ...