Prosthodontics Dental Lab Technician — Complex Appliances

Veterans Health Administration; Redlands (CA); On-site; USD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Veterans Health Administration in Redlands, CA, within the VA Loma Linda Healthcare System, seeks a dental laboratory specialist to design, fabricate and finish complex dental appliances. The role requires hands-on lab work and collaboration with prosthodontists and surgeons to support staff dentists.

Position is full-time, Monday–Friday, on site at the Redlands duty location. A transcript is required with education-based qualifications; foreign education must be evaluated for credit.

Qualifications

• Transcript must be submitted with your application if you are basing qualifications on education.
• Foreign education requires a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency to receive credit.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with a Fellowship Trained Prosthodontist, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon and General Dentists to design and fabricate complex dental or intra-oral maxillofacial appliances.
• Utilizes knowledge of oral anatomy, tooth morphology and dentition, and laboratory materials, tools, and equipment.
• Constructs dentures, dental splints, obturators, model work for fixed prostheses, and other laboratory products to support staff dentists.
• Pours impressions, fabricates trays, bite rims, provisional prostheses, fluoride trays, night guards, stints and transitional partials.
• Mounts casts on articulators and finishes dentures; provides education and instruction to clinic personnel.

Job description

Veterans Health Administration in Redlands, CA, within the VA Loma Linda Healthcare System, seeks a dental laboratory specialist to design, fabricate and finish complex dental appliances. The role requires hands-on lab work and collaboration with prosthodontists and surgeons to support staff dentists.

Position is full-time, Monday–Friday, on site at the Redlands duty location. A transcript is required with education-based qualifications; foreign education must be evaluated for credit.