• Dental technician (m/f).

• 3 1/2 years. The venues for training delivery are the training company and the vocational school.

• Dental technicians work predominantly in commercial dental laboratories but also in dental practice laboratories, dental clinics and in the dental industry.
• Their work, performed on the basis of dental job orders, includes manufacturing fixed dentures, inlays, crowns and bridges from a variety of materials;
• manufacturing removable dentures from a variety of materials;
• manufacturing and processing precision-engineered clasps;
• manufacturing implant supraconstructions;
• manufacturing orthodontic appliances, braces and other correctional appliances;
• modifying, amending and repairing dentures of all kinds;
• modifying, amending and repairing orthodontic appliances, braces and correctional devices;

Dental technicians

• advise customers on materials and their biocompatability and the technical and structural possibilities relating to a planned prosthesis;
• make models using working documentation;
• turn jaw models into articulators;
• measure and analyse jaw models to use as a basis for preparing reconstructions;
• colour match artificial teeth and mount them according to functional, phonetic and aesthetic criteria;
• model teeth, parts of teeth, groups of teeth and replacement tissue parts, taking account of anatomical and functional conditions;
• manufacture connecting, holding and support elements for dentures;
• make one-off dentures, crowns and bridges and also orthodontic correctional appliances using craft skills;
• smelt, cast, process and work metal alloys and plastics for use in dentures;
• coat colour-matched ceramic materials, fire and process them;
• weld, solder and glue materials for use in dentures;
• amend and repair dentures and orthodontic appliances;
• be able to maintain high product quality under tight deadlines.