Dental laboratory technicians make and repair various dental prosthetics, including crown, bridge, braces and dentures, from dentists' prescriptions and impressions of patient teeth and mouth. These prostheses are used in place of lost or lost teeth, resulting in beautiful, artificial teeth that are indistinguishable from the artificial teeth that nature gives them.
This is how it works. First, the dentist will produce the product's specifications with the impression or mold of the patient's mouth or teeth. The patient's mouth of the dental technician then creates the impression of an influx of model gypsum and allows it to be set. Next, they put the model in a device that simulates the bite and movement of the patient's jaw, and the resulting model as the basis for prosthetic organs.
Then the technician checks the model and notices the size and shape of the adjacent teeth and the gap between the gum line. Based on these observations and dentists' specifications, technicians build and shape the waxy model that teeth or teeth require, using a small hand tool called paraffin paraffin and paraffin wax. They used the metal framework of the wax mold. They then applied the porcelain layer to these metal frames to the exact shape and color of the teeth. They roasting their China in the furnace and further adjusting the shape and color, grinding and adding porcelain to achieve the sealing effect.
If all this sounds a bit like traditional art sculpture, it should be. Dental technicians are very many artists whose work must be completely natural when it is finally "installed" in the mouth.
In a small laboratory, technicians perform all stages of work on a variety of products. In larger laboratories, they usually specialize in a device or part of a manufacturing process.
How they spend their time:
Build and shape dental models
Cast metal frame for prosthesis and apply it to ceramic or other materials to make prosthesis
To dye, shape and grind the prosthesis with the patient's real body
Use gold and platinum wire to make dentures
Make braces, braces, and other dental orthotics
Annual income: $75,000
