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.

Responsibilities

• 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 liners
• Placing tempor...