Dental Technician

**Job description: **
- Handle processes such as mixing plaster and building porcelain.
- Match the colours of natural teeth based on photographs and dentist prescriptions.
- Observe, receive, and obtain the necessary information from all relevant resources.
- Develop specific goals through planning, prioritising, and organising work.
- Communicate effectively with supervisors and colleagues.
- Monitor and review information from materials to detect and assess problems.
- Handle and utilise both small and large machinery and attend to the required maintenance, calibration, and troubleshooting.
- Analyse information and evaluate results to carry out solution-oriented strategies to solve problems.
- Inspect equipment structures and materials to identify the cause of errors or defects.
- Develop and maintain constructive and cooperative working relationships with others.
- Identify information through categorising, estimating, recognising differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
- Identify the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking and chunking them into separate parts.
- Scan and reproduce models using CAD technology, Medit scanner, Meditlink clinic/lab, and Rayware software.
- Handle customisation of designed dental products using CAD/CAM technology, Exocad, d3Tool, BlueSkyBio, and Meditlink.
- Read laboratory instructions from dentists.
- Examine models, impressions, and scans to determine the design of the dental products to be constructed.
- Fabricate, alter, and repair dental devices such as crowns, bridges, inlays, dentures, onlays, aligners, and retainers.
- Design and fabricate dentures, mouth guards, retainers, and aligners, among others.
- Create crowns and bridges according to the patient’s case.
- Keep, organise, and maintain dental records and other laboratory documentation.
- Polish and finish all work prior to the patient’s product trials and usage.

**Qualifications/Attributes**:

- At least a Diploma in Dental Technology or 3 years of relevant experience
- Must have 2 years of relevant experience.
- Ability to interact with a wide range of people.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- Able to work both independently and as part of a team.
- Must have advanced level of aptitude for the medical sciences.
- Must have good general dexterity and hand-eye coordination.
- Willingness to learn about business management and leadership skills.
- Excellent spatial thinking and problem-solving abilities.
- Must be detail-oriented and highly organised.
- Experience with CAD/CAM technology, Medit scanner, Meditlink clinic/lab, Rayware software, Exocad, d3Tool, and BlueSkyBio is beneficial.

**Salary Range**: $ 70,000-90,000 p.a. before superannuation

Pay: $70,000.00 - $90,000.00 per year

Work Location: In person