As independent practitioners, our dental prosthetists consult directly with patients about their dental prosthetic needs.
You'll provide general dental technical services such as complete and partial dentures, dental appliances, and mouthguards to our patients. You may also work closely with our dentists and dental specialists and help to achieve the patient’s goals with a prosthesis. You may work in hospital, teaching and community facilities and may also take on management or policy development roles.
Working as a dental prosthetist you may need to make and repair the following using a range of materials and techniques:
- dentures
- crowns and bridges
- maxillofacial prosthetic appliances
- splints
- mouthguards.
The materials and techniques may include:
- plaster casting
- electrospot welding
- metal casting
- metal polishing
- wax modelling
- ceramics
- wire bending
- electroplating and sandblasting
- the use of computer-aided design and technology.