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Dental Laboratory Technician
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 110 days ago
On-site Tampa, FL $56K – $73K Apply by Jun 26, 2026 Dental Laboratory Aid And Technician ISTJ Trades
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Incumbent functions in the Dental Laboratory as a fully qualified and experienced technician. His/her advice is sought on a regular and recurring basis by the staff dentists.
What You'll Do
- →Major Duties: Performs total fabrication of both fixed or semi-fixed restorations, full or removable partial dentures, orthodontic appliances and/or dental splints and obturators.
- →Constructs wrought wire buccal arm clasps.
- →Constructs acrylic esthetic replacements for gingival tissue removed during Perio Surgery.
- →Researches the best materials for use in laboratory procedures involving implants, magnet dentures, permanent soft-liners and light cured materials.
- →Designs and constructs teaching models of different prosthetic appliances.
- →Waxes, invests, boils out, cures and deflasks acrylic bases for partial and complete dentures.
- →Blocks out master casts, waxes complete dentures for try-in.
- →Shapes wax to contours desired in the final dentures, and to the thickness required to maintain facial contours.
- →Carves and contours wax to duplicate the appearance of natural oral tissues.
- →Removes excess wax, smoothes and polishes surfaces.
- →Reproduces dentures.
- →Removes excess acrylic from dentures, grinds and selects methods to simulate contours of natural tissue.
- →Polishes dentures.
- →Preserves anatomical borders developed by the Dentist.
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen to apply for this job Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959 Must be proficient in written and spoken English.
- ✓Subject to background/security investigation Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- ✓Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
- ✓Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP) As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary period or 2-year trial period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
- ✓Upon completion of your probationary period or trial period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓A transcript must be submitted with your application if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education.
- ✓Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S.
- ✓Department of Education from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment.
- ✓You can verify your education here: http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/.
- ✓If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education.
- ✓For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.
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