Job Description
Additional Skills
- Maintain and order supplies
- Perform administrative functions for the dental laboratory
- Train and supervise other dental technicians or dental laboratory assistants
Area of Specialization
- Partial dentures
- Orthodontic appliances
- Gold dies and goldwork
- Full dentures
- Crowns and bridges
- Chrome castings
- Ceramic or porcelain application
Work Setting
- Independently owned business
- Commercial dental laboratory
Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Repetitive tasks
- Manual dexterity
- Attention to detail
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Sitting
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Tight deadlines
Technical Expertise (dental)
- Waxing-up
- Polishing
- Plastering
- Packing
- Assembly
Personal Suitability
- Effective interpersonal skills
- Flexibility
- Team player
- Client focus
- Judgement
Dental Technologists and Technicians Specific Skills
- Design, fabricate or repair dental devices
Laboratory Assistants Specific Skills
- Prepare wax bite-blocks and impression trays
- Prepare plaster models and moulds
- Polish and buff dentures
- Make orthodontic bands from metal and alloys
- Finish metal framework of dentures
- Cast gold or metal alloys for bridges and denture bases
- Mould wax over dentures set-up
- Pack plastic material in moulds to form full or partial dentures
About Watersedge Dental Laboratory Inc
Watersedge is a full-service, family-owned and operated dental laboratory located in Ottawa, Canada. We opened our doors in 2013 with just 14 employees and have quickly grown to over 40 employees. We serve hundreds of dentists in Ottawa and the surrounding area, and our rapid growth has been primarily due to word-of-mouth referrals. We believe our goal of delivering a wonderful experience to the patient, office staff and community as a whole, sets us apart.