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 including user maintenance and first line repair of dental equipment and disinfection/sterilization procedures;
• Providing laboratory procedures including fabrication of casts, custom trays, mouthguards and minor repairs to acrylic appliances;
• Providing preventive dentistry measures including 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 l...