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Position Summary:
Dental Technicians assist and support Dental Officers in delivering dental services to Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) members and, occasionally, their families and dependants.
Key Responsibilities:
- Providing clinical assistance;
- Providing clinical support procedures to include user maintenance and first line repair of dental equipment and disinfection/sterilization procedures;
- Providing laboratory procedures to include fabrication of casts, custom trays, mouthguards and minor repairs to acrylic appliances;
- Providing preventive dentistry measures to include 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 liners;
- Placing temporary restorations;
- Temporarily cementing crowns and bridges;
- Applying topical anesthetic;
- Controlling bleeding;
- Exposing and developing radiographs;
- Providing operational dental support (MOSID 00335 only);
- Responding to patient medical emergencies;
- Applying and removing matrices and wedges;
- Performing pulp vitality testing;
- Applying acid etch and cavity bonding;
Required Education & Experience:
If you already have a Level II Dental Assisting Diploma from an accredited College or a National Dental Assisting Examining Board Certificate, including a registration/license with the provincial regulatory body where applicable (provincial regulatory organizations) and at least 900 hours of clinical experience within the last two years, the CAF may place you directly into any of the 24 military dental clinics following basic training. Basic training is required before being assigned to a military dental clinic.