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 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