3221 Denturists
Category: Health occupations
Major Group 32 : Technical occupations in health
Denturists examine patients and design, construct and repair removable dentures. Most denturists work in private practice.
Example Titles
dental mechanic
denturist
denturologist
Main duties
Denturists perform some or all of the following duties:
- Measure patients’ jaws to determine size and shape of dentures required
- Make impressions of patients’ teeth, gums and jaws
- Design and construct dentures or direct other workers to construct dentures
- Insert, fit and modify new dentures
- Repair dentures
- Reline, rebase and adjust dentures
- Fabricate mouth protectors, anti-snoring prostheses and removable prostheses on implants
- May order radiographs
- May prepare partial dentures
- May perform denture whitening and cleaning.
Employment requirements
- Completion of a two- or three-year college program in denturism/denturology is required.
- An internship in a registered denture clinic may be required.
- Licensing by a provincial or territorial regulatory body is required.
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