Dental Laboratory Technician

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Incumbent functions in the Dental Laboratory as a fully qualified and experienced technician. His/her advice is sought on a regular and recurring basis by the staff dentists. To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 06/26/2026. Time-In-Grade Requirement: Applicants who are current Federal employees and have held a GS grade any time in the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement. For a GS-08 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-07. The grade may have been in any occupation, but must have been held in the Federal service. An SF-50 that shows your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your application materials. If the most recent SF-50 has an effective date within the past year, it may not clearly demonstrate you possess one-year time-in-grade, as required by the announcement. In this instance, you must provide an additional SF-50 that clearly demonstrates one-year time-in-grade. This position has an Individual Occupational Requirement: Specialized Experience Examples of qualifying specialized experience include: Use of dental laboratory material such as impression materials, plasters, stones, hydrocolloids, waxes, metals, acrylics, porcelain, and similar materials. Use of laboratory equipment such as hand tools, dental lathes, engines, and hand pieces, furnaces, casting machines, presses, flasks, and related equipment. Use of precision instruments such as articulators, surveyors, and microanalyzers. Construction of dental prosthetic appliances. or Education and Training: For GS-6 and above: Successful completion of a full 4-year apprenticeship program consisting of at least 2000 hours a year. The successful completion of training courses in dental laboratory work in the Armed Forces or other Federal agencies will be allowed appropriate credit for specialized experience on a month-for-month basis up through GS-5. Licensed professional dentists will be considered qualified for any grade level if they have, in the aggregate, the required experience in dental laboratory procedures. You may qualify based on your experience and/or education as described below: Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade (GS-07) in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Performs total fabrication of both fixed or semi-fixed restorations, full or removable partial dentures, orthodontic appliances and/or dental splints and obturators; Constructs wrought wire buccal arm clasps; Constructs acrylic esthetic replacements for gingival tissue removed during Perio Surgery; Researches materials for use in laboratory procedures involving implants, magnet dentures, permanent soft-liners and light cured materials; Provides on-the-job training and basic dental laboratory instruction; Designs and constructs teaching models of different prosthetic appliances; Waxes, invests, boils out, cures and deflasks acrylic bases for partial and complete dentures; Blocks out master casts, waxes complete dentures for try-in; Shapes wax to contours desired in the final dentures, and to the thickness required to maintain facial contours; Carves and contours wax to duplicate the appearance of natural oral tissues; Removes excess wax, smoothes and polishes surfaces; Reproduces dentures; Removes excess acrylic from dentures, grinds and selects methods to simulate contours of natural tissue; Polishes dentures; Preserves anatomical borders developed by the Dentist; Bends wrought wire clasps and bars to conform to the case design outlined upon the surveyor's cast; Tempers and shapes metal with various types of pliers into various component parts which are assembled, incased in a heat resistant investment and fused together in position with gold solder; Finishes, polishes, heats, treats and fits metal onto the master case; Submits articulated casts for partial denture framework fabrication in the Central Dental Laboratory, Dallas, Texas, and upon receipt of the cast framework, adds saddle areas with the teeth and processes partial denture as previously outlined; Fabricates crown, inlays and fixed partial dentures from gold alloys, porcelain or acrylic materials, alone or in combination, according to case requirements; Articulates casts, adapts wax to die and carves patterns to proper anatomical contour and occlusion; Provides cutout space for veneer on facial surface where required, selects and adapts porcelain facings; Casts gold attachments and pieces and pontics; aligns and solder bridges; processes acrylic crowns and veneers; grinds and polish castings; avoiding loss of margin adaptation; Constructs fixed components of implants in gold, and/or porcelain; Constructs and fabricates bite raisers, cleft palate obturators, fracture splin

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