Dental Lab Technician (Anaplastologist) 

Naval Medical Center San Diego – San Diego, CA

Compass Government Solutions is currently recruiting qualified Dental Laboratory Technicians (Anaplastologist) to provide dental laboratory support services at Naval Medical Center San Diego in San Diego, California. This position supports Hospital Dentistry and maxillofacial prosthetic services in a military medical center environment.

Work Schedule

Services shall be provided Monday through Friday, between the hours of 0700–1500. Shifts will be scheduled for 8-hour periods, not including an uncompensated 30-minute lunch break.

• Duty Hours: None

• On-Call Hours: None

• Call-Back Hours: None

• Overage Hours: None

Job Duties:

• Work closely with professional staff in the fabrication and fitting of ocular restorations, facial prostheses, crowns, and fixed partial dentures

• Independently design, construct, and resolve complex dental laboratory design and fabrication issues

• Fabricate maxillofacial prosthetics including surgical, interim, and definitive obturators, palatal lift prostheses, radiation stents, extraoral prosthetics, magnet implant systems, ocular prostheses, and silicone prostheses

• Read, interpret, and apply requirements prescribed in dental prosthetic prescriptions (DD Form 2322)

• Fabricate dental laboratory work to quality standards evaluated under microscopic magnification

• Maintain laboratory work areas and equipment

• Maintain correction rates within required quality thresholds

• Perform laboratory functions including pouring impressions, trimming and articulating casts, duplicating casts, fabricating trays, orthodontic retainers, mouth guards, surgical guides, and prosthodontic templates

• Fabricate removable prosthodontic appliances including custom trays, occlusion rims, dentures, relines, repairs, orthodontic retainers, TAP appliances, occlusal guards, and implant-supported restorations

• Apply porcelain and colorants to fabricate crowns, fixed partial dentures, implant restorations, and ceramic prostheses

• Modify metal and ceramic frameworks to optimize prosthetic fit, function, and esthetics

• Perform prosthesis finishing procedures including waxing, investing, casting, soldering, contouring, and polishing frameworks

• Utilize CAD/CAM software and hardware to upload digital impressions, scan casts, design restorations, and mill ceramic restorations