John Smith
123 Baker Drive à New York à 999-999-9999
john.smith@xyz.com

Objective:	Interested in applying for the position of a Dental Laboratory Assistant's position with a leading hospital/ dental clinic, where I can enhance and put to practice my knowledge in dental field.

Experience:
  
Dr. Timothy Swann's Dental Clinic	New York
Dental Laboratory Technician	3/3/2009 to Present
à	Tested appliances for conformance to specifications and accuracy of occlusion, using articulators and micrometers.
à	Fabricated, altered and repaired dental devices such as dentures, crowns, bridges, inlays and appliances for straightening teeth._
à	Melted metals and mixed plaster, porcelain and acrylic pastes and poured materials into molds and over frameworks in order to form dental prostheses and apparatus.
à	Built and shaped wax teeth, using small hand instruments and information from observations and dentists' specifications.
à	Applied porcelain paste and waxed over prosthesis frameworks and setups, using brushes and spatulas.
à	Filled chipped and low spots in surfaces of devices, using acrylic resins.
à	Rebuilt and replaced linings, wire sections and missing teeth in order to repair dentures.
à	Trained and supervised other dental technicians and dental laboratory bench workers.
à	Removed excess metal and porcelain and polished surfaces of prostheses and frameworks, using polishing machines.
à	Created a model of patient's mouth by pouring plaster into a dental impression and allowing plaster to set.
à	Read prescriptions and specifications and examined models and impressions, in order to determine the design of dental products to be constructed.
à	Prepared metal surfaces for bonding with porcelain to create artificial teeth, using small hand tools.
à	Placed tooth models on apparatus that mimicked bite and movement of patient's jaw to evaluate functionality of model.
à	Molded wax over denture set-ups in order to form the full contours of artificial gums.
à	Loaded newly constructed teeth into porcelain furnaces in order to bake the porcelain onto the metal framework.
à	Prepared wax bite-blocks and impression trays for use.
à	Shaped and soldered wire and metal frames and bands for dental products, using soldering irons and hand tools.

Riverside Dental Clinic	New York
Dental Laboratory Technician	3/3/2008 to 3/3/2009
à	Tested appliances for conformance to specifications and accuracy of occlusion, using articulators and micrometers.
à	Fabricated, altered and repaired dental devices such as dentures, crowns, bridges, inlays and appliances for straightening teeth._
à	Melted metals and mixed plaster, porcelain and acrylic pastes and poured materials into molds and over frameworks in order to form dental prostheses and apparatus.
à	Applied porcelain paste and waxed over prosthesis frameworks and setups, using brushes and spatulas.
à	Removed excess metal and porcelain and polished surfaces of prostheses and frameworks, using polishing machines.
à	Created a model of patient's mouth by pouring plaster into a dental impression and allowing plaster to set.
à	Prepared metal surfaces for bonding with porcelain to create artificial teeth, using small hand tools.
à	Placed tooth models on apparatus that mimicked bite and movement of patient's jaw to evaluate functionality of model.
à	Molded wax over denture set-ups in order to form the full contours of artificial gums.
à	Loaded newly constructed teeth into porcelain furnaces in order to bake the porcelain onto the metal framework.
à	Prepared wax bite-blocks and impression trays for use.

Education:
  
Sunnydale High School	New York
High School Diploma	2005

Hughes Dental College	New York
Dental Technician Diploma	2008

References:	Available upon request