Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
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Darrin Owens

Darrin Owens

Summary

Laboratory professional knowledge of dental appliances and production procedures. Attention to detail in testing devices to fit. Clear communicator handling high workloads and meeting tight timetables.

Overview

17
years of professional experience

Work History

Childs Dental Lab

Dental Lab Technician
04.2011 - 03.2024

Job overview

  • Read doctors prescriptions on patients case.
  • Pour up impressions with stone or die stone.
  • Trim & evaluate cast identifiably land marks. Choose proper shade needed from Rx.
  • Construct custom trays or bite blocks. for jaw relations. Sometimes face bow. Plaster to articulator
  • Carve artificial teeth to fit within occlusion. apply separators.
  • Prepare wax bite-blocks .
  • Process dentures, or partial with frame work. by trial packing or by hydrocolliod . Acrylic stayplate by salt & pepper technique. with pressure pot.
  • Fit appliance to duplicate cast. Finish with course stone, burrs, pumice rag wheel. High shine polish.
  • Reline dentures, partials & stayplates. Repairs.
  • Vacuum form hard soft night guards. bleach trays etc.
  • Block out undercuts for over denture posts, Hadar bars, ball clasp & wire clasps at height of contour.

Dental Design Studios

Dental Lab Technician
09.2007 - 01.2011

Job overview

Plaster bench Supervisor.

  • Plaster bench Supervisor.
  • Pour impressions, trim casts, make duplicates of master with hydrocolloid.
  • Plaster cast with bite to articulator. Plaster reline jig.
  • Process with Ivacor Ivacap continuous pressure system.

Education

Shasta College
Redding, CA

Shasta High School
Redding, CA

from National Art Honor Society
06.1984

Skills

Knowledge of materials from plaster ,stones ,die stones wax-hard, soft, carving wax etc Acrylics monomers & polymers Experience using machines from trimming casts to vacuum former, shell blaster, hydrocolloid Boil out processing acrylics Trial pack, Constant pressure packing pressure pot processing chemical cure Setting teeth into occlusion to finish

Timeline

Dental Lab Technician

Childs Dental Lab
04.2011 - 03.2024

Dental Lab Technician

Dental Design Studios
09.2007 - 01.2011

Shasta College

Shasta High School

from National Art Honor Society
Darrin Owens