Specialist Prosthodontics

Join our team if you are a prosthodontist who can assess and examine patients to make diagnoses of oral illnesses, diseases, and deformities. Recommend treatment.

Prosthodontist Responsibilities:

• Examine patients with X-rays and other equipment to make diagnoses
• Create charts of patient’s mouths
• Take measurements for prostheses like dentures, crowns, and bridges
• Make wax models of prostheses, and supervise dental technicians and laboratory bench workers in doing so
• Send models to lab companies that manufacture prostheses
• Place prostheses in patients’ mouths, making adjustments to make them fit properly
• Repair, rebase, and reline dentures
• Administer anesthesia, and prescribe medications like antibiotics
• Conduct surgery to repair structures of the mouth to enable those who have suffered injuries or diseases to regain functions
• Employ bonding methods to alter the shape of teeth and close gaps between them, to improve function or appearance
• Treat ailments that cause pain in the face and jaw