National Occupational Classification (NOC) 2011

• 3 - Health occupations
• 32 - Technical occupations in health
• 322 - Technical occupations in dental health care

3221 - Denturists

Denturists examine patients and design, construct and repair removable dentures. Most denturists work in private practice.

• Illustrative example(s)

  • dental mechanic
  • denturist
  • denturologist

  All examples

• Exclusion(s)

  • Dental assistants (3411)
  • Dental hygienists and dental therapists (3222)
  • Dental technologists, technicians and laboratory assistants (3223)
  • Dentists (3113)

• Main duties

  Denturists perform some or all of the following duties:

  • Measure patients' jaws to determine size and shape of dentures required
  • Make impressions of patients' teeth, gums and jaws
  • Design and construct dentures or direct other workers to construct dentures
  • Insert, fit and modify new dentures
  • Repair dentures
  • Reline, rebase and adjust dentures
  • Fabricate mouth protectors, anti-snoring prostheses and removable prostheses on implants
  • May order radiographs
  • May prepare partial dentures
  • May perform denture whitening and cleaning.

• Employment requirements

  • Completion of a two- or three-year college program in denturism/denturology is required.
  • An internship in a registered denture clinic may be required.
  • Licensing by a provincial or territorial regulatory body is required.