National Occupational Classification (NOC) 2021 Version 1.0
- 3 - Health occupations
- 32 - Technical occupations in health
- 321 - Technical occupations in health (except practitioners of natural healing)
- 3211 - Technical occupations in dental health care
32110 - Denturists
Denturists examine patients and design, construct and repair removable dentures. Most denturists work in private practice. Apprentices are also included in this unit group.
Illustrative example(s)
- dental mechanic
- denturist
- denturologist
Exclusion(s)
- Dental assistants and dental laboratory assistants (See 33100 Dental assistants and dental laboratory assistants)
- Dental hygienists and dental therapists (See 32111 Dental hygienists and dental therapists)
- Dental technologists and technicians (See 32112 Dental technologists and technicians)
- Dentists (See 31110 Dentists)
Main duties
This group performs 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.
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