dental technician

noun

1. a skilled worker who makes dentures, bridges, etc., as specified by dentists for their patients.

Word History and Origins

Origin of dental technician¹

First recorded in 1960–65

Example Sentences

Carter said the man came home only on Pearl’s paydays, usually drunk, to take the money his wife earned as a dental technician.

From Seattle Times

Despite her job with a transportation company and her husband’s as a dental technician, they could not make ends meet.

From Washington Times

Before he forayed into creating board games, Mr Teuber worked as a dental technician.

From BBC

He was working as a dental technician in the 1980s outside the industrial city of Darmstadt when he took up designing board games in his basement, he told The New Yorker magazine in 2014.

From Seattle Times

But Wagner had signed a noncompete agreement with Henry Schein, still in effect at that point, barring him from dental technician work at any other company in the state.

From Washington Post