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

He had taken classes in prison and become a dental technician.

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

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

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

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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.

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