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dental technician

American  

noun

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


Etymology

Origin of dental technician

First recorded in 1960–65


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

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2025

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

From Washington Times ● May 9, 2023

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 ● Apr. 4, 2023

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 ● Mar. 10, 2023

As a young man, Don Slocum trained as a dental technician.

From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2021

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