Durham Technical Institute - Technician / Widget Yearbook (Durham, NC)

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 DENTAL A Dental Laboratory Technician is a skilled mechanical technician who works in cooperation with professional practicing dentists. A dental technician’s work is involved with making dental restorations or den- tures. These dentures, either partial or entire upper or lower plates, are used as replacement teeth that have been removed from the patient’s mouth or to replace teeth that are missing from a patient’s mouth. Sf m I Tau Eta Sigma — a dental laboratory technology fraternity promoting the highest possible degree of in- dividual excellence in the art and science of dental technology and a greater degree of public recognition for the contribution rendered the dental community by dental technology. Membership consists of charter, stu- dents, faculty, alumni, and honorary members of the dental laboratory technology vocation. jwmm i® mm - TV A