Dental Laboratory Technicians

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Duties and Responsibilities:

Dental Laboratory technicians specialize in different areas of dental or orthodontics work. Their jobs usually include making and repairing dentures, crowns, and braces. They work in dental schools, commercials dental laboratories, hospitals, dental clinics, and fro manufacturers of dental prostheses dentals laboratory technicians

•      Repair denture linings.

•      Choose and mount replacement teeth.

•      Construct denture frames.

•      Identify needed prostheses repairs.

•      Make and fix braces

Average salary: $22,000-$33,000

Educational requirements:

Dental laboratory technicians must have a high school diploma or GED certificate before starting dental laboratory training. Dental laboratory technicians must attend a community college, vocational school, or dental school to learn their skills. Programs are usually two years in length

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Clinical technologist

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Clinical technologists perform more complex laboratory test and procedures than technicians. They also supervise technicians, conform there test, and manage laboratory quality control programs.

Most clinical laboratory specialist work in hospital, but they are also employed by private practices, medical groups, research laboratories, pharmaceutical companies and universities.

Average salary: $20,000-$28,000(Clinical laboratory technicians)

$25,000-$40,000

Educational requirements:

Students should take most challenging high school courses in, science, math, and English.

An associate’s degree in the field or completion of a specialist in-house training programs is required to become a clinical laboratory technician.

A bachelor’s degree in the field is normally required to become a clinical technologist; however some employers accept an associate’s degree and extensive clinical experience as a substitute. Many technologists pursue additional graduate educational or specialist training to advance their careers in clinical chemistry, blood banking, and microbiology.  

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Clinical Laboratory Specialist

Duties and responsibilities:

Clinical Laboratory Specialist include both Clinical

Laboratory Technicians and Clinical Technologist.

These professions are also refereed to as Medical

Laboratory Technicians or Medical Technologist.

Both technicians and technologist perform laboratory

work to identify work to identify, diagnose and treat

disease.                                          

Clinical laboratory technicians use microscopes,

laboratory equipment, chemicals and computers

to perform laboratory procedures. They also

collect blood specimens and prepare culture

media. They conduct test and prepare reports for

clinical technologists and physicians.

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