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Join Affordable Dentures & Implants and Help Create Healthy, Confident Smiles!
Affordable Dentures & Implants is seeking a skilled, patient-focused Licensed Denturist to support our clinical team in delivering exceptional patient care. This role is responsible for designing, constructing, fitting, and repairing removable oral prosthetics — including full dentures and partial dentures — for patients with missing teeth. The ideal candidate combines precise technical craftsmanship with a warm chairside manner and takes pride in owning the case from first impression through final delivery.
Why Join Our Team?
- Practice to the top of your Denturist license in a specialized setting
- Own the full case — impressions, fabrication, fit, and delivery — with no hand-offs
- Work in a practice focused exclusively on dentures and dental implants
- Ongoing training, continuing education, and professional development opportunities
- Collaborative, fast-paced, team-oriented clinical environment
- Make a meaningful impact by restoring function, comfort, and confidence for every patient
What You'll Do
As a Licensed Denturist, you'll play a central clinical role — evaluating patients, capturing accurate impressions, fabricating and fitting removable prosthetics, and delivering a finished result that fits comfortably, functions properly, and looks natural.
- Take impressions used to construct, reline, and repair full and partial dentures
- Perform denture adjustments, including bite registrations and hard and soft relines
- Conduct oral examinations to assess tissue health, fit, and prosthetic needs
- Select tooth shade, mold, and bite to achieve natural aesthetic results
- Fabricate, fit, and finish removable oral prosthetics
- Insert completed dentures and partials, making adjustments for fit, comfort, function, and appearance
- Deliver full dentures and partial dentures chairside
- Educate patients on denture wear, care, adaptation, and follow-up expectations
- Maintain accurate clinical documentation and lab records
- Support dentists and clinical staff to keep daily patient flow on schedule
- Perform additional duties to support daily clinical operations
Qualifications
Required:
- Active Denturist license
- High School Diploma or GED
- Excellent manual dexterity for precise construction and fitting of dental appliances
- Strong communication skills for patient interaction and education
- Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities
- Ability to work in a fast-paced clinical environment
Preferred:
- Previous chairside denture or removable prosthodontics experience
- Experience with hard and soft relines, repairs, and immediate dentures
- Dental laboratory or denture fabrication background
- Knowledge of dental instruments, materials, and medical terminology
- Familiarity with digital denture workflows and intraoral scanning
We're Looking For Someone Who Is:
- Friendly, professional, and compassionate
- Detail-oriented and highly organized
- Creative in the design and fabrication of prosthetics for aesthetic and functional outcomes
- Comfortable managing multiple priorities
- Passionate about delivering exceptional patient experiences
- Dependable, motivated, and eager to grow within a successful dental practice
Physical Requirements
- Ability to stand, walk, bend, reach, and sit for extended periods throughout the workday
- Fine motor control and sustained hand dexterity for detailed lab and chairside work
- Visual acuity for close detail work, shade matching, and fit assessment
- Ability to lift and move up to 50 pounds occasionally
- Ability to work safely in a clinical environment while following OSHA and infection control protocols
If you're someone who enjoys providing exceptional patient care and wants to grow your career in a specialized practice, we'd love to hear from you.
Apply today and become part of a team dedicated to transforming lives—one smile at a time.
Keywords: Denturist, Licensed Denturist, Denture Technician, Removable Prosthetics, Removable Prosthodontics, Full Dentures, Partial Dentures, Immediate Dentures, Denture Impressions, Bite Registration, Hard Reline, Soft Reline, Denture Repair, Denture Fabrication, Chairside Denture Care, Tooth Shade Selection, Dental Laboratory, Dental Lab Technician, Oral Examination, Patient Education, Dental Office, Patient Care, Clinical Support.
Benefits
We care about our employees and understand the hard work that goes into providing the best-in-class patient care. You will be provided the training needed to provide you with the support you need to do your job well. Additional benefits include, group medical and dental insurance, vision insurance, life insurance, flexible spending (health and dependent care), 401(k), 9 paid holidays off, 10 days of vacation, and 5 additional PTO days. We also offer ancillary benefits to include hospital indemnity, accident, and critical illness insurance options.
About Affordable Care
Founded in 1975, today Affordable Care, LLC is America’s largest dental support organization (DSO) focused on tooth replacement services, serving more than 360 dental practices across the United States. Supported practices primarily concentrate on extractions, dentures, implants, and fixed arches, with some practices housing an on-site laboratory to enable same-day dental services. Affordable Care is the DSO for several top dental brands including, but not limited to, Affordable Dentures & Implants, DDS Dentures Implant Solutions, and Advanced Dental Implant Centers. From the Affordable Care Support Center, located in North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park, along with field-based teams, Affordable Care provides business expertise and support services to dental practices, taking care of non-clinical duties so dentists can focus on treating patients (visit affordablecare.com).