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Current state and future of removables, my thoughts.
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<blockquote data-quote="Chalky" data-source="post: 163790" data-attributes="member: 13047"><p>It seems there are many common problems that face the removable aspect of the trade across the globe. I worked in a lab for 12 years under an excellent technician with vast knowledge having been a former maxillofacial techo. Sadly I will most likely be the only person that will have the privilege of learning all he has to teach. He has become most disheartened with the attitude of younger people who basically aren't prepared to work... and now simply will not even consider taking on an apprentice (never did while I was there),or even a less experienced qualified technician now I have left. All he has to offer will retire with him, and I am sure there are many masters of our trade that will fade away taking their knowledge with them. Technicians are a fairly secretive bunch generally, not wanting to give away ALL their secrets, so that they are able to do or offer something the other guy possibly can't. Techniques sometimes take months or even years to streamline and master, and without the next generation there to pick up where the 'old boys' have left off it leaves a big void in the industry. Technology has come leaps and bounds in the last 5-10 years (forgive me as I'm not a fixed technician, so my true knowledge is rather limited in this area),providing much better fit and quality than what was on offer when scanning/milling first hit the trade. I believe that setting and waxing by hand, by a technician in a lab for both partial and full dentures will be a cheaper option than scanning and milling. BUT, if the quality of work simply is not there due to a lack of skilled technicians available to do it, then I think cheaper more accurate methods of denture construction won't be that far away purely due to the void that will need filling by lack of master technicians passing on their trade skills. At my old lab, I can honestly count on one hand the number of dentures that haven't fit in the last 10 years, from what have already seen working somewhere else new dentures not fitting is a normal occurrence. This simply should not happen. I feel a responsibility to help my trade, and pass on some of what I have learned to make the newer less qualified, less experienced technicians better at their (OUR) craft so the quality of work that gets distributed improves. One of the old guys at the hospital where I did my apprenticeship told me many times 'leave now boy... this is a dying trade' 20 years later its starting to look like he may have been right!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chalky, post: 163790, member: 13047"] It seems there are many common problems that face the removable aspect of the trade across the globe. I worked in a lab for 12 years under an excellent technician with vast knowledge having been a former maxillofacial techo. Sadly I will most likely be the only person that will have the privilege of learning all he has to teach. He has become most disheartened with the attitude of younger people who basically aren't prepared to work... and now simply will not even consider taking on an apprentice (never did while I was there),or even a less experienced qualified technician now I have left. All he has to offer will retire with him, and I am sure there are many masters of our trade that will fade away taking their knowledge with them. Technicians are a fairly secretive bunch generally, not wanting to give away ALL their secrets, so that they are able to do or offer something the other guy possibly can't. Techniques sometimes take months or even years to streamline and master, and without the next generation there to pick up where the 'old boys' have left off it leaves a big void in the industry. Technology has come leaps and bounds in the last 5-10 years (forgive me as I'm not a fixed technician, so my true knowledge is rather limited in this area),providing much better fit and quality than what was on offer when scanning/milling first hit the trade. I believe that setting and waxing by hand, by a technician in a lab for both partial and full dentures will be a cheaper option than scanning and milling. BUT, if the quality of work simply is not there due to a lack of skilled technicians available to do it, then I think cheaper more accurate methods of denture construction won't be that far away purely due to the void that will need filling by lack of master technicians passing on their trade skills. At my old lab, I can honestly count on one hand the number of dentures that haven't fit in the last 10 years, from what have already seen working somewhere else new dentures not fitting is a normal occurrence. This simply should not happen. I feel a responsibility to help my trade, and pass on some of what I have learned to make the newer less qualified, less experienced technicians better at their (OUR) craft so the quality of work that gets distributed improves. One of the old guys at the hospital where I did my apprenticeship told me many times 'leave now boy... this is a dying trade' 20 years later its starting to look like he may have been right! [/QUOTE]
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