Elements and Performance Criteria
- Elements define the essential outcomes
- Prepare case
- Apply standard precautions when receiving, handling and working on dentures and appliances
- Decontaminate dentures and appliances according to infection control guidelines
- Read and correctly interpret work order
- Examine fractured components for defects
- Realign, position and secure fractured components in their correct relationship
- Prepare model
- Repair denture or appliance
- Prepare and shape denture surfaces to allow for bonding with the new material
- Relocate components
- Select and prepare materials and processing equipment
- Apply repair materials using the correct technique to the required shape and thickness
- Process materials according to manufacturers’ instructions
- Modify denture or appliance where required
- Decontaminate impressions according to infection control guidelines
- Pour the model material into the impression in accordance with accepted techniques
- Articulate case and transfer records, or construct articulation key as required
- Prepare denture or appliance surfaces appropriately for the modification to be made
- Reline, re-base or modify the denture in accordance with work order
- Trim, shape and finish denture or appliance
- Trim denture or appliance to relevant anatomical outline or required extension of the base
- Examine the tissue fitting surface and remove any processing anomalies and sharp surfaces
- Refine and polish surfaces and produce required contours
- Evaluate the finished prosthesis
- Decontaminate the appliance according to infection control guidelines
- Place the appliance in a sealed container for dispatch