A Dictionary of Occupational Terms Based on the Classification of Occupations used in the Census of Population, 1921.

ORDER XX.—WORKERS IN MIXED OR UNDEFINED MATERIALS (not elsewhere enumerated)

Sub-order 4.—Other Workers

684.—Dental Mechanics

adapter (artificial teeth): a dental . mechanic q.v. making alterations in new plates returned for adjustment; may also utilise old materials in building new dental work; obsolescent.
dental mechanic, dentist's mechanic, mechanical dentist: sets artificial teeth in rubber to correspond with a cast moulded in plaster from wax impression of patient's mouth; encases the set in plaster in a metal case, and vulcanises it by steam pressure; polishes vulcanised set on wheel with emery paste; makes sets of gold or dental alloy by brazing, with blowpipe, the porcelain teeth on to the metal plate after setting up in plaster cast, which keeps them in position during brazing process.

From: A Dictionary of Occupational Terms Based on the Classification of Occupations used in the Census of Population, 1921,
Ministry of Labour, 1927. Digitised by Peter Christian, August, 2016. This text is in the Public Domain.