I am senior airman Julia an Ode
Hernandez . I work at the 48th dental
squadron as a dental laboratory
technician . Our main responsibility as
dental lab techs is to create different
types of dental prosthesis . So this
can range anywhere from something as
Essex retainers that you get when you
get your braces out to very complex
cases . If a patient might need
dentures or an implant , we make a wide
range of appliances here .
So in regards to the digital age and
modernization , our dentists are
currently taking scans which get sent
back to us and back here , we're using
a variety of machines to expedite the
time on the cases and the workload that
our patients , our assistants and our
dentists are dealing with and that's
how we contribute over here . If the ,
if the machines go down one day and
someone needs to go out on a deployment
if someone has a dental emergency and
they need a crown ASAP , we can still
do it all by hand .
It's a fighter wing , it's high tempo
and medical and dental is all about
readiness . So it's really about
getting our people ready to deploy .
And so if we have , hey , the mission
calls for so 300 people deploying , we
gotta get them out . Now , that's when
the temple will start to really beat up
and making sure that they're created
correctly . Because the dental
appliances that we make , if we don't
do them correctly , it could harm the
patient and we don't want to bring any
harm to them . So making sure that we
do it right . Even under pressure is
our number one priority .