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I am senior airman Julia an Ode

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Hernandez . I work at the 48th dental

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squadron as a dental laboratory

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technician . Our main responsibility as

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dental lab techs is to create different

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types of dental prosthesis . So this

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can range anywhere from something as

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Essex retainers that you get when you

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get your braces out to very complex

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cases . If a patient might need

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dentures or an implant , we make a wide

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range of appliances here .

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So in regards to the digital age and

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modernization , our dentists are

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currently taking scans which get sent

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back to us and back here , we're using

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a variety of machines to expedite the

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time on the cases and the workload that

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our patients , our assistants and our

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dentists are dealing with and that's

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how we contribute over here . If the ,

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if the machines go down one day and

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someone needs to go out on a deployment

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if someone has a dental emergency and

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they need a crown ASAP , we can still

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do it all by hand .

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It's a fighter wing , it's high tempo

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and medical and dental is all about

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readiness . So it's really about

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getting our people ready to deploy .

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And so if we have , hey , the mission

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calls for so 300 people deploying , we

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gotta get them out . Now , that's when

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the temple will start to really beat up

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and making sure that they're created

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correctly . Because the dental

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appliances that we make , if we don't

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do them correctly , it could harm the

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patient and we don't want to bring any

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harm to them . So making sure that we

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do it right . Even under pressure is

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our number one priority .