Chronology, history, my statistical data, analisys,
achievements and other involvements as

Dental Technician


Dr. Boban Fidanoski, DT, DDS



Chapter One
Period from April 15-th 1995 to July 28-th 2004

I started working as a Dental Technician on 15-th of April 1995 at my uncle`s Dental office and laboratory "Duki Lek"

After I graduated from Medical School of Dental Technology in June 1992 in Skopje, I went directly to the University. I was in the middle of my Dentistry studies at the University when one day my uncle, Dr. Dusan Velkoski fired his dental technician because he wanted to steel few grams of gold from the golden bridge he was fabricating,, and then a day after he went into a time deadline. He desperately needed some technician to finish that famous golden bridge. So, he called me, and asked me to finish that bridge. Wow, I can still feel my fear and sweat while I was working on that three unit golden bridge !! My first bridge - and with gold!! I have finished that bridge , and my Uncle was very satisfied . He proposed to me to start working as his Dental technician .I said Yes....and the history began ....

 

Before I start to tell You about my work and achievements as Dental technician , I would like to draw a line and separate two types of Dental Technicians on this planet:

1. New style "Chain system" Dental Technologists

There are technicians who work in a "Chain system" of making dentures crowns and bridges; it means that several technicians are in the process of making one denture, crown or bridge, every one of them is in charge of only one stage of the process. So , one of them is shaping denture or crown and bridge in wax , other is working on changing wax into alloy or investment and processing, other is trimming and polishing the denture , and the last one is working with the composite or ceramic materials ,giving the final shape of the crowns and bridges....they are all making a chain that ends with finished denture, crown or bridge.

2.Old fashioned "One man show" Dental Technologists

On the other side there are , I would say , an "Old fashioned" Dental technicians who are fabricating dentures, crowns, bridges and other appliances in the principles of " One man doing all the stages of appliance's fabrication, from pouring the model to polishing" , or , in short - "One man show" . I was one of them , all the dentures, crowns and bridges that I made , were from the start till the end made by my self .

Also , there are not many of technicians who work in two main fields of Dental technology - Fixed and Removable prosthetics. It is a high honor and a prestige for every technician if he can fabricate fixed prosthetses as well as removable ones. I was and still am one of this guys.

 
Analysis of my work were made in Yearly basis and it can be observed through four components :
-number of patients

-number of crowns or units in a bridge
-number of complete and partial acrylic dentures
-number of cast partial dentures

Because I started to work on 15-th of April , this date is taken as the start point of the first Year session `95 . All other Year sessions are from the first of January till the 31-th of December. The last year session is from January 01-th to July 01-th 2004.


Year of 1995
Patients :
087
Crowns or units of a bridge :
358
Complete or Partial acrylic Dentures :
021
Cast Partial Dentures :
009

 

Year of 1996
Patients :
077
Crowns or units of a bridge :
337
Complete or Partial acrylic Dentures :
011
Cast Partial Dentures :
009

 

Year of 1997
Patients :
094
Crowns or units of a bridge :
494
Complete or Partial acrylic Dentures :
016
Cast Partial Dentures :
015

 

Year of 1998
Patients :
143
Crowns or units of a bridge :
632
Complete or Partial acrylic Dentures :
030
Cast Partial Dentures :
023

 

 

Year of 1999
Patients :
150
Crowns or units of a bridge :
658
Complete or Partial acrylic Dentures :
017
Cast Partial Dentures :
014

 

Year of 2000
Patients :
083
Crowns or units of a bridge :
298
Complete or Partial acrylic Dentures :
009
Cast Partial Dentures :
007

 

Year of 2001
Patients :
070
Crowns or units of a bridge :
347
Complete or Partial acrylic Dentures :
022
Cast Partial Dentures :
007

Year of 2002
Patients :
088
Crowns or units of a bridge :
386
Complete or Partial acrylic Dentures :
034
Cast Partial Dentures :
010

Year of 2003
Patients :
096
Crowns or units of a bridge :
402
Complete or Partial acrylic Dentures :
056
Cast Partial Dentures :
022

Half of the Year of 2004
Patients :
044
Crowns or units of a bridge :
189
Complete or Partial acrylic Dentures :
020
Cast Partial Dentures :
016

 

Total for Ten Years
1995-2004
Patients :
932
Crowns or units of a bridge :
4101
Complete or Partial acrylic Dentures :
236
Cast Partial Dentures :
132

 

 

Number of crowns or units of a bridge fabricated from April 1995 to June 2004
4.101

 

One of my prides and satisfactions is number of crowns
that I have made as well as their quality.

My Personal records

Because of the nature of policy in "Duki-Lek" , every job in my laboratory must be done in 3 or 4 days . So , a crazy chase with time was natural thing in my Laboratory . I did some internal office records and I would like to share them with You because I`m very proud of them . The Quality of dentures is incontestable .

 

August 1995 - For One month I have fabricated : 113 crowns or units of a bridge, 5 complete dentures & 4 cast partial dentures, all from scrach to finish.

March 1999 - For 3 days I have waxed up 78 full gold units of a bridge.

June 1999 - For one month I have fabricated 122 crowns or units of a bridge, 4 complete dentures & 5 cast patial dentures, all from scrach to finish .

 

Chapter Two
Period from
August 10-th 2004 to September 15-th 2006

On 28-th of July 204 I moved to live in Canada and got employeed at the denture department in Accu Plus Dental Laboratories. I became a part of the Chain system in Dental Technology. I was in charge of one or few stages in fabrication of a dentures or crowns.
 
 

 

Chapter Three
Period from September 25-th 2006 to date.

On September 25-th 2006 I moved back to work in the old fashioned Dental Technology system.

 

At the end of this page I would like to express my graditude to :

Our Mighty God and Saint Petka for giving me strength , will to work and good health in my life .
Dr.Dusan Velkoski - my teacher and mentor .
Dr.Liljana Velkoska - for giving me genotype for Dentistry .
Ljupco Velkoski - for being with me in my thoughts all the time .
Mila Velkoska - for her unlimited support .
Dr.Natali Dimovska Fidanoski- for love and understanding.