Dental Assistant - Expanded Functions

Aspen Dental Management•Bloomington, IN

About The Position

At Aspen Dental, the Expanded Functions Dental Assistant helps create lasting impressions and build trust and loyalty with patients. The role supports daily patient flow and assists doctors during a variety of treatment procedures. Duties include preparing and breaking down operatories, setting up trays, supporting patient charting, taking dental radiographs, and providing patients with post-treatment oral-care instructions and hygiene education. The assistant performs sterilization and infection-control processes, ensures staff training and compliance, and follows maintenance schedules for waterlines, suction lines, autoclaves, and compressors. Expanded-function duties include completing denture soft relines, manufacturing temporary crowns, monitoring laboratory cases, taking impressions and bite registrations, performing quality intraoral scans, and carrying out additional certified functions such as coronal polishing or restorative procedures. The role also includes explaining and teaching the clear aligner process, maintaining emergency supplies, ordering supplies within the practice budget, and performing other office tasks as needed. Aspen Dental describes its workplace as offering training, career development, flexible scheduling, and a supportive, collaborative culture.

Requirements

Current Dental Assistant license, registration, or certification as required by the state.
Radiology (X-ray) certification as required by the state.
Current CPR or BLS certificate.
At least 2 years of experience as a Dental Assistant.
Proficiency in chairside assisting and four-handed dentistry.
Ability to demonstrate and provide instruction on proper sterilization and infection-control techniques.
Maintain annual continuing education requirements specified by the state.
State certification in expanded functions as required by the state.

Responsibilities

Assist with directing the dental assistant office team throughout the day to maintain productive patient flow.
Assist doctors during a variety of treatment procedures.
Break down operatories for doctors and hygienists and set up trays and operatories for procedures.
Complete sterilization processes for equipment and operatories, and ensure staff are trained and compliant.
Follow maintenance schedules for waterlines, suction lines, autoclaves, and compressors.
Support doctors with patient charting.
Train others to perform patient handoffs and monitor patient flow.
Follow OSHA regulations, Aspen safety requirements, and HIPAA guidelines.
Take dental radiographs (X-rays).
Provide patients with oral-care instructions following dental treatment and educate them about oral hygiene.
Complete denture soft relines and manufacture temporary crowns.
Monitor and help manage laboratory cases.
Perform quality intraoral health scans of patients in under five minutes.
Explain and teach the clear aligner process.
Take impressions and bite registrations.
Perform additional expanded functions based on certifications, such as coronal polishing and restorative functions.
Maintain emergency kits and oxygen tanks.
Order and maintain supplies in accordance with the practice budget.
Perform various office tasks as necessary.