Dental Assistant

Tarzana Treatment Centers, Inc•Los Angeles, CA

24d•$27 - $28•Onsite

About The Position

Tarzana Treatment Centers, Inc. (TTC) is a multi-specialty outpatient facility providing care in a comprehensive, high-quality setting. We are looking for a dedicated, motivated, enthusiastic team player who wants to make a difference in the community, working in collaboration as an integral member of the multi-disciplinary healthcare team. The role of Dental Assistant is pivotal within dental practices. As a professional who supports both patients and dentists, the dental assistant ensures smooth operation of dental procedures. While enhancing patient care and comfort, the dental assistant is responsible for setting up treatment rooms and assisting dentists during procedures. The comprehensive job of the dental assistant is designed to streamline dental operations and improve patients’ outcome.

Requirements

Dental Assistant Certificate
Radiation Safety License issued by the Dental Board of California / certificate of compliance from an approved board course in Radiation safety
Minimum one (1) year of experience in general dentistry.

Responsibilities

Greeting patients upon arrival
Administrative tasks: scheduling and record keeping
Assists a dentist by serving as chair assistant and office clerk
Reviews patient record if available and, using standard practices and procedural instructions as guides, determines what instruments/materials will probably be needed and lays them out
Passes equipment to the dentist upon request
Prepares patient for dentist by seating patient, adjusting chair for convenient angle, draping patient, and, especially in the case of children, calms and reassures the patient so work can proceed expeditiously
Schedules all patients, determining time intervals according to type of work to be done and the probability of the dentist being able to treat more than one patient at a time
Operates a conventional dental radiographic machine to make intra-oral, periapical, bite wing, and occlusal images; a cephalometric radiographic machine to make various extra-oral images of the head such as lateral, anterior-posterior, and poster-anterior images; and a panographic radiographic machine to make extra-oral panographic images of the teeth and jaws, as directed by dentist
Places and positions suction tubes in patient's mouth using standard practices and dentist's instructions
Mixes filling compounds such as composite and amalgam using standard practices or dentist’s preference as guides to consistency
Maintains patient records by indicating type of work done
Takes pre-impressions for dentures of all types as directed for use by technician to duplicate original configuration using standard practice and dentist's instructions as guides.
Proper teaching of oral hygiene
Assisting with dental procedures
Equipment sterilization
Knowledge and following proper hygienic protocol
Assisting during a dental emergency
Dental equipment and supply inventory.