Expanded Duty Dental Assistant (EDDA)
About The Position
A-Team Dental Staffing has partnered with an established, innovative private dental practice in Atlanta, Georgia, to recruit an experienced Expanded Duty Dental Assistant for a full-time, direct-hire opportunity. This established fee-for-service practice has served the Atlanta community for more than 40 years and provides comprehensive general, cosmetic, restorative, implant, endodontic, and clear-aligner dentistry. The practice offers advanced technology, ongoing training, and meaningful opportunities for professional development. The ideal candidate is an experienced, clinically confident assistant who possesses Georgia expanded-duty certifications and can work efficiently alongside multiple providers in a fast-paced environment.
Requirements
- Previous hands-on dental assisting experience required
- Georgia Expanded Duty Dental Assistant certificates strongly preferred
- Candidates should possess certifications for the expanded functions they perform
- Current CPR/BLS certification
- Dental radiography training and certification as required
- Experience assisting with restorative dentistry, oral surgery, implants, extractions, root canals, and cosmetic procedures strongly preferred
- Dentrix experience preferred
- Strong knowledge of dental terminology, instruments, materials, and procedures
- Ability to anticipate the provider’s needs and remain prepared throughout procedures
- Comfortable working with multiple providers in a fast-paced practice
- Excellent organization, communication, and patient-care skills
- Dependable, proactive, detail-oriented, and team-focused
- Motivated to pursue advanced education and additional clinical certifications
Nice To Haves
- Georgia expanded-duty certifications
Responsibilities
- Provide efficient four-handed chairside assistance
- Perform expanded duties permitted by the candidate’s Georgia certifications
- Anticipate the doctors’ needs throughout procedures
- Prepare treatment rooms, instruments, materials, and equipment
- Assist with crowns and bridges, composite fillings, root canals, extractions, implant placement, partial and complete dentures, fixed implant-retained dentures, cosmetic procedures, and Invisalign
- Assist with complex restorative and surgical procedures
- Take diagnostic-quality digital radiographs
- Capture digital impressions using an iTero scanner
- Assist with 3D imaging and implant treatment workflows
- Fabricate provisional restorations when appropriately certified
- Prepare patients for treatment and explain procedures
- Maintain accurate clinical documentation in Dentrix
- Turn over treatment rooms thoroughly and efficiently
- Sterilize instruments and maintain infection-control protocols
- Monitor supplies and restock clinical areas
- Provide postoperative instructions as directed
- Help patients feel comfortable and informed throughout treatment
- Maintain efficient patient flow in a fast-paced, multi-provider practice
- Follow OSHA, HIPAA, and practice safety requirements
- Participate in weekly Wednesday training sessions
Benefits
- Medical benefits through Aflac
- Vision benefits through Aflac
- In-house employee dental plan
- 401(k) with employer matching up to 4%
- Four sick days per year, earned quarterly
- Opportunity for unused sick time to be paid as a year-end bonus
- One personal day
- 40 hours of vacation after one year of service
- 80 hours of vacation after three years of service
- Paid holidays
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
