Dental Assistant Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Graduation from an approved Dental Laboratory program or and one year experience OR high school diploma (or equivalency) AND a minimum of one year related secretarial experience in the health care field or high school diploma (or equivalency).

Responsibilities

• Assists the provider with routine dental checkups, screening patients, reviewing a patient's oral history and teaching appropriate brushing and flossing techniques
• Assists and/or performs basic dental care tasks and preventative oral hygiene
• Assists as necessary with extractions, including emergency extractions and/or urgent dental care
• Responsible for taking impressions and/or molds of teeth
• Assists the Provider with taking impressions
• Assists Provider with anything they need for adjustments to crowns, bridges or dentures
• Ensuring that sterile conditions are maintained
• Providing dental health education about tooth care and diet
• Prepare treatment rooms for patients by following prescribed procedures and protocols
• Prepare patient by welcoming, comforting, seating and draping the patient
• Provide information to patients by answering questions and request
• Provide 4 handed dentistry
• Properly handle, disinfect and sterile treatment rooms and instruments, according to OSHA standards
• Protect patients and employees by adhering to infection control policies and protocols
• Provide diagnostic information by taking X-rays, taking diagnostic models (pouring and trimming)
• Provide postoperative instructions and oral hygiene
• Maintain patient confidence and protects operations by keeping information confidential
• Maintain supply inventory of necessary materials to function on daily basis (i.e. Don't run out of gloves, anesthesia...)
• Maintain dental equipment according to manufactures instructions (cleaning autoclaves, changing filters, lubricating handpieces)
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending continued education courses annually
• Contribute to the team effort of accomplishing related tasks
• Other duties as assigned