What are the responsibilities and job description for the Dental Assistant - No experience necessary, we will train you!! position at Family Health Centers?
Are you interested in a new career as a Dental Assistant? Dentistry continues to be ranked as one of the top 10 professions in the nation! No experience is necessary, we will train you. You can earn a competitive salary, work four days per week, and learn various skills in a dental office environment.
Our family-friendly dental clinic is seeking a compassionate Dental Assistant who will treat our patients with the highest quality of care.
Primary Duties And Responsibilities
Employee must be registered as a Dental Assistant with the state of Washington and hold a current basic life support certification.
Our family-friendly dental clinic is seeking a compassionate Dental Assistant who will treat our patients with the highest quality of care.
Primary Duties And Responsibilities
- Communicates patient health information to dental providers and team members.
- Answers patient phone calls, documents and communicates questions in Electronic Dental Records (EDR) and Electronic Medical Records (EHR) to the provider as necessary
- Relays appropriate information to the patient from provider documents in EDR.
- Coordinates and processes refill requests with the provider.
- Direct Patient Care
- Obtains and records vital signs and updates patient health history.
- Responsible for patient education in Oral Health Instructions (OHI)
- Performs diagnostic testing limited to tooth vitality.
- Administers medications including sedative drugs, and topical anesthetics.
- Administers inhalation of minimal sedation (nitrous oxide) analgesia, including starting and stopping the flow as directed by the supervising dentist.
- Responsible for placing, exposing and processing intraoral Panoramic and Cephalometric radiographs.
- Prepares patient for treatment and gives preoperative and postoperative instructions.
- Responsible for fabricating and delivering temporary crowns, bleaching, fluoride tray cements and removes temporary crowns and bridges.
- Responsible for packing and medicating extraction areas. Places periodontal packs and removes packs or sutures.
- Processes impressions, bit registrations or digital scans of teeth and jaw for diagnostic and opposing models.
- Performs direct restorative treatment by placing acid etch, bonding agents, wedge, matrix and cavity base materials.
- Triages patients and performs oral inspection of patient and charts existing restorations.
- Pre-fits fixed and removable orthodontic appliances, occlusal guards, bleaching trays and fluoride trays.
- Removes fixed orthodontic appliances, orthodontic cements, and the orthodontic bonded resin material
- Possesses a basic level of written and verbal communications skills, computational and computer skills and mathematical knowledge typically acquired through completion of a high school program or GED.
Employee must be registered as a Dental Assistant with the state of Washington and hold a current basic life support certification.
