Clinical Dental Assistant

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Assess dental condition and needs of patient;
• Uses patient screening procedures;
• Provides chair-side assistance to dentist and/or dental hygienist in the performance of dental procedures, to include operative, preventive, periodontal, endodontic, prosthetic, and oral surgical procedures;
• Prepares, sterilizes, organizes and sets up dental instruments and equipment;
• Ensures that all dental instruments are cleaned, dated, and processed according to established clinic guidelines and standards;
• Maintains dental equipment, such as compressors, evacuator systems, radiographic developing equipment, sterilizers, and light-curing units, in accordance with manufacturers guidelines.