Dental Assistant

About the role

This position involves providing clinical support to dentists and licensed dental therapists, performing a range of patient care procedures, and maintaining office inventory.

Responsibilities

• Remove sutures
• Apply topical fluorides and sealants
• Place and remove dental dams and matrix bands
• Fabricate and place interim restorations with temporary cement
• Remove temporary cement and interim restorations with hand instruments
• Observe patient during nitrous oxide analgesia as instructed by the dentist or licensed dental therapist
• Remove excess cement from inlays, crowns, bridges, and orthodontic appliances with hand instruments
• Remove periodontal dressings with hand instruments
• Perform coronal polishing procedures
• Prepare a patient for nitrous oxide analgesia administration upon the direct instruction and presence of a dentist or licensed dental therapist
• Place dental material into a patient's mouth in response to a licensed dentist including dental sealant, temporary restorations and silver diamine fluoride
• Cleanse the supragingival surface of the tooth in preparation for the placement of bands, crowns, and restorations, dental dam application, acid etch procedures, and removal of dressings and packs
• Take final digital impressions for any activating orthodontic appliance, fixed, or removable prosthesis
• Collect and record information pertaining to extraoral conditions
• Collect and record information pertaining to existing intraoral conditions
• Train or instruct patients in oral hygiene techniques, preventive procedures, dietary counseling for caries and plaque control, and provide pre- and post-operative instructions relative to specific office treatment
• Ensure the dental office has the inventory needed and communicates the needs to the designated supply purchaser