Dental Assistant

Responsibilities

• Prepare the operatories for delivery of dental treatment.
• Assist the dentist with all dental procedures (this includes but is not limited to taking alginate impressions, suctioning patients during procedures, handing instruments and supplies to the dentist, constructing, and cementing temporary crowns, packing gingival retraction cord, etc.).
• Take dental and medical history and perform accurate dental charting.
• Take and develop dental radiographs of diagnostic quality.
• Pour and trim clinically acceptable models.
• Disinfect and sterilize all instruments, equipment, and surfaces between patients.
• Open and maintain patient files in good order.
• Take and triage patient telephone calls.
• Perform preventive maintenance procedures on equipment and instrumentation.
• Maintain the dental supplies inventory.
• Maintain a clean, orderly, and aseptic clinical environment.
• Maintain log of ordered dental prosthetics.
• Participate in quality management activities.
• Occasionally, the supervisor may assign other appropriate duties and responsibilities.
• Provide patients with instruction for oral care following dental treatments.

Qualifications

• A High School Diploma or equivalent.
• Six months of Dental Assisting experience.
• X-ray certification, required.
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office programs to produce correspondence, documents, presentations, records, and spreadsheets.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Expert knowledge of medical office operations, preferred.
• Familiarity with role of FQHCs in the community, preferred.