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Dental Assistant

Veterans Engineering is looking for a compassionate and detail-oriented Dental Assistant to become part of our dedicated healthcare team. In this role, you will provide essential support to dentists in delivering high-quality dental care to patients, ensuring a positive and comfortable experience. You will assist with various procedures, prepare treatment rooms, sterilize instruments, and help maintain patient records. Our ideal candidate has excellent communication skills, a strong work ethic, and the ability to work well in a fast-paced environment. As an organization committed to supporting veterans and their families, we value diversity and welcome applicants from all backgrounds.

Responsibilities

• Assists Dental Officer in dental specialty sections: restorative, oral surgery, endodontics, periodontics, prosthetics, and examinations
• Retrieves patient's records and escorts patients to proper dental specialty section; seats and prepares patient for attending Dental Officer
• Assists Dental Officer by preparing dental instruments, essential materials, drugs, and medications
• Passes instruments, retracts tissues, irrigates oral cavity, and operates aspirator
• Observes patient's responses, and assists patient for dismissal from the Dental Clinic
• Gives instructions for subsequent dental appointments
• Makes necessary entries on dental treatment records (both electronic and paper records)
• Prepares dental treatment room for the next patient
• Assists in the treatment of emergency cases.
• Provides dental health education
• Performs Dental prophylaxes - polishing of coronal portion of teeth, if the assistant is a Registered Dental Assistant (RDA) or Expanded Functions Dental Assistant (EFDA).
• Performs Dental screening examinations
• Prepares patients for periodontal surgery
• Completes dental and periodontal charting
• Prepares, places, and removes packs
• Places temporary fillings (RDA, EFDA)
• Places and removes rubber dams
• Maintains dental equipment
• Cleans, sharpens, and sterilizes instruments
• Performs daily inspection of equipment and makes minor repairs
• Reports defective equipment, or institutes corrective action
• Uses dental hand instruments, mechanical instruments (including ultrasonic), oral hygiene aides and prophylaxis paste to provide necessary oral prophylactic services
• Prepares entries for patient's records
• Selects and applies medication in proper portion and anti-cariogenic agents to surface of teeth. Applies medication prescribed by a Dental Officer to gingiva to promote healing
• Fabricates and repairs dental prostheses and appliances under supervision
• Performs procedures pursuant to fabrication and repair of complete denture prostheses and removable partial prostheses Uses acrylic resins and porcelain as basic materials
• Takes radio graphs of patients using digital intraoral and panoramic dental radiography
• Obtains diagnostic quality periapical, occlusal, lateral jaw, and TMJ radiographs
• Correctly positions patient and sensor
• Determines level of radiation intensity to minimize radiation exposure of patients
• Processes and saves digital radiographs to patient medical records
• Maintains proper infection control procedures in radiographic techniques
• Sterilizes contaminated biological waste of dental clinic
• Places and finishes dental restorations, including bases and liners
• Make primary impressions and pours casts
• Selects tooth shade for composite restorations and dentures
• Maintains accurate sharps and instrument inventories
• Maintains logs for surface disinfectants, autoclave maintenance, chair filters maintenance, and vacuum pump filters
• Maintains sterilization logs