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Dental Assistant

Dental Assistant

Affordable Dentures & Implants • Mesquite, TX, United States
30+ days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

Dental Assistant

We are looking for a Dental Assistant to join our team! Affordable Dentures & Implants is an opportunity to do what you love and get paid to do it! You will enjoy a fulfilling career like no other and will play a vital role in changing the lives of our patients. Together with our experienced dentists and lab professionals, you can be part of delivering life-changing tooth replacement care to hundreds of thousands of patients every year.

Job Purpose

The Dental Assistant will assist affiliated dentists and lab professionals in the delivery of life-changing tooth replacement care to patients. Provides chair-side assistance for impressions, dentures, dental implants and oral surgery (applicability dependent on State law and scope of practice regulations). Provides best-in-class customer service to our patients.

Essential Functions

  • Prepare the office to receive patients prior to opening daily
  • Provide responsive, high-quality service to patients
  • Provide patient education regarding treatment options, denture styles, packages, aftercare instructions, and pricing
  • Provide patient information regarding office policies
  • Consistently record information on the treatment router and patient history forms as instructed by the treating dentist
  • Consistently select appropriate tray sizes for patients' impression materials, and assist dentist with patient impressions, upon direction from the treating dentist
  • Upon direction from the treating dentist, demonstrate ability to prepare wax bites
  • Upon direction and supervision of the treating dentist, and within legal guidelines of expanded duties, assist dentist with adjustments on dentures and denture insertions
  • Tally time sheets in an accurate and timely manner and give to FDA for dentist approval and signature
  • Assist treating dentist with surgery
  • Take and develop x-rays as needed (has certification, where certification is required)
  • Consistently sterilize instruments with minimal direction, including impression trays and hand piece burs and wipes down equipment after each patient
  • Escort each patient to the check out area, with appropriate paperwork
  • Maintain clean work area at all times; participate in daily cleaning duties, including vacuuming and emptying of waste receptacles, cleaning operatories and instruments
  • Inventory and re-order supplies as instructed
  • Perform miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned
  • Minimal travel may be required for training and/or continuing education purposes
  • Other duties as assigned

Educational Requirements

Must possess an active DA and X-ray certification HS Diploma

General Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

  • At least one year of hands-on experience assisting with dentures and/or implants
  • Experience in taking impressions for dentures preferred
  • Moderate physical activity
  • Ability to sit, stand, bend and stoop for periods of time
  • Ability to exert up to 50 pounds of force occasionally
  • Work is performed in an interior dental/clinical environment
  • Work environment involves some exposure to hazards or physical risks, which requires following basic safety precautions
  • Experience in oral surgery and taking prosthetics.
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