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Dental AssistantUS Department of Veterans Affairs • Billings, MT, United States
Dental Assistant

Dental Assistant

US Department of Veterans Affairs • Billings, MT, United States
2 days ago
Salary
$37.00 hourly
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

Job Title

Allied Health Professional

Duties

Help Total Rewards of an Allied Health Professional Duties and skills needed to be successful in this position include, but are not limited to:

  1. Customer Service:
    • Shows courtesy, respect, and a positive attitude for patients, co-workers and the public.
    • Provides assistance to customers with questions or concerns, provides service recovery.
  2. Chairside Assisting:
    • Sets up operatory and/or surgery suite for planned dental procedure and cleans dental unit for timely turnover.
    • Passes instruments safely, accurately, and efficiently.
    • Keeps operative field clear of debris and retracts oral tissues effectively and comfortably.
    • Prepares dental medicaments and impression materials per manufacturer's instructions.
    • Accomplishes all intra-operative procedures within standard infection control protocols.
    • Assists in routine general dental procedures.
    • Assists in specialized dental procedures, such as oral maxillofacial surgery, endodontics, and surgical periodontics.
  3. Dental Imaging:
    • Images are characterized by diagnostic quality, accurately oriented and exposed.
    • Dental imaging safety techniques are utilized, and retakes are minimized.
    • Imaging requests are accomplished within the desired time frame.
  4. Infection Control and Equipment Sterilization:
    • Demonstrates proper infection control procedures in setting up and cleaning up operatories.
    • Instruments are properly prepared for sterilization by SPD standards.
    • Instruments are prepared in a manner that does not delay clinical care.
    • Demonstrates proper infection control procedures in exposing images.
  5. Clerical Functions:
    • Assists patients in scheduling appointments.
    • Assists in filling gaps in the doctor's schedule due to late cancellations and failed appointments.
  6. Information Management:
    • Maintains patient confidentiality per HIPAA with written and verbal information.
  7. Patient Safety:
    • Modifies care as necessitated by patient's age and abilities (patient transfer and position)
    • Provides accurate and understandable instructions to patients
    • Participates in patient identification and time out per JCAHO requirements.
    • Monitors patient condition during treatment, being alert for signs of physical distress.
    • Obtain and records patient vital signs: BP, pulse, and pulse oximeter at the beginning of the dental appointment.
  8. Dental Laboratory Functions:
    • Pours impressions and prepares study models.
    • Makes final denture impression trays and prepares bite rims.
  9. Direct Patient Care:
    • Remove sutures and removal of periodontal surgical dressing.
    • Impressions for diagnostic casts and preliminary impressions for prosthetic fabrication.
    • Remove temporary crown/bridge and clean tooth preparation of debris.
    • Recement and fabricate temporary crowns.
    • Coronal polishing of teeth.
    • Place rubber dams and matrix bands.
    • Provides post-operative and other appropriate patient education
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