Dental Assistant

A professional dental team looking for an experienced, motivated, and efficient dental assistant for our busy practice. We pride ourselves on quality service and care, so our ideal candidate must be friendly, responsible, punctual, ethical and polite, as well as good communication skills, organized, and willing to learn.

**** ONLY APPLICANTS WITH DENTAL EXPERIENCE WILL BE CONSIDERED****

Responsibilities:

• Sterilizing dental instruments and equipment for each patient

• Organizing and laying out instruments for dentist's use

• Handing instruments and other materials to dentist during procedures

• Taking and developing x-rays into the system

• Taking impressions of patients' teeth for casts

• Using suction and swabs to keep patients' mouths clear and dry during procedures

• Proficiently make temporary crowns and bridges

• Obtaining patients' dental records

• Questioning patients about their medical history and recording information for dentist's reference

• Advising patients on dental care

• Making patients feel comfortable before, during and after dental treatment

· Perform lab duties such as pouring models, fabricating whitening trays, night guards and retainers.

· Set up rooms for all operative procedures

· Turn over room in efficient manner

· Seat patients and obtain consents.

· Able to send cases to dental labs, properly enter into software with accurate return date giving enough time for proper turn around.

Qualifications:

• Excellent customer service skills

• Effective communicating skills

• Team player

• Enthusiastic attitude

• Be caring and friendly

• Eager to learn

• Can adapt quickly

• Ability to be proactive

• Ability to take initiative

• Great computer and organizational skills

• Ability to multi task

• Must be able to talk and listen to patients

• Must be able to work at a fast pace

• Experience in a dental office required

• Able to make Temporary crowns

• Ability to present and close treatment plans (when needed)

• Experience with Dentrix

Job type: Full time

Language: Spanish (preferred)/Russian (preferred)

Salary: Starting rate w/ experience $20.00