Dental Assistant

Job Description

Job Description

Dental Assistant

Location: Danielsville, GA Job Type: Part-time Company: MedLink Georgia

About Us:

MedLink GA is a leading healthcare provider dedicated to delivering high-quality, patient-centered care across Georgia. We are seeking a compassionate and detail-oriented Dental Assistant to join our team and support healthcare professionals in providing top-notch medical services to our community.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES ( include, but are not limited to, the following)

Under the supervision of the dental provider, assists with the following duties and responsibilities:

• Assists the provider with routine dental checkups, screening patients, reviewing a patient's oral history and teaching appropriate brushing and flossing techniques
• Assists and/or performs basic dental care tasks and preventative oral hygiene
• Assists as necessary with extractions, including emergency extractions and/or urgent dental care

• Responsible for taking impressions and/or molds of teeth

• Assists the Provider with taking impressions
• Assists Provider with anything they need for adjustments to crowns, bridges or dentures

• Ensuring that sterile conditions are maintained
• Providing dental health education about tooth care and diet
• Prepare treatment rooms for patients by following prescribed procedures and protocols
• Prepare patient by welcoming, comforting, seating and draping the patient
• Provide information to patients by answering questions and request
• Provide 4 handed dentistry
• Properly handle, disinfect and sterile treatment rooms and instruments, according to OSHA standards
• Protect patients and employees by adhering to infection control policies and protocols
• Provide diagnostic information by taking X-rays, taking diagnostic models (pouring and trimming)
• Provide postoperative instructions and oral hygiene
• Maintain patient confidence and protects operations by keeping information confidential
• Maintain supply inventory of necessary materials to function on daily basis (i.e. Don't run out of gloves, anesthesia...)
• Maintain dental equipment according to manufactures instructions (cleaning autoclaves, changing filters, lubricating handpieces)
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending continued education courses annually
• Contribute to the team effort of accomplishing related tasks
• Other duties as assigned

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

Graduation from an approved Dental Laboratory program or and one year experience OR high school diploma (or equivalency) AND a minimum of one year related secretarial experience in the health care field or high school diploma (or equivalency).