Dental Assistant

Dental Clinic AssistantUnder immediate supervision, performs work involving routine dental procedures.Responsibilities include:Reviewing patient chart and preparing instruments and equipmentPerforming procedures such as mixing impression material, taking impressions, pouring models, preparing base plates, preparing acrylic trays and bleaching traysPerforming mechanical polishingsPerforming fluoride treatmentsPlacing rubber damRemoving sutures or excess cement from inlays, crowns and bridgesCharting patient treatment receivedProviding dental hygiene instructionPerforming x-ray procedures and developing filmProviding dental chair assistance during oral surgical procedures, operating suction equipment, arranging lighting, sponging operative area and supplying instruments and materialsScheduling patient appointmentsCleaning and maintaining equipment and work areaSterilizing and wrapping instrumentsOrdering suppliesPreparing and maintaining recordsAdministering and monitoring nitrous oxideRe-cementing intact temporary restorations and placing temporary fillingsEtching appropriate enamel surfaces, applying and adjusting pit and fissure sealantsPerforming restorative procedures limited to placing, contouring, and adjusting amalgam restorations, glass ionomers, and supragingival composite restorations (class I & V) and adapting and cementing stainless steel crownsPlacing and removing matrix bandsFabricating, cementing, and adjusting temporary restorations extraorally or intraorallyRemoving temporary restorations with hand instruments onlyPerforming mechanical polishing to clinical crowns not including instrumentalApplying topical mediations such as, but not limited to, topical fluoride, bleaching agents, and cavity varnishes in appropriate dosages or quantities as prescribed by a dentistTaking impressions for cast and appropriate biteDrying root canals with paper pointsPlacing cotton pellets and temporary restorative materials into endodontic openingsPerforming related work as required, but only after appropriate training