Dental Assistant (Expanded Function)
Department of Health and Human Services
Job Title
Dental Assistant
Duties
The duties of the Dental Assistant include:
- Performs routine and complex alloy and composite restorations, including those requiring pin retention, cusp build-ups, multi-surface restorations, and incisal angle replacement.
- Selects, adapts, seats, and cements stainless steel crowns and fabricates and places temporary crowns and bridges.
- Places bases and liners, contours matrices, carves and polishes restorations, and finishes complex restorations independently within established guidelines.
- Performs advanced chairside assisting while allowing the dentist to transition to the next patient.
- Applies and removes rubber dams, removes sutures, applies periodontal dressings, and takes preliminary impressions.
- Performs oral prophylaxis and advanced calculus removal using ultrasonic and hand instruments.
- Conducts expanded dental laboratory functions, including mounting casts on articulators and pouring final impressions.
- Actively participates in quality assurance/quality improvement activities, community outreach, and patient education.
- Exercises greater judgment in selecting instruments and techniques, with work reviewed periodically rather than continuously.
Vacancy posted 8 hours ago
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