Dental Assistant

Dental Assistant Position at Wylie Dental Care

Wylie Dental Care is expanding fast – Looking for a dedicated Dental Assistant.

Important details:

• Full-time, on-site role at a high-end general practice performing oral surgery, implants, full-mouth reconstruction, CAD-CAM dentistry, and TMD treatment.
• Strong growth potential. The dentist personally trains and delegates extensively — assistants take impressions and scans, seat crowns, make bite guards, and even design and mill prostheses.

Offered salary and other compensation:

• Depending on your experience and performance record, we offer a yearly salary of $40,000 to $70,000.
• Paid, structured one-on-one training
• Dental and optical benefits
• 401(k)
• Paid time off
• Continuing education support

About our practice:

Wylie Dental Care has served patients since 1987. Dr. Charles Wylie has spent decades adopting the best techniques in every specialty — oral surgery, periodontal surgery, orthodontics, TMD treatment, full-mouth reconstruction, implants, and digital CAD-CAM dentistry. We treat staff and patients like family, and recommend the same treatment we would for our own.

Why you should join our group:

Our atmosphere is curious, open, safe, and creative — within the discipline of delivering excellent dental care on time. This is a place where growth-mindset people flourish: we celebrate the willingness to try, learn, and even fail in pursuit of mastery. Team members frequently say the days fly by because they are engaged and constantly developing new skills.

Our Location: 1589 Wheeling Ave., Glen Dale, WV 26038

Your schedule: Monday to Friday, 8:30 am – 5:30 pm (occasional evenings on full-mouth reconstruction overruns)

Your mission & responsibilities as Dental Assistant:

Help the dentist create happy patients who are dentally sound, comfortable, and refer others to the practice. Keep patients calm by communicating clearly while reading how they are responding.

• Accurately gather patient data through impressions and intraoral scans
• Assist or suction in 4-handed and 6-handed dentistry scenarios
• Learn and hand all instruments on cue; manage cassettes through sterilization
• Set up and clean rooms before and after every procedure
• Pour and trim models in the lab; scan them into the computer
• Make bite guards, retainers, and custom impression trays
• More advanced: design crowns and prostheses in CAD software, then mill and finish them
• Educate, motivate, and reassure patients throughout treatment

Required experience and qualifications:

• Minimum 2 years of work experience, not necessarily in the Dental field. But helpful!
• Strong hand skills and spatial-relationship perception
• Background in athletics, or hobbies like drawing, painting, or crafts, is a plus

Preferred soft skills and personality traits:

• Growth mindset — willing to make mistakes and learn from them
• Focused on the process, not on looking good
• Flexible and resilient
• Clear, empathetic communicator
• Self-motivated, responsible, and a strong team player
• Decisive problem solver, organized, able to work under time pressure

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