Dental Assistant

Dental Clinic Assistant Under immediate supervision, performs work involving routine dental procedures. Responsibilities include: Reviewing patient chart and preparing instruments and equipment Performing procedures such as mixing impression material, taking impressions, pouring models, preparing base plates, preparing acrylic trays and bleaching trays Performing mechanical polishings Performing fluoride treatments Placing rubber dam Removing sutures or excess cement from inlays, crowns and bridges Charting patient treatment received Providing dental hygiene instruction Performing x-ray procedures and developing film Providing dental chair assistance during oral surgical procedures, operating suction equipment, arranging lighting, sponging operative area and supplying instruments and materials Scheduling patient appointments Cleaning and maintaining equipment and work area Sterilizing and wrapping instruments Ordering supplies Preparing and maintaining records Administering and monitoring nitrous oxide Re-cementing intact temporary restorations and placing temporary fillings Etching appropriate enamel surfaces, applying and adjusting pit and fissure sealants Performing restorative procedures limited to placing, contouring, and adjusting amalgam restorations, glass ionomers, and supragingival composite restorations, and adapting and cementing stainless steel crowns Placing and removing matrix bands Fabricating, cementing, and adjusting temporary restorations extraorally or intraorally Removing temporary restorations with hand instruments only Performing mechanical polishing to clinical crowns not including instrumental Applying topical mediations such as topical fluoride, bleaching agents, and cavity varnishes in appropriate dosages or quantities as prescribed by a dentist Taking impressions for cast and appropriate bite Drying root canals with paper points Placing cotton pellets and temporary restorative materials into endodontic openings Performing related work as required, but only after appropriate training #J-18808-Ljbffr