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