Dentist (Regular Full-Time)

Job Title

General Practice Dental Officer

Job Description

The general practice dental officer serves as a practicing dentist who performs a full range of professional dental procedures in connection with the treatment of commonly encountered dental diseases or dental health problems requiring standard corrective, restorative, or preventive measures. The General Dentistry dental officer shall be proficient in all aspects of general dentistry including the ability to perform selected specialty services. Specifically, the provider should possess the expertise and competency to perform the following:

• Make oral and radiographic examinations of the oral cavity.
• Diagnose pathological or irregular oral conditions.
• Administer local anesthesia.
• Perform routine and complex restoration of teeth.
• Perform simple and complex extractions of teeth.
• Perform alveoloplasty and other routine surgical procedures.
• Perform prosthetic dentistry to include immediate dentures, full dentures, partial dentures, crowns and fixed bridge work.
• Perform routine endodontic procedures on single and multi-canal teeth.
• Perform routine and surgical periodontal procedures.
• Perform basic dental implant restorations including single crowns and overdentures.
• Integrated Veteran Care (IVC) provide clinical review of all incoming request for service submitted by contract community care dental providers, using the consult tool box.
• Provide clinical review of all submitted IVC consults entered by the Tennessee Valley Healthcare (TVH) Veterans Administration (VA) Dentist indicate approval or denial of dental care requested.
• Collaborate with IVC Community Care (CC) staff act as liaison to resolve complex request or questions regarding clinical care approval or denials.
• Assist in resolving patient advocate complaints regarding CC approvals or denials. Serve as liaison within the VA dental service for staff regarding CC eligibility, Standard Episodes of Care (SEOC), explanation of approvals and denials, provide staff education of IVC program and process changes.
• Serve as a liaison between VA and IVC Community care dental providers by responding to clinic questions and by conducting quarterly education sessions.

The scope of practice that a specific provider may perform is defined through the medical center credentialing and privileging process.

US Department of Veterans Affairs