RDA/DENTAL ASSISTANCE

JOB DETAILS: Department: Dental Clinic; FTE: 1.0 (80 hours per pay period); Workdays: Monday - Friday; Shift Length: 8 hours. Sign‑On Bonus: $2,500* (Sign on bonus is available for eligible external candidates; current employees, contract/temporary workers, and former employees returning to HHS within one year are ineligible).

Purpose of this Position Under immediate supervision, performs work involving routine dental procedures.

Responsibilities Review patient chart and prepare instruments and equipment

Perform procedures such as mixing impression material, taking impressions, pouring models, preparing base plates, preparing acrylic trays and bleaching trays

Perform mechanical polishings

Perform fluoride treatments

Place rubber dam

Remove sutures or excess cement from inlays, crowns and bridges

Chart patient treatment received

Provide dental hygiene instruction

Perform x‑ray procedures and develop film

Provide dental chair assistance during oral surgical procedures, operating suction equipment, arranging lighting, sponging operative area and supplying instruments and materials

Schedule patient appointments

Cleans and maintain equipment and work area

Sterilizes and wraps instruments

Orders supplies

Prepare and maintain records

Administer and monitor nitrous oxide. To administer, dental assistant must have completed a course on Nitrous Oxide administration

Re‑cement intact temporary restorations and place temporary fillings (not including temporization of inlays, onlays, crowns, and bridges) to promote palliative treatment

Etch appropriate enamel surfaces, apply and adjust pit and fissure sealants. Dental Assistant must have completed course on Sealant placement

Perform restorative procedures limited to placing, contouring, and adjusting amalgam restorations, glass ionomers, and supragingival composite restorations (class I & V) and adapting and cementing stainless steel crowns. To perform Dental Assistant must have completed Restorative Expanded Functions training

Place and remove matrix bands

Fabricate, cement, and adjust temporary restorations extraorally or intraorally

Remove temporary restorations with hand instruments only

Perform mechanical polishing to clinical crowns not including instrumental

Apply topical mediations such as, but not limited to, topical fluoride, bleaching agents, and cavity varnishes in appropriate dosages or quantities as prescribed by a dentist

Take impressions for cast and appropriate bite

Dry root canals with paper points

Place cotton pellets and temporary restorative materials into endodontic openings

Perform related work as required, but only after appropriate training

Qualifications Completion of an accredited dental assisting program

Current license as a Dental Assistant through the State of Minnesota Board of Dentistry, or must pass the Minnesota Licensure Examination within 90 days of employment

Basic Life Support

Current license as a Dental Assistant through the State of Minnesota Board of Dentistry, or must pass the Minnesota Licensure Examination within 6 months of employment

Must have completed a course on nitrous oxide inhalation analgesia

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