Dental Assistant
Job Description
Job Description:
- Assisting the dentist during a variety of treatment procedures
- Perform different types of dental radiographs including intra-oral, extra-oral and CBCT X-Rays
- Recording the patient’s medical history
- Triaging the dental patients including blood pressure and pulse
- Preparing dental instruments for sterilization
- Implement environmental surfaces infection control measures as per policies in force
- Helping patients feel comfortable before, during and after dental treatment
- providing patients with instructions for oral care following surgery or other dental treatment procedures based on the dentist instructions
- Taking impressions and optical impressions of patients’ teeth for study casts (models of teeth)
- Performing office management tasks that often require the use of a personal computer
- Communicating with patients and dental coordinators (e.g., scheduling appointments, answering the telephone, billing and ordering supplies)
- Helping to provide direct patient care in all dental specialties, including orthodontics, pediatric dentistry, periodontics and oral surgery
- Escorting the patient from and to the waiting area, to the cashier office after treatment
- Assist dentist in management of medical or dental emergencies
- Maintain an updated SCHS license, BLS and other required licenses as per local regulation in force
- Implement dental department policies and procedures
- Submit replenishment requests to the dental coordinator
- Maintain the dental clinic inventory of materials, disposables and equipment; and ensure reporting any issues or discrepancies through the assigned channels
- Monitor and report expired dental materials
- Maintain an up to date dental laboratory cases records and update the dentist on the same
- Maintain patients’ confidentiality.
Education:
- Medical Nursing or Dental Assistant or dentist .
- Experience Fields: Dental Assisting.
