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.