Family Health Centers is hiring: Dental Assistant in Bridgeport

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Are you interested in a new career as a Dental Assistant? Dentistry continues to be ranked as one of the top 10 professions in the nation! No experience is necessary, we will train you. You can earn a competitive salary, work four days per week, and learn various skills in a dental office environment.

Our family-friendly dental clinic is seeking a compassionate Dental Assistant who will treat our patients with the highest quality of care.

Primary Duties And Responsibilities

• Communicates patient health information to dental providers and team members.
• Answers patient phone calls, documents and communicates questions in Electronic Dental Records (EDR) and Electronic Medical Records (EHR) to the provider as necessary.
• Relays appropriate information to the patient from provider documents in EDR.
• Coordinates and processes refill requests with the provider.
• Direct Patient Care
• Obtains and records vital signs and updates patient health history.
• Responsible for patient education in Oral Health Instructions (OHI).
• Performs diagnostic testing limited to tooth vitality.
• Administers medications including sedative drugs, and topical anesthetics.
• Administers inhalation of minimal sedation (nitrous oxide) analgesia, including starting and stopping the flow as directed by the supervising dentist.
• Responsible for placing, exposing and processing intraoral Panoramic and Cephalometric radiographs.
• Prepares patient for treatment and gives preoperative and postoperative instructions.
• Responsible for fabricating and delivering temporary crowns, bleaching, fluoride tray cements and removes temporary crowns and bridges.
• Responsible for packing and medicating extraction areas. Places periodontal packs and removes packs or sutures.
• Processes impressions, bite registrations or digital scans of teeth and jaw for diagnostic and opposing models.
• Performs direct restorative treatment by placing acid etch, bonding agents, wedge, matrix and cavity base materials.
• Triages patients and performs oral inspection of patient and charts existing restorations.
• Pre-fits fixed and removable orthodontic appliances, occlusal guards, bleaching trays and fluoride trays.
• Removes fixed orthodontic appliances, orthodontic cements, and the orthodontic bonded resin material.

Professional & Technical Knowledge

• Possesses a basic level of written and verbal communications skills, computational and computer skills and mathematical knowledge typically acquired through completion of a high school program or GED.

Licenses And Certifications

• Employee must be registered as a Dental Assistant with the state of Washington and hold a current basic life support certification.

Seniority level

• Entry level

Employment type

• Temporary

Job function

• Health Care Provider

Industries

• Hospitals and Health Care