Dental Assistant Job at Seaborn Health Care in Glenville
Seaborn Health Care, Glenville, WV, United States, 26351
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Place of Performance: Services will be performed on-site in the Dental/Health Services Department: FCI Gilmer, 201 FCI Lane, Glenville, WV 26351.
Job Description: The contractor will normally provide 8 (1) hour sessions per day, 3-5 days per week, excluding Federal Holidays. A session is defined as one hour. Work hours will normally be between 7:30am and 4:00pm with a 30-minute unpaid lunch break. The contractor shall not normally exceed 40 hours per week.
Education And Experience: The Dental Assistant shall possess specialty training from a licensed dentist and/or certification from an accredited Dental Assistant school. Training must include dental radiology and radiology safety. The Dental Assistant shall be certified in Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) in accordance with the American Red Cross or the American Heart Association and have a minimum of one (1) year of experience providing Dental Assistant services.
Responsibilities:
- Assists Dental Officer in dental specialty sections: restorative, oral surgery, periodontics, prosthetics, and examinations.
- Retrieve patient’s records and escorts patients to proper dental specialty section; seats and prepares patient for attending Dental Officer
- Assists Dental Officer by preparing dental instruments, essential materials, drugs, and medications
- Passes instruments, retracts tissues, irrigates oral cavity, and operates aspirator
- Observes patient’s responses, and assists patient for dismissal from the Dental Clinic
- Gives instructions for subsequent dental appointments
- Makes necessary entries on dental treatment records (both electronic and paper records)
- Prepares dental treatment room for the next patient
- Assists in the treatment of emergency cases.
- Provides dental health education
- Dental prophylaxis
- Dental screening examination
- Preparation of patients for periodontal surgery
- Dental and periodontal charting
- Prepares places, and removes packs
- Places temporary fillings
- Places and removes rubber dams
- Maintains dental equipment
- Cleans, sharpens, and sterilizes instruments
- Performs daily inspection of equipment and makes minor repairs
- Reports defective equipment, or utilizes corrective action
- Performs routine oral prophylaxis of the clinical crowns of teeth
- Uses dental hand instruments, mechanical instruments (including ultrasonic), oral hygiene aides and prophylaxis paste to provide necessary oral prophylactic services
- Prepares entries for patient’s records
- Selects and applies medication in proper portion and anti-cariogenic agents to surface of teeth Applies medication prescribed by a Dental Officer to gingiva to promote healing
- Fabricates and repairs dental prosthesis and appliances under supervision
- Performs procedures pursuant to fabrication and repair of complete denture prosthesis and removable partial prosthesis
- Uses acrylic resins and porcelain as basic materials
Hourly Pay: $17.75 per hour plus an additional $4.93 per hour for Health & Wellness. This is equivalent to $22.68 per hour
Company Description: We are a healthcare company with over 25 years of experience placing healthcare workers in Federal facilities Nationwide.