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Grand Family Dentistry

Registered Dental Hygienist

Grand Family Dentistry, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, us, 70873

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It's a new day for career opportunities at Grand Family Dentistry so come join us!

Are you a motivated self-starter looking for professional and personal fulfillment in your dental career? Do you want to be part of an organization that is interested in your professional growth? Then come join our team!

Grand Family Dentistry is currently looking for a bright, motivated Dental Hygienist to help build our Hygiene program and create patients for life. Our goal is to become a leading periodontal health-focused practice in the area and we need your help to do it! The perfect Dental Hygienist for this position will play a critical role in educating patients about appropriate oral hygiene techniques and offer counseling around how good nutrition impacts one's overall oral health.

If you are bright, dedicated and driven to succeed, we want to talk to you. We are looking for professionals to help us create beautiful, healthy smiles – one patient at a time. A rewarding career with us includes a competitive compensation and benefits package as well as bragging rights of working with one of the most Google reviewed and the highest rated dental practice on Google reviews in the state of Louisiana. A career with Grand Family Dentistry is rewarding personally, professionally and financially!

Responsibility Highlights

Assess patients' teeth, bone, and periodontal tissues indicating the presence of any abnormalities or suspected diseases or conditions.

Creates periodontal treatment plans based on dentist's diagnosis.

Bring to the immediate attention of the dentist any suspected lesion in the mouth or on the teeth.

Thoroughly remove soft and hard deposits and extrinsic stain from teeth using hand instruments, ultrasonic cavitron inserts and prophy handpieces.

Instruct patients how to practice good oral hygiene; make recommendations as to appropriate products or devices for patients' home care; and provide other health care education, as necessary.

Perform prophylaxis in the absence of periodontal disease or gingivitis.

Perform full mouth debridement, either as a first stage gingivitis therapy or to remove interfering calculus to further enable a more accurate diagnosis and treatment plan.

Perform root planning as a periodontal therapy.

Place locally-administered antibiotics as supportive periodontal therapy.

Implement irrigation and desensitizing procedures or products as adjunctive to periodontal therapy.

Expose, develop and mount dental x-rays (intraoral and extraoral).

Perform In-Office Whitening procedures, including applying gingival isolation, initial and subsequent bleaching gel, and curing gel.

Apply cavity-preventive agents, such as fluorides and pit and fissure sealants.

Make recommendations as to patients' recare interval and follow-up needs.

All other duties and responsibilities as assigned and allowed under applicable state laws and regulations.

Qualifications

Dental hygienists must be licensed and in good standing with the State of Louisiana.

Associate or Bachelor's degree in dental hygiene.

Current Basic Life Support (BLS) and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) certificate.

Dental hygienists must be willing to partner with the dentist, work well as part of the total dental team and should have good eye sight and manual dexterity, because they use dental instruments within a patient's mouth, with little room for error.

Benefits

401(k)

401(k) matching

Dental insurance

Employee discount

Flexible schedule

Health insurance

Life insurance

Enjoy working in a fun, fast paced, brand new state of the art environment

Job Types: Part-time, Full-time

Pay: $85,000.00 - $150,000.00 per year

License/Certification

Registered Dental Hygienist (Required)

Ability to Commute

Baton Rouge, LA 70817 (Required)

Work Location In person

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