Dental Assistant (Expanded Function)
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- Date:04/29/2008
- Location:Browning
- State:Montana
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Expanded Functions Assistant
Job Description
Become a part of the Department that touches the lives of every American! At the Department of Health and Human Services you can give back to your community, state, and country by making a difference in the lives of Americans everywhere. Join HHS and help to make our world healthier, safer and better for all Americans.
Various positions to be filled under this vacancy announcement.
Performs a wide range of reversible intra-oral dental procedures under the direction of the Dentist. Cleans, Sharpens and Sterilizes instruments using approved techniques for autoclave and chemclave.
Prepares instruments for sterilization, packages and stores in appropriate places in units. Receives and prepares patients for treatment. Relays to patient post-treatment instructions from the dentist. Provides four-handed chair side assistance to the dentist. During oral surgery, cuts sutures, preserves tissue for biopsy and observes essential aseptic practice. Places and removes rubber dam, matrix bands, and wedges. Performs receptionist duties and answers phone, as staffing needs require. After treatment, irrigates tooth, places medications and places the temporary, or permanent restoration. Takes and processes x-rays of diagnostic quality for all dental procedures. Instructs patients in oral hygiene practices, provides other preventive information, and applies sealants. Performs prophylaxis, including the removal of supra, and sub-gingival calculus using hand instrumentation and/or cavitron.
Inventories dental supplies and maintains established levels by ordering new supplies with sterile and consumable supplies. Restores teeth prepared by the dentist with permanent and temporary filling: places bases and liners, selects, adapts and places matrix bands on normal ad abnormal teeth; places, condenses, carves, finishes and polishes amalgam restorations; places and finishes composite restorations.
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