Dental Assistants Jobs

Dental Assistants are critical to the overall operations of our dental practices. The dental assistant’s primary responsibility is to support the dentists and hygienists who provide the clinical care to our patients.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Sterilization of instruments and delivering instruments to treatment area
• Maintains patient confidence and protects operations by keeping information confidential.
• Provides diagnostic information by taking x-rays and intra oral pictures
• Chart patient information and other clinical duties, enter treatment plan and update necessary patient information on file.
• Educates patients by giving oral hygiene, plaque control, and postoperative instructions.
• Prepares treatment room for patient by following prescribed procedures and protocols.
• Maintains patient appearance and ability to masticate by fabricating temporary restorations; cleaning and polishing removable appliances.
• Prepares patient for dental treatment by welcoming, comforting and seating patient with proper draping

Other Duties:

• When available, assist in the cleanup and setup of treatment rooms.
• Log-in to all practice programs in the AM (ie. Emails, Dental Intel and Lighthouse)
• Assist in building a “Trust Factor” with all patients.
• Serve as Patient Referral/Reviews Liaison.
• Assist to uncover patients Personal Motivators”.
• Participate in the Morning Huddle by reviewing patient charts prior to meeting and identifying scheduling concerns, unfinished treatments, patients who are difficult to work on, etc.
• Cover other areas within the practice as needed and when needed.
• Assist in asking “A” patients for referrals and reviews.
• Perform a “Trust Transfer” to either the Scheduling Coordinator or Treatment Coordinator.

Expectations:

Meet daily goal set for doctor use the “Standards of Care” as a guideline for treatment required, and the Healthy Mouth Baseline as a comparison. Assist in identifying treatment required for patients, and monitor the results. Educate patients on conditions present, consequences of not moving forward and treatment solutions recommended.