Dental Assistant

Clay-Battelle Health Services Association; Blacksville (WV); On-site; USD 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Clay-Battelle Health Services Association is seeking a Dental Assistant to support dentists and staff in delivering quality dental services in a clinical setting. The role reports to the Dental Director and involves chairside assistance across restorative, surgical, endodontic, periodontics, and prosthetics procedures.

Responsibilities include preparing operatories, seating patients, reviewing histories, taking radiographs, charting findings, maintaining instruments, and ensuring infection

Qualifications

• The Dental Assistant must be responsible, have good interpersonal skills, good organizational skills, and excellent communication skills.
• Must have the ability to gain confidence and cooperation of patients.
• Must have the ability to establish effective working relationships with other employees.
• Must have pleasant demeanor when relating to patients in a businesslike manner.
• Must have accurate typing skills.
• Experience as a dental assistant is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Organize, maintain, and set up the operatories and sterilization room daily.
• Seat patients and review medical and dental history.
• Expose radiographs as determined by the dentist.
• Chart lesions and fillings for each patient’s record as dictated by the dentist.
• Clean/sterilize and maintain instruments and equipment. Sterilization of the operatories, instruments, and trays are to be completed after each patient.
• Maintain a clean operatory and equipment at all times.
• Assist the dentist in restorative procedures as needed.
• Assist in surgical, endodontic, periodontics, and prosthetics procedures.
• Work closely with the dentists on patient consultations and preparing treatment plans.
• Keep inventory of dental supplies to ensure supplies are present for daily operations.
• Notify the Collections Manager of items needing ordered.
• Adheres to OSHA, emergency preparedness, infection control and regulatory guidelines.
• Assist receptionist occasionally in answering phones and making appointments.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Organizational skills

Communication skills

Typing skills

Patient cooperation

Teamwork

Job description

Description

The Dental Assistant works with CBHSA's dentists and staff in providing quality dental services. The Dental Assistant is directly responsible to the Dental Director.

Job Duties (Includes, But Not Limited To)

• Organize, maintain, and set up the operatories and sterilization room daily.
• Seat patients and review medical and dental history.
• Expose radiographs as determined by the dentist.
• Chart lesions and fillings for each patient’s record as dictated by the dentist.
• Clean/sterilize and maintain instruments and equipment. Sterilization of the operatories, instruments, and trays are to be completed after each patient.
• Maintain a clean operatory and equipment at all times.
• Assist the dentist in the following as needed:
• Restorative: preparation of restoration, condensing, contouring, light cure, polishing, checking occlusion, crown/bridge preparation, try-in and cementation of crown/bridge, etc.
• Surgical: suture placement and removal, packing extraction site, etc.
• Endodontic: preparing file lengths as determined by the dentist, exposing radiographs, etc.
• Periodontics: including prophylaxis.
• Prosthetics: impressions, wax try-ins, denture repairs, adjustments, relines, etc.
• Work closely with the dentists on patient consultations and preparing treatment plans.
• Keep inventory of dental supplies to ensure supplies are present for daily operations. Notify the Collections Manager of items needing ordered.
• Adheres to OSHA, emergency preparedness, infection control and regulatory guidelines.
• Assist receptionist occasionally in answering phones and making appointments.

Working Conditions

Dental office environment. Multi-task oriented position may require sitting or standing for long periods. May involve contact with angry, upset, or ill persons. Will involve exposure to blood and body fluids and other hazardous substances. Must have visual acuity and manual dexterity to assist with procedures, and interface with computer. Must have auditory acuity to handle phone calls and extensive patient interaction.

Skills, Knowledge, And Experience

The Dental Assistant must be responsible, have good interpersonal skills, good organizational skills, and excellent communication skills. Must have the ability to gain confidence and cooperation of patients. Must have the ability to establish effective working relationships with other employees. Must have pleasant demeanor when relating to patients in a businesslike manner. Must have accurate typing skills. Experience as a dental assistant is preferred.