Full-Time
Dental Assistant 1
Contentnea Health
No salary listed
Bayboro, NC, USA
In Person
Certification
Category
 Medical, Clinical & Veterinary (1) |
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Required Skills
Vital Signs
Basic Life Support (BLS)
Requirements
- Possesses work-related skills at a higher level than completion of high school, including formal written and verbal communication skills, computational and computer skills, mathematical, technical, or health care-related knowledge typically acquired through completion of a trade school, paraprofessional, or certificate-type program.
- Possesses specific knowledge and training in the practice of dental assisting typically acquired through completion of a dental assisting program.
- Current Basic Life Support certification.
Responsibilities
- Provides assistance in the delivery of dental treatment.
- Seats patients, obtains and records vital signs, and charts medical and dental histories.
- Charts oral conditions as dictated by the dental provider.
- Prepares dental instruments for procedures.
- Obtains dental radiographs as needed.
- Provides chairside assistance to the dental provider during dental procedures.
- Maintains dental handpieces.
- Cleans, sanitizes, and maintains dental operatories.
- Cleans, sanitizes, and sterilizes dental instruments.
- Maintains the dental laboratory.
- Pours impressions and trims models.
- Processes laboratory cases.
- Assists the practice manager as needed.