Registered Dental Hygienist
Wheelock & Bursick Dentistry
Sioux City, IA
Full-time
Dentistry
Posted on April 27, 2018
Full Time Certified Dental Assistant Candidate must be a self-starter, computer competent, dependable, embraces change and a good team player. Good benefits including 401K and Health Insurance. Please email or call Marilyn office manager at Wheelock and Associates Dentistry mjwheel@gmail.com712-490-1171
Dental Hygienist Job Description & Responsibilities:
Promotes dental health by completing dental prophylaxis; providing oral cancer screening and radiographic studies; charting conditions of decay and disease; performing procedures in compliance with the dental practice act.
Dental Hygienist Job Duties:
- Prepares treatment room for patient by adhering to prescribed procedures and protocols.
- Maintains patient appearance and ability to masticate by fabricating temporary restorations; cleaning and polishing removable appliances; placing, carving, and finishing amalgam restorations; removing cement from crowns and bridges.
- Maintains instrumentation for dental hygiene treatment by sharpening, sterilizing, and selecting instruments.
- Selects materials and equipment for dental hygiene visit by evaluating patient's oral health.
- Completes dental prophylaxis by cleaning deposits and stains from teeth and from beneath gum margins.
- Detects disease by completing oral cancer screening; feeling and visually examining gums; using probes to locate periodontal disease and to assess levels of recession; exposing and developing radiographic studies.
- Helps dentist manage dental and medical emergencies by maintaining cpr certification, emergency drugs and oxygen supply, and directory of emergency numbers.
- Prepares patient for dental hygiene treatment by welcoming, soothing, seating, and draping patient.
- Provides information to patients and employees by answering questions and requests.
- Arrests dental decay by applying fluorides and other cavity- preventing agents.