Dental Assistant

JOB DETAILS

Department: Dental Clinic
FTE: 0.6 (48 hours per pay period)
Workdays: varied
Shift(s): Days
Shift Length: 8 hours
Location: In-Person

Sign-On Bonus: $2500*
*Sign on bonus is available for eligible external candidates (current employees, contract/temporary workers, and former employees returning to HHS within one year are ineligible)

Purpose of this position: Under immediate supervision, performs work involving routine dental procedures.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
 

• Reviews patient chart and prepares instruments and equipment
• Performs procedures such as mixing impression material, taking impressions, pouring models, preparing base plates, preparing acrylic trays and bleaching trays
• Performs mechanical polishings
• Performs fluoride treatments
• Places rubber dam
• Removes sutures or excess cement from inlays, crowns and bridges
• Charts patient treatment received
• Provides dental hygiene instruction
• Performs x-ray procedures and develops film
• Provides dental chair assistance during oral surgical procedures, operating suction equipment, arranging lighting, sponging operative area and supplying instruments and materials
• Schedules patient appointments
• Cleans and maintains equipment and work area
• Sterilizes and wraps instruments
• Orders supplies
• Prepares and maintains records
• Administer and monitor nitrous oxide.  To administer, dental assistant must have completed a course on Nitrous Oxide administration
• Re-cement intact temporary restorations and place temporary fillings (not including temporization of inlays, onlays, crowns, and bridges) to promote palliative treatment
• Etch appropriate enamel surfaces, apply and adjust pit and fissure sealants.  Dental Assistant must have completed course on Sealant placement
• Perform restorative procedures limited to placing, contouring, and adjusting amalgam restorations, glass ionomers, and supragingival composite restorations (class I & V) and adapting and cementing stainless steel crowns.  To perform Dental Assistant must have completed Restorative Expanded Functions training
• Place and remove matrix bands
• Fabricate, cement, and adjust temporary restorations extraorally or intraorally
• Remove temporary restorations with hand instruments only
• Perform mechanical polishing to clinical crowns not including instrumental
• Apply topical mediations such as, but not limited to, topical fluoride, bleaching agents, and cavity varnishes in appropriate dosages or quantities as prescribed by a dentist
• Take impressions for cast and appropriate bite
• Dry root canals with paper points
• Place cotton pellets and temporary restorative materials into endodontic openings
• Performs related work as required, but only after appropriate training

QUALIFICATIONS:

Minimum Qualifications:

• Completion of an accredited dental assisting program
• Current license as a Dental Assistant through the State of Minnesota Board of Dentistry, or must pass the Minnesota Licensure Examination within 90 days of employment
• Basic Life Support

License/Certifications:

• Current license as a Dental Assistant through the State of Minnesota Board of Dentistry, or must pass the Minnesota Licensure Examination within 6 month of employment.
• Dental Assistant must have completed a course on nitrous oxide inhalation analgesia