Expanded Duties Dental Assistant
Advanced Dental Center
- Federal Heights, CO
- $24.00-28.00 per hour
- Permanent
- Full-time
Compensation: $24-28/hour
Schedule: Monday 8-5, Tuesday & Thursday 7-2 & Wednesday 1-7Job responsibilities/duties:
- Ensure patients comfort during procedures
- Preparing operatories for treatment
- Sterilizing instruments
- Directly assist dentist during procedures using four handed dentistry technique
- Take x-rays and intraoral photos
- Accurately and efficiently treatment plan based on doctor’s diagnosis
- Scheduling patients
- Providing patient education and post-operative instruction
- Dental charting and coding
- Ensure compliance with infection control protocols
- Perform lab duties such as pouring models, taking impressions, and fabricating temporary crowns
- Administrative tasks such as answering phones, calling labs, and patient follow-up calls
- Stock supplies and maintain equipment
- Accurately document and maintain Patient Health Information
- Collaboration with team-members
- Ordering supplies and maintaining budgets
- Place temporary and permanent restorations in teeth and shape to proper contour
- *Removes sutures and places rubber dams as directed by dentist
- *Place Sealants
- *Fluoride Application
- *Coronal Polishing
- *Take final impressions
- *Monitor nitrous oxide
- High School Diploma or equivalent
- CPR/BLS certification required
- Completion of an accredited dental assisting program preferred
- EDDA Certification required (minimum of one year experience without certification required for Colorado)
- Radiology Certification required
- *School Sealant Program completion
- Knowledge of dental terminology, procedures, and instruments
- Proficiency in dental patient management software such as Open Dental or Dentrix
- Knowledge of prosthodontics for restorations
- Experience working with Clear Aligners such as Invisalign is a plus
- Strong teamwork and communication skills
- Ability to multi-task
- Attention to detail
- Adaptability
- Medical with company paid contribution
- Dental
- Vision
- Company paid Basic Life
- Ancillary benefits
- Supplemental Life and AD&D Insurance
- Critical Illness
- Short-Term Disability
- Long-Term Disability
- Accident
- Competitive 401K – up to 4% match
- Competitive PTO
- Paid Holidays
- A fun, friendly, and collaborative culture – focus on a healthy work/life balance