Certified Dental Assistant OR EFDA

*** JOB DUTIES VARY ON POSITION ***

• Records treatment information on the patient’s chart, including treatment rendered, the type of treatment planned and the amount of chair time, doctor time and assistant time needed for next appointment.
• Assists the doctor by passing instruments, aspirating intra-oral fluids, mixing materials and medicaments during examinations or treatment.
• Provides customer service support to patients by escorting them to and from the treatment room and prepping them for care by the doctor.
• Exposes digital X-rays.
• Prepares all treatment rooms including, but not limited to, set-up, decontamination, sterilization of all instruments, cleaning and restocking.
• Maintains cleanliness of the lab and sterilizing area.
• Changes all chemical solutions, i.e., disinfectant soaks and sprays, sterilents, ultrasonic, and presoak.
• Reviews patient’s medical history, progress from the previous visit, if applicable, and the scheduled treatment plan with each patient.
• Takes impressions for diagnostic and opposing models, cast restorations, space maintainers, whitening trays, and occlusal guards.
• Ensures lights, units, nitrous equipment and automatic processors are turned on prior to the first patient.
• Applies non-aerosol and non-caustic topical agents, fluoride, and pit and fissure sealants.
• Inspects patient’s oral cavity and charts lesions, existing restorations and missing teeth.
• Places and removes temporary sedative dressings and post-extraction and periodontal dressings.
• Helps administer nitrous oxide to patients as applicable.
• Cleans hand pieces, and vacuum traps.
• Places and removes rubber dams.
• Places, wedges, and holds and removes anterior matrices.
• Place and contour amalgam, composite and other restorative materials prior to final setting and/or curing of the material.
• Use of high-speed, power driven handpiece instruments to contour and finish newly placed composite materials.
• Place, contour and finish temporary fillings.
• Obtains endodontic cultures.
• Dries canals with absorbent points.
• Tests pulp vitality.
• Places bases and liners on dentin.
• Removes excess cement from supragingival surfaces of teeth.
• Sizes stainless steel crowns, temporary crowns, and bands.
• Performs coronal polishing.
• Prepares teeth for bonding by etching.
• Determines root and endodontic file length.
• Fits trial endodontic filling points.
• Pours and trims study models.
• Monitors incoming and outgoing lab cases.
• Orders supplies.
• Maintains plaster trap and lab counter areas.