Professional Opportunity: Full-Time Employment

-Prepares patient for dental hygiene treatment by welcoming, soothing, seating, and draping patient.

-Provides information to patients and employees by answering questions and requests.

-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.

-Maintains patient appearance and ability to masticate by fabricating temporary restorations, cleaning, and polishing removable appliances.

-Educates patients by giving oral hygiene and plaque control instructions and postoperative instructions and providing reminders of time of next dental hygiene visit.

-Documents dental hygiene services by recording vital signs and medical and dental histories and charting in patient records.

-Maintains patient confidence and protects operations by keeping information confidential.

-Maintains safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations.

-Protects patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols.

-Ensures operation of dental equipment by completing preventive maintenance requirements, following manufacturer’s instructions, troubleshooting malfunctions, and calling for repairs, maintaining equipment inventories, and evaluating new equipment and techniques.

-Maintains dental supplies inventory by checking stock to determine inventory level, anticipating needed supplies, placing and expediting orders for supplies, and verifying receipt of supplies.