Dental Assistant Job at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis
Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN, United States, 55415
SUMMARY:
We are currently seeking a full-time Dental Assistant to join our team. This position works Monday - Friday day hours, at our new clinical and specialty center.
Purpose of this position: Under immediate supervision, performs work involving routine dental procedures.
A $2500 hiring incentive is available for eligible external candidates (current employees, contract/temporary workers, and former employees returning to HHS within one year are ineligible).
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