Position Description: Provides chair side dental assistance, prepares and sterilizes equipment. Document patient care and take and develop x-rays. May provide administrative assistance. 
 
Essential Duties:

1. Assists the dentist during a variety of treatment procedures to include but not limited to placement of bases and liners and placement and removal of rubber dams, insertion, finishing, and removal of temporary restorations.


2. Prepares set-up trays for anesthetic, operative, prosthetic, periodontal, prophylactic, endodontic, and orthodontic dentistry. 


3. Prepares dental equipment and materials for treatment.


4. Takes and develops dental radiographs (x-rays).


5. Performs patient charting as instructed by the dentist.


6. Follows infection control protocol and prepares and sterilizes instruments and equipment.


7. Greets patient and gets them situated in the treatment room.


8. Provides patients with instructions for oral care following surgery or other dental treatment procedures.


9. Takes impressions of patients' teeth for study casts (models of teeth).


10. May perform office management tasks that often require the use of a personal computer. Schedules appointments, answers phones, data entry, and orders supplies.


11. Performs various duties as needed to successfully fulfill the functions of the position.

Education: High School Diploma or GED
 
Experience: 24 months experience performing chair side dental assistance
 
Equivalency/Substitution: Certified Dental Assistant (CDA) is equivalent to 12 months experience
 
Certifications:  2 of the 4 Certifications from Oklahoma Board of Dentistry: Radiation Protection and Safety Coronal Polishing and Topical Fluoride Placement of Pit and Fissure Sealants Assisting in the Administration of Nitrous Oxide