Dental Assistant I

4 days ago

Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States La Familia Medical Center Full time

Job Summary:

Dental Assistant I provides clinical support to the dentist and dental hygienist with usual and customary dental procedures and patient education, assuring patient safety and comfort.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Receives patients and prepares them for dental procedures, both physically and emotionally.
  • Interviews and conducts preliminary assessment and triage of patients to determine reasons for visit, obtains dental health history and checks appropriate vitals.
  • Assists dentists in usual and customary procedures, including four (4) handed dentistry.
  • Exposes, processes, and mounts X-rays both digitally and manually.
  • Prepares cases for lab including filling out lab slip and coordination with lab for pick up/delivery.
  • Prepares instruments for sterilization and storage in trays.
  • Cleans and prepares equipment and examination rooms for patients and cleans rooms after each encounter and as needed.
  • Maintains re-stocking supplies for each exam room and treatment rooms.
  • Assists La Familia Medical Center patient education efforts, making available and distributing patient information and literature related to dental health promotion/disease prevention for all patient age categories.
  • Maintains patient files in a timely and accurate manner by updating information pertaining to medication refills, laboratory reports/results, patient dental visits, and other patient data/information required by LFMC providers and protocols.
  • Assists with conducting patient case management tasks and patient discharge plans to include patient referrals, prescription refills, and schedules specialty appointments.
  • Trains and/or oversees student dental assistants.

Requirements:

  • High School graduate or GED certificate and graduation from an ADA recognized certificate program is required with appropriate degree and/or certification such as Dental Assistant program.
  • Three months related experience is required; or any equivalent combination of experience, training and/or education approved by Human Resources.
  • State of New Mexico certification in Dental Assistant radiology (6 months to obtain once employed); Including, but not limited to, coronal polishing, fluoride treatment and sealant certifications, or other Dental Assistant certifications are preferred.
  • CPR is required.

La Familia Medical Center offers a comparable benefits package.

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