• Dental Assistant

    Minnesota Visiting Nurse Agency (Minneapolis, MN)


    *_SUMMARY:_*

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    We are currently seeking a *Dental Assistant*to join our organization. This position is full-time, working 80 hours per 2 week pay period. It works days Monday -Friday.

    *Purpose of this position: *Under immediate supervision, perform 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

    **Title:** *Dental Assistant*

    **Location:** *MN-Minneapolis-Downtown Campus*

    **Requisition ID:** *242382*