Registered Dental Assistant

Pay: From $25.00 per hour

POSITION: Registered Dental Assistant

POSITION SUMMARY: The Registered Dental Assistant performs the full range of RDA functions allowed by California law under the supervision of a California licensed dentist. The RDA is skilled in all phases of dental assisting from surgery, prosthodontics, and endodontics to pedodontics and orthodontics. Able to communicate well with patients, establish good rapport, make patients comfortable in the dental setting and assist in dental education.

You will take primary responsibility for ordering dental supplies and equipment. You will take responsibility for staying current with changes in CALOSHA, CDC guidelines and I.H.S. Infection Control Guidelines and ensuring that the dental department meets or exceeds guidelines.

POSITION OUTLINE:

• Physical requirements: An eligible candidate must possess the ability:
• Sit for extended periods of time.
• Be able to sustain prolonged standing, bending, stooping and light lifting without pain. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Use full range of sense of hearing, speech, and vision.
• Display manual dexterity as applicable to position.
• Pass all employment physical/medical examinations.

General Duties and Responsibilities :

• Must be over the age of 18 years.
• Graduate of an accredited dental assisting program (preferred)
• Minimum two - year experience.
• Current California RDA license.
• Requires current certification in CPR.
• Ability to effectively communicate in English, both written and verbal.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret dental terminology and procedures.
• Reliable employment history.
• Ability to pass a Pre-Employment drug screen and criminal background check/ fingerprinting in accordance with all applicable laws regarding the nature of the employment.
• Maintain a "Professional Image" in one's appearance and hygiene.
• Requires discretion, confidentiality, resourcefulness, and good judgment in handling functions of a sensitive nature.
• Must be efficient, flexible, professional, team player, well organized.
• Ability to have a good relationship with co-workers in a close environment.

Clinical Duties Under Direct of Supervisor, as per DDS:

• Adjust dentures extra-orally.
• After adjustment by DDS, seat removable orthodontic appliances.
• Apply pit and fissure sealants (must be certified).
• Apply and activate bleaching agents using a non-laser light curing device.
• Apply non-aerosol and non-caustic topical agents.
• Apply topical fluoride. (May operate under general supervision in a school-based setting, or government run public health program.)
• Assist in the administration of nitrous oxide. May not start or adjust the flow, except in the case of a medical emergency.
• Chemically prepare tooth for bonding.
• Cure restorative or orthodontic material.
• Dry endodontically treated canals with paper points.
• Examine orthodontic appliances.
• Fabricate, adjust, cement, and remove indirect provisional restorations, including stainless steel crowns when used as a temporary restoration.
• Mouth mirror inspection of the oral cavity to include charting obvious lesions, existing restorations, and missing teeth.
• Obtain intraoral images for computer aided design (CAD) milled restorations.
• Perform measurements for the purpose of orthodontic treatment.
• Place and remove orthodontic separators.
• Place and remove rubber dams or other isolation devices.
• Place bases, Liners, and bonding agents.
• Place ligature ties and arch wires.
• Place patient monitoring sensors.
• Place periodontal dressings.
• Place post-extraction dressings after inspection of the surgical site by the dentist.
• Place, adjust and finish provisional restorations.
• Place, wedge, and remove matrices for restorative procedures.
• Polish coronal surfaces of teeth.
• Pulp vitality tests and record findings.
• Remove ligature ties and arch wires.
• Remove excess cement from surfaces of teeth with a hand instrument.
• Remove orthodontic bands.
• Remove periodontal dressings.
• Remove post-extraction dressings after inspection of the surgical site by the dentist.
• Remove sutures after inspection of the site by the dentist.
• Take facebow transfers and bite registrations.
• Take intraoral impressions for all nonprosthodontic appliances.
• Use of automated caries detection devices and materials to gather information for diagnosis by the dentist.
• Accurate and complete records are kept in the patient's chart of all treatment rendered and treatment planned.
• Attends continuing dental education in order to keep up all licenses and to keep current on new techniques and philosophies related to all aspects of dentistry.
• Maintains a current CPR card & California State Dental License

Job Type: Full-time

Work Location: In person

Benefits:

• 403(b)
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid sick time
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

Pay: From $25.00 per hour

Expected hours: No less than 40.0 per week

Benefits:

• 403(b)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid sick time
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

Experience:

• Registered Dental Assistant: 1 year (Preferred)

Work Location: In person