If you are a dental assistant with your DA certification, we would love to have your help in our dental clinic! We would welcome a 4-hour or 8-hour shift that fits your schedule, Tuesday-Friday. If interested, respond to this opportunity and a YUGM staff member will call you to talk about the details. Thank you!
Duties will include the following:
- Oral inspection, with no diagnosis.
- Take and record blood pressure and vital signs.
- Take digital radiographs.
- Take intra-oral and extra-oral photographs.
- Perform coronal polish. A licensed dentist shall determine the teeth are free of calculus or other extraneous material prior to dismissing the patient.
- Give fluoride treatments.
- Give patient education in oral hygiene.
- Give preoperative and postoperative instructions.
- Place topical anesthetics.
- Place and remove the rubber dam.
- Apply sealants.
- Place a matrix and wedge for a direct restorative material after the dentist has prepared the cavity.
- Place cavity liners and bases with DDS supervision.
- Perform acid etch and apply bonding agents.
- Polish restorations but may not intra-orally adjust or finish permanent restorations.
- Sterilize equipment and disinfect operatories.
- Place retraction cord.
- Hold in place and remove impression materials after the dentist has placed them.
- Take impressions and bite registrations of the teeth and jaws for: diagnostic and opposing models, fixed and removable orthodontic appliances, occlusal guards, bleaching trays, fluoride trays, and temporary indirect restorations such as temporary crowns.
- Fabricate, cement, and remove temporary crowns or temporary bridges.
- Remove the excess cement after the dentist has placed a permanent or temporary inlay, crown, bridge or appliance.
- Place a temporary filling (as zinc oxide-eugenol (ZOE)) after diagnosis and examination by the dentist.
- Pack and medicate extraction areas.
- Remove sutures.
- Select restoration or denture shade.
Copies of current DA and BLS certifications are required.
