"Dental Surgical Assistant"

Dental Surgical Assistant

Company: University of Oklahoma

Job Location: Oklahoma-Oklahoma City-Health Sciences Center

Category: Health and Medical Services

Type: Full-Time

Job Number: 252208

Organization: Surgical Sciences

Schedule: Monday-Friday 8:00 AM-5:00 PM

Work Type: Onsite

Salary Range: Targeted salary of $38,100 annually, based on experience

Benefits Provided: Yes

Required Attachments: Resume, Cover Letter, Other Document (See Job Requirements for details)

Job Description

The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (OU HSC) is one of the nation's few academic health centers with all health-related colleges - Allied Health, Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Public Health, and the Graduate College. OU HSC serves approximately 4,000 students in more than 70 undergraduate and graduate degree programs on campuses in Oklahoma City and Tulsa.

Duties:

• Assists faculty, residents, and dental students with oral surgery procedures.
• Provides surgical assistance to faculty, residents, and dental students.
• Prepares patients for the procedure with proper monitors for sedation. Prepares surgical trays with instrumentation for basic extractions, IV extractions, biopsies, and implants. Sterilizes instruments.
• Reads and notates monitor readings from the procedure. Maintains awareness of emergency situations and responds according to departmental policy.
• Exposes and develops x-rays.
• Recovers patients from sedations. Gives prescriptions from the surgeon with dosage instruction and proper home care instructions.
• Cleans and sanitizes rooms after patient treatment.
• Completes paperwork for surgeries and sedations including anesthesia records, drug cards, and consent forms. Properly completes all paperwork from the procedure.
• Performs basic administrative office procedures such as chart management, seating and dismissing patients, etc.
• Continues dental surgical education by attending training sessions to learn concepts of sterile procedures, sterilization, radiology, dental record keeping, fire and safety procedures, OSHA regulations, nitrous oxide administration, and basic CPR.
• Performs various duties as needed to successfully fulfill the function of the position.

Attachment Requirements:

• Resume
• Cover Letter
• Current OMS Assistant (Preferred) / Dental Assistant License + Current Certifications

Job Requirements

Required Education: High School Diploma or GED AND:

• 12 months experience as a Dental Assistant.

Skills:

• Able to keep hand and arm steady while moving arm or while holding arm and hand in one position
• Able to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate or assemble very small objects
• Able to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine to exact positions
• Able to bend, stretch, twist and/or reach with your body, arms and/or legs
• Must possess good multi-limb coordination i.e. the ability to coordinate two or more limbs while sitting or standing
• Must possess good trunk strength i.e. the ability to use abdominal or lower back muscles to support part of the body continuously or repeatedly over time without giving out or fatiguing
• Able to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information
• Good manual dexterity required to enable safe, skillful use of instruments while working in the mouth

Certifications:

• Dental Assistant Certification or OMSDA with the Oklahoma Board of Dentistry
• Radiology
• Basic CPR

Working Conditions:

• Physical: Standing for long periods of time. Manual dexterity. Speaking, bending, and reaching.
• Environmental: Clinic Environment. Exposure to infectious diseases and radiation from x-ray.

Preferences: 6 months experience in Oral Surgery is preferred

Why You Belong at the University of Oklahoma: The University of Oklahoma values our community's unique talents, perspectives, and experiences. At OU, we aspire to harness our innovation, creativity, and collaboration for the advancement of people everywhere. You Belong Here!

Hiring contingent upon a Background Check?: Yes

Special Indications: None

Job Posting: Oct 2, 2025