Prosthodontics Dental Assistant

Job Summary

• Provides chair side assistance to dentist by passing instruments, holding devices such as suction tubes, and cleaning patients mouth during and after specialty dental and root canal procedures.
• Assists in administration of local anesthetic agent.
• Takes patients' blood pressure and maintain patients' vital statistics.
• Provides preoperative care to patients, prepare patients for surgery by positioning them comfortably and applying topical anesthetics, and provide post-operative care and instructions to patients.
• Instructs graduate students and pre-doctoral dental students on taking digital radiographs, cone beam radiographs and cone beam scans.
• Confirms that instruments are sterilized and working properly and organize them for procedures and/or surgery.
• Ensures that equipment used for dental procedures is sterilized and areas are clean and ready to receive new patients.
• Assists front office in scheduling follow up visits.