SUMMARY:
We are currently seeking a Dental Assistant to join ourteam. Thisfull-timerole will workon-site.
Purpose of this position: Under immediate supervision, performs 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).//Current List of non-MN States where Hennepin Healthcare is an Eligible Employer: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Washington, Colorado and Wisconsin./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: 240946