Princess Dental Staffing

Dental Hygienist needed in our dental office

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Permanent Dental Hygienist Job
San Mateo, CA
Compensation
TBD
Work Days
Mon, Tue, Thu, and Fri
Experience Required
at least 1 year
Software Experience
Dentrix
Job Description
Job Purpose
We are looking to bring on an additional hygienist to join us part time with the option of becoming a full time member to our practice!

Registered dental hygienists are assigned duties and responsibilities that involve licensed professional work in providing dental hygiene services. A registered dental hygienist implements appropriate standard of care therapy, assists a dentist in providing hygiene, periodontal or dental care and treatment, provides dental hygiene assessments, treatment planning with a dentist, and conducts oral and overall health care education and instruction to patients.

Duties and Responsibilities
-Assess patients' teeth, bone, and periodontal tissues indicating the presence of any abnormalities or suspected diseases or conditions.

-Make recommendations as to patients' recare interval and follow-up needs and ensure 100% of patients are scheduled for such appointment.

-Follow all patient process and systems within the office to create consistency and reduce the number of patients with unscheduled, recare appointments.

-Take ownership of the hygiene schedule by proactively calling patients for the following but not limited to: confirmation calls, overdue scheduling, care calls, quick calls.

-Must be able or willing to learn how to scan with iTero

-Co-diagnose with dentist to develop appropriate periodontal treatment plans.

-Bring to the immediate attention of the dentist any suspected caries, fractures, lesions or other oral conditions in the mouth or on the teeth.

-Thoroughly remove soft and hard deposits and extrinsic stain from teeth, using hand instruments, ultrasonic cavitron inserts and prophy hand pieces.

-Instruct patients how to practice good oral hygiene; make recommendations as to appropriate products or devices for home care; provide other health care education, as necessary.

-Perform full mouth debridement; either as a first stage gingivitis therapy or to remove interfering calculus to further enable a more accurate diagnosis and treatment plan.

-Perform root planning as a periodontal therapy.

-Place locally administered antibiotics as supportive periodontal therapy.

-Implement irrigation and desensitizing procedures as adjunctive to periodontal therapy.

-Take digital xrays, intra oral pictures

-Apply cavity-preventive agents, such as fluoride varnish.

-Support restorative work by making and cementing temporary crowns, removing sutures.

-Monitor nitrous analgesia once dentist has administered (Under Direct Supervision of dentist present in facility- hygienist must have a board-approved certification to monitor nitrous analgesia).

-Scans for Invisalign 

-Application of bleaching agents and activation with non-laser light.

-Use lasers with inability to ablate tissue to perform dental hygiene duties which are within scope of practice. This includes sulcular debridement utilizing a non-initiated laser tip. (Under General Supervision of dentist- hygienist must have completed training to perform treatment).

-Set up and clean up hygiene room

-All other duties and responsibilities as assigned and allowed under applicable state laws and regulations.

Qualifications
-Dental hygienists must be licensed and in good standing with State of California.

-Associates or Bachelor's degree in dental hygiene.

-Current Basic Life Support (BLS) and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) certificate.

-Dental hygienists must be willing to partner with dentist, work well as part of the total dental team and should have good eye sight and manual dexterity, because they use dental instruments within a patient's mouth, with little room for error.

-Must know Dentrix and Dexis software

If interested, please send over a document ATTACHMENT with your resume.

Job Type: Part-time

Posted over 2 years ago
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