Princess Dental Staffing

Dental Hygienist needed in our dental office

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Permanent Dental Hygienist Job

Glendale, AZ

Compensation

45-50

Work Days

Mon, Tue, Wed, and Thu

Experience Required

at least 1 year

Certifications Needed

Local Anesthesia Certified, Nitrous Oxide Analgesia Certified, Registered Dental Hygienist

Software Experience

Eaglesoft

Job Description

About us

AZ Family Dental is a small private dental group in Phoenix, AZ. We strive to offer the best dental care, utilizing the most advanced technologies, in a warm and welcoming environment. We also strive to create a great environment for our teammates where they can accomplish their professional aspirations.

As a Dental Hygienist at AZ Family Dental, you’ll be responsible for working hand-and-hand with doctors for ongoing care and preventative oral health of patients. At AZ Family Dental we strive to offer the best dental care, utilizing the most advanced technologies, in a warm and welcoming environment. As such, it is an expectation that employees create substantive relationships with patients by getting to know them and taking a genuine interest in each patient’s lives as well as a commitment to learning and personal development. In all that we do at AZ Family Dental, we strive for excellence, and the employees we hire play the most important role in accomplishing both operational and clinical excellence, so we only hire the best. We expect kindness and empathy, consistent effort, reliability, and a selfless service to patients and teammates, as well as being a great clinician. If you feel you’re exceptional, please apply.

Job Responsibilities:

Promotes dental health by completing dental prophylaxis, providing oral cancer screening and radiographic studies, charting conditions of decay and disease, and performing procedures in compliance with the Dental Practice Act.
Prepares a treatment room for patients by adhering to prescribed procedures and protocols.
Prepares patients for dental hygiene treatment by welcoming, soothing, seating, and draping patients.
Provides information to patients and employees by answering questions and requests.
Maintains instrumentation for dental hygiene treatment by sharpening, sterilizing, and selecting instruments.
Selects materials and equipment for dental hygiene visit by evaluating patient’s oral health.
Completes dental prophylaxis by cleaning deposits and stains from teeth and from beneath gum margins.
Detects disease by completing oral cancer screening; feeling and visually examining gums, using probes to locate periodontal disease and to assess levels of recession and exposing and developing radiographic studies.
Arrests dental decay by applying fluorides and other cavity- preventing agents.
Helps dentist manage dental and medical emergencies by maintaining CPR certification, emergency drugs and oxygen supply, and directory of emergency numbers.
Educates patients by giving oral hygiene and plaque control instructions and postoperative instructions and providing reminders of time of next dental hygiene visit.
Documents dental hygiene services by recording vital signs and medical and dental histories and charting in patient records.
Maintains patient confidence and protects operations by keeping information confidential.
Maintains safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations.
Protects patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols.
Ensures operation of dental equipment by completing preventive maintenance requirements, following manufacturer’s instructions, troubleshooting malfunctions, and calling for repairs, maintaining equipment inventories, and evaluating new equipment and techniques.
Conserves dental resources by using equipment and supplies as needed to accomplish job results.