Dental Assistant needed in our privately owned dental office

Permanent Dental Assistant Job

Scottsdale, AZ

Job Description

Our outstanding dental practice is seeking an exceptional Dental Assistant for an opportunity to join our dedicated team.

Who We Are

We are a small, privately owned general dentistry practice. Our bread and butter is fillings, crowns, and bridges. We refer the majority of root canals and extractions out to a specialist. We LOVE our patients, and treat them like family, and have a close relationship with most of them. 

Who We're Looking For

We are looking for someone who is a critical thinker, can make a beautiful, yet functional temp for crowns and bridges (that'll stay on). We want someone who is comfortable removing temps, trying in crowns and bridges, and making the necessary adjustments for Dr. Martin to swoop in and seat. The ability to do good notes is a MUST. A great personality is important, to be able to hold conversations with patients, and get along with the long-term staff we have. This is a pretty low-key office; nothing we do here is "hard", we have a lot of fun together, and enjoy our work days. We do not believe in overbooking; quality over quantity is what we do.

Responsibilities:

• Sterilization area:

1. Fill Ultrasonic
2. Fill the statim with distilled water & run any leftover instruments
3. Put away clean instruments
4. stock all supplies

• Refill water bottles in Doctors Op’s
• Review schedule:
  1. Patient health history, i.e., any premeds, health concerns
  2. Treatment to be done today
  3. Check for needed x-rays or intraoral images, make a note to do if needed
  4. Check lab cases
  5. Issues or concerns per patient
• Stock rooms:

1. Bur blocks on Ops
2. Disposables
3. Composite, bond, etch
4. Impressions materials, impressions Trays
5. Cements
6. Barriers

Throughout the day

• Put away any supplies that come in during downtime
• Run sterilization

1. Ask the front to help if needed

• Check supplies, add tags to the order bucket, or write down on the order sheet
• Check the schedule routinely for any changes
• Give handoff to the front desk, clearly stating what was done for the patient and if there were any changes.
• Schedule seat appointment or tell front desk when they need to be scheduled back and what next step in treatment is.

End of Day

• Patient Notes
• Suction lines on Doctor Ops
• Empty trash in Ops and Sterilization
• Check the floors in ops
• Ultrasonic is drained, the lid is opened, and the basket is tilted to dry overnight
• Run statim
• Raise chairs up
• Turn off all dental units, TVs, bring the compressor in, turn off the vacuum, and lights

End of the week

• Calibrate Scanner
• Change Traps in all OPs
• Drain lines
• Run Test Strip through Statim and mail out for processing