Dental Receptionist / Front Desk in Lawndale, CA

Permanent Dental Receptionist / Front Desk Job

Lawndale, CA

Job Description

• Oversees the daily schedule and operations of the clinic, sup-porting patient care for both the Dental Assisting and Dental Hy-giene Programs; coordinates the assignments of patients; tracks and facilitates patients appointments. • Audits patient charts ensure timely, consistent, accurate, and complete information; tracks patient care outcomes and corre-sponds with patients for completion of treatments • Answer incoming calls and provide superior patient relations • Interacts daily with dentist/hygienist notating treatment options • Performs supply, equipment and inventory control and purchas-ing to ensure optimal clinic effectiveness and monitors budget • Act as liaison between clinical providers and the front office re-garding individual patient needs • Assist the Dentist during a variety of examinations and treatment procedures such as instrument transfer, dental procedure isola-tion techniques and preparation of dental materials • Prepare treatment rooms, instruments and cassettes for proce-dure • Exposes and processes dental radiographs (x-rays) • Records medical and dental history and vital signs of patients • Records visit information in the electronic patient record system (DentiMax) • Pours, trims and polishes study casts; fabricates custom impres-sion trays from preliminary impressions; cleans and polishes re-movable appliances and fabricates temporary restorations • Takes impressions of patients’ teeth for study casts (model of teeth) • Serves as an infection control officers, follows infection control protocols and sterilizes and disinfects instruments and equip-ment • Helps patients feel comfortable before, during and after dental treatment • Provides patients with instructions for oral care following surgery or other dental treatment procedures, such as placement of a restoration (filling) • Assist patients with referrals and follow up appointments • Perform duties as requested