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Dental assistant
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- Durée de l'emploi: Permanent
- Langue de travail: Anglais
- Heures de travail: 30 hours per week
- Education:
- Expérience:
Education
- Bachelor's degree
- or equivalent experience
Work setting
- Dental practice
Tasks
- Prepare patients for dental examinations
- Prepare plaster models and moulds
- Order dental and office supplies
- Perform administrative functions for the dental laboratory
- Prepare dental instruments and filling materials
- Maintain and order supplies
- Perform reception and clerical duties
- Sterilize and maintain instruments and equipment
- Educate patients concerning oral hygiene
- Schedule and confirm appointments
- Perform intra-oral duties
- Take and develop X-rays
- Record dental procedures performed on patients
- Invoice patients for dental services
- Take preliminary impressions for diagnostic casts
Supervision
- 1 to 2 people
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses
- Healing arts radiation protection (HARP) Certification
- Certification by the National Dental Assisting Examining Board
Technical expertise (dental)
- Plastering
- Polishing
Computer and technology knowledge
- MS Excel
- MS Outlook
- MS PowerPoint
- MS Windows
- MS Word
Equipment, eystems and controls experience
- Medical and biomedical equipment and systems
Area of specialization
- Full dentures
- Crowns and bridges
- Ceramic or porcelain application
- Chrome castings
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Tight deadlines
- Repetitive tasks
- Physically demanding
- Manual dexterity
- Attention to detail
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Sitting
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Standing for extended periods
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Large workload
Personal suitability
- Client focus
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Flexibility
- Judgement
- Team player
- Accurate
- Dependability
- Excellent oral communication
- Excellent written communication
- Initiative
- Interpersonal awareness
- Reliability
Employment terms options
- Early morning
- Evening
Experience
- 1 year to less than 2 years
Employment terms options
- Shift
- Morning
- On call
- Day
- Weekend