Dental Assistant - Mississauga, Canada - Dr. Jitesh Datta Dentistry Professional Corporation
Dr. Jitesh Datta Dentistry Professional Corporation
Mississauga, Canada
Verified Company
1 week ago
Description
Work Term:
Permanent
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 40 hours per week
- Education: College, CEGEP or other nonuniversity certificate or diploma from a program of 1 year to 2 years
- Experience: 7 months to less than 1 year
Work setting:
- Dental practice
Tasks:
- Prepare patients for dental examinations
- Order dental and office supplies
- Prepare dental instruments and filling materials
- Perform reception and clerical duties
- Sterilize and maintain instruments and equipment
- Educate patients concerning oral hygiene
- Schedule and confirm appointments
- Perform intraoral duties
- Take and develop Xrays
- Record dental procedures performed on patients
- Invoice patients for dental services
- Fabricate and place temporary crowns and restorations
- Take preliminary impressions for diagnostic casts
- Prepare wax biteblocks and impression trays
- Prepare plaster models and moulds
- Polish and buff dentures
- Make orthodontic bands from metal and alloys
- Maintain and order supplies
- Finish metal framework of dentures
- Cast gold or metal alloys for bridges and denture bases
- Supervise students in training
- Design, fabricate or repair dental devices
- Mould wax over dentures setup
- Pack plastic material in moulds to form full or partial dentures
- Perform administrative functions for the dental laboratory
- Train and supervise other dental technicians or dental laboratory assistants
Supervision:
- 34 people
Computer and technology knowledge:
- MS Excel
- MS Outlook
- MS PowerPoint
- MS Windows
- MS Word
Work conditions and physical capabilities:
- Fastpaced environment
- Work under pressure
- Tight deadlines
- Repetitive tasks
- Physically demanding
- Manual dexterity
- Attention to detail
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Standing for extended periods
- Handeye coordination
- Sitting
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
Personal suitability:
- Accurate
- Client focus
- Dependability
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Excellent oral communication
- Excellent written communication
- Initiative
- Interpersonal awareness
- Judgement
- Reliability
- Team player
- Flexibility
