Preventive Dental Assistant - North York, Canada - Nursing & Homemakers Inc.
Description
Work Term:
Permanent
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 35 to 36 hours per week
- Education: College/CEGEP
- Experience: 1 year to less than 2 years
Work setting:
- Dental practice
Tasks:
- Prepare patients for dental examinations
- Train and supervise other dental technicians or dental laboratory assistants
- 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
- Prepare wax biteblocks and impression trays
- Schedule and confirm appointments
- Pack plastic material in moulds to form full or partial dentures
- Perform intraoral duties
- Take and develop Xrays
- Record dental procedures performed on patients
- Invoice patients for dental services
- Polish and buff dentures
- Take preliminary impressions for diagnostic casts
Supervision:
- 1 to 2 people
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses:
- Certification by the National Dental Assisting Examining Board
Technical expertise (dental):
- Polishing
Computer and technology knowledge:
- MS Excel
- MS Word
Security and safety:
- Bondable
Work conditions and physical capabilities:
- Fastpaced 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
- Handeye coordination
- 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
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