241242 - University of Oklahoma
Oklahoma City, OK
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Come join the staff at OU HSC and become a part of Oklahoma's premier research university which leads the state in education and career opportunities. This position perform chair-side dental assisting in a dental pediatric resident clinic.
Duties:
- Provides chair side dental assistance, prepares and sterilizes equipment.
- Document patient care.
- Takes and develops dental radiographs (x-rays).
- May provide administrative assistance.
- Assists the dentist during a variety of treatment procedures to include but not limited to placement of bases and liners and placement and removal of rubber dams, insertion, finishing, and removal of temporary restorations.
- Prepares set-up trays for anesthetic, operative, prosthetic, periodontal, prophylactic, endodontic, and orthodontic dentistry.
- Prepares dental equipment and materials for treatment.
- Performs patient charting as instructed by the dentist.
- Follows infection control protocol and prepares and sterilizes instruments and equipment.
- Greets patient and gets them situated in the treatment room.
- Provides patients with instructions for oral care following surgery or other dental treatment procedures.
- Takes impressions of patient's teeth for study casts (models of teeth).
- May perform office management tasks that often require the use of a personal computer.
- Schedules appointments, answers phones, data entry, and orders supplies.
- Performs various duties as needed to successfully fulfill the functions of the position.
Source : University of Oklahoma