Job Brief
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Job Description
- ● Welcome customers in the dental office
- ● Prepare customers for treatments or checkups ensuring their comfort
- ● Select and set up instruments, equipment and material needed
- ● Sterilize instruments according to regulations
- ● Assist the dentist through 4-handed dentistry
- ● Undertake lab tasks as instructed
- ● Provide oral hygiene and post-operative care instructions
- ● Keep the dental room clean and well-stocked
- ● Schedule appointments
- ● Maintain accurate patient records and assist with payment procedures
Job Requirements
- ● Proven experience as dental assistant
- ● Knowledge of dental instruments and sterilization methods
- ● Understanding of health & safety regulations
- ● Ability to perform regulated non-surgical tasks like coronal polishing is a plus
- ● Good computer skills
- ● Excellent communication and people skills
- ● Attention to detail
- ● Well-organized and reliable
- ● High school diploma; graduating from dental assistant school is preferred
- ● Additional certification or training is an asset (e.g. EFDA)