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Dental Hygienist (PRN)

Carolinas Center for Oral & Facial Surgery

#Confidentiality #CPR #Inventory #Dental Hygienist #Equipment Maintenance #Infection Control #Patient Records #Sterilization #Oral Hygiene

Quick overview

The Dental Hygienist promotes dental health by performing prophylaxis, screenings, and radiographic studies while adhering to the Dental Practice Act. Key duties include preparing treatment rooms, educating patients on oral hygiene, and maintaining necessary equipment and supplies.

Requirements summary

The role requires performing detailed dental hygiene procedures such as cleaning deposits, detecting disease via screening and probing, and applying preventative agents like fluorides. The hygienist must also maintain patient confidentiality, adhere to infection control protocols, and keep CPR certification current.

Inventory ManagementCPR CertificationVital Signs RecordingEquipment MaintenancePatient EducationSterilizationInfection ControlMedical History DocumentationOral Hygiene InstructionPlaque ControlDental ProphylaxisOral Cancer ScreeningRadiographic StudiesCharting Conditions

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Job Description

Dental Hygienist Job Responsibilities

Promotes dental health by completing dental prophylaxis, providing oral cancer screening and radiographic studies, charting conditions of decay and disease, and performing procedures in compliance with the Dental Practice Act.
Prepares treatment room for patient by adhering to prescribed procedures and protocols.
Prepares patient for dental hygiene treatment by welcoming, soothing, seating, and draping patient.
Provides information to patients and employees by answering questions and requests.
Maintains instrumentation for dental hygiene treatment by sharpening, sterilizing, and selecting instruments.
Select materials and equipment for dental hygiene visit by evaluating patient’s oral health.
Completes dental prophylaxis by cleaning deposits and stains from teeth and from beneath gum margins.
Detect disease by completing oral cancer screening; feeling and visually examining gums, using probes to locate periodontal disease and to assess levels of recession and exposing and developing radiographic studies.
Arrests dental decay by applying fluorides and other cavity- preventing agents.
Maintains patient appearance and ability to masticate by fabricating temporary restorations, cleaning, and polishing removable appliances.
Helps dentist manage dental and medical emergencies by maintaining CPR certification, emergency drugs and oxygen supply, and directory of emergency numbers.
Educate patients by giving oral hygiene and plaque control instructions and postoperative instructions and providing reminders of time of next dental hygiene visit.
Documents dental hygiene services by recording vital signs and medical and dental histories and charting in patient records.
Maintains patient confidence and protects operations by keeping confidential information.
Maintains a safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations.
Protects patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols.
Ensures operation of dental equipment by completing preventive maintenance requirements, following manufacturer’s instructions, troubleshooting malfunctions, and calling for repairs, maintaining equipment inventories, and evaluating new equipment and techniques.