Dental Assistant

Summary

• Come join a company that strives for Extraordinary People and Exceptional Performance!
• Chenega Government Mission Solutions, LLC, a Chenega Professional Services’ company, is looking for Dental Assistants in support of Pawnee Indian Health Center.
• This is a full-time, Monday-Friday; 8:00 am-4:30 pm position.
• Work week will not exceed 40 hours per week.
• No Federal holidays are required.
• Our company offers employees the opportunity to join a team where there is a robust employee benefits program, management engagement, quality leadership, an atmosphere of teamwork, recognition for performance, and promotion opportunities.
• We actively strive to channel our highly engaged employee’s knowledge, critical thinking, innovative solutions for our clients.

Responsibilities

• Obtain and record vital signs and screening data in electronic dental and health records.
• Triage emergency dental patients.
• Take both intraoral and extraoral (panoramic) digital radiographs.
• Obtain diagnostic quality images taking appropriate additional exposures as needed.
• Chair side assistant, primarily assisting in general dentistry.
• Assist as needed in more complex specialized dental procedures such as oral surgery, prosthetics, operative, endodontics, periodontics and pedodontics.
• Prepare dental instruments and materials prior to procedures.
• Evacuate blood and secretions from oral cavity during procedures.
• Transfer instruments to provider during dental procedures.
• Clean and transport soiled instruments at the end of the procedure.
• Perform proper pre-sterilization cleaning, packaging of instruments and sterilization.
• Complete routine equipment and operatory maintenance.
• Clean operatory and work surfaces between patients.
• Provides routine rubber cup and prophylaxis and applies topical fluoride treatment as assigned by the dentist.
• Relays to patient’s post-operative instructions, disease prevention techniques, and home care instructions.
• Places pit and fissure sealants as prescribed by the dentist.