Job Title : Dental Assistant
Location : Brooklyn, NY 11213
Initial Duration 3+ months contract
Pay range : $35 / hour on W2
Shift : Morning
Note :
You can refer your friends or colleagues for this role or any other tech role, we do offer a referral bonus of $250.
Job Description :
- Chairside assistant of Dentist or Hygienist.
- Sets up operative areas and disinfects area, removes sharps from instruments, washes them and returns them to sterilizing center.
- Arranges for records to accompany patients to treatment area.
Responsibilities :
- Set up for the patient to include logging in patient name, pull charts and make notes under direction of attending doctor.
- Seat patient and drape patient, fix headrest, prepare tray and instruments.
- Check chart, ensure information is current and complete.
- Dismiss patient to include providing appointment card for next visit, collect charts for billing, and ensure completeness of chart.
- Please X-Rays back into mounting sleeve, write in the Client and WCs for the day.
- Clean instruments by washing all instruments after freeing them of debris and blood.
- Replace washed instruments into set-up tray or container and returns them for sterilization.
- Maintain equipment (at least once each week) removing debride and clean screen in suction hoses.
- Replace screws as required.
- Lavages suction hoses by running small amounts of bleach through them.
- Cleans and keeps dental laboratory orderly on an assigned rotational basis.
- Maintain inventory, keep area neat and organized.
- Sterilize area, bag and autoclave instruments.
- Develop radiographs, mounts and dates, identifies them, and places them in patient charts.
- Cleans and helps maintain darkroom and developing machine on an assigned basis.
- Performs other tasks as required.
5 days ago