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Minnesota Visiting Nurse Agency Dental Assistant in Minneapolis, Minnesota
_SUMMARY:_ __ We are currently seeking a Dental Assistant to join ourteam. Thisfull-timerole will workon-site. Purpose of this position: *Under immediate supervision, performs work involving routine dental procedures. /A *$2500 hiring incentive is available for eligible external candidates (current employees, contract/temporary workers, and former employees returning to HHS within one year are ineligible)./
/Current List of non-MN States where Hennepin Healthcare is an Eligible Employer: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Washington, Colorado and Wisconsin./
_RESPONSIBILITIES:_
- Reviews patient chart and prepares instruments and equipment
- Performs procedures such as mixing impression material, taking impressions, pouring models, preparing base plates, preparing acrylic trays and bleaching trays
- Performs mechanical polishings
- Performs fluoride treatments
- Places rubber dam
- Removes sutures or excess cement from inlays, crowns and bridges
- Charts patient treatment received
- Provides dental hygiene instruction
- Performs x-ray procedures and develops film
- Provides dental chair assistance during oral surgical procedures, operating suction equipment, arranging lighting, sponging operative area and supplying instruments and materials
- Schedules patient appointments
- Cleans and maintains equipment and work area
- Sterilizes and wraps instruments
- Orders supplies
- Prepares and maintains records
- Administer and monitor nitrous oxide. To administer, dental assistant must have completed a course on Nitrous Oxide administration
- Re-cement intact temporary restorations and place temporary fillings (not including temporization of inlays, onlays, crowns, and bridges) to promote palliative treatment
- Etch appropriate enamel surfaces, apply and adjust pit and fissure sealants. Dental Assistant must have completed course on Sealant placement
- Perform restorative procedures limited to placing, contouring, and adjusting amalgam restorations, glass ionomers, and supragingival composite restorations (class I & V) and adapting and cementing stainless steel crowns. To perform Dental Assistant must have completed Restorative Expanded Functions training
- Place and remove matrix bands
- Fabricate, cement, and adjust temporary restorations extraorally or intraorally
- Remove temporary restorations with hand instruments only
- Perform mechanical polishing to clinical crowns not including instrumental
- Apply topical mediations such as, but not limited to, topical fluoride, bleaching agents, and cavity varnishes in appropriate dosages or quantities as prescribed by a dentist
- Take impressions for cast and appropriate bite
- Dry root canals with paper points
- Place cotton pellets and temporary restorative materials into endodontic openings
- Performs related work as required, but only after appropriate training
_QUALIFICATIONS:_ /Minimum Qualifications:/
- Completion of an accredited dental assisting program
- Current license as a Dental Assistant through the State of Minnesota Board of Dentistry, or must pass the Minnesota Licensure Examination within 90 days of employment
- Basic Life Support
/License/Certifications:/
- Current license as a Dental Assistant through the State of Minnesota Board of Dentistry, or must pass the Minnesota Licensure Examination within 6 month of employment.
- Dental Assistant must have completed a course on nitrous oxide inhalation analgesia
Title: Dental Assistant
Location: MN-Minneapolis-Downtown Campus
Requisition ID: 240946