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DENTAL ASSISTANT, School of Dental Medicine, Dental Health Center
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Position Number: 5655816
Location: Boston, MA
Position Type: Medicine - Dentistry

DENTAL ASSISTANT, School of Dental Medicine, Dental Health Center

Tracking Code: 23500091181031

Job Description
DENTAL ASSISTANT, School of Dental Medicine, Dental Health Center

Category
Boston University Medical Campus --> Clinical Services
Job Location
BOSTON, MA, United States
Tracking Code
23500091181031
Posted Date
11/17/2023
Salary Grade
Grade 45
Position Type
Full-Time/Regular

The Dental Assistant provides clinical support by assisting the dentist in various dental procedures, exposing radiographs, taking impressions, fabricating and cementing temporary crowns, ensuring optimal patient comfort, sterilizing instruments, practicing infection control and OSHA standards in the operatory prior, during and after said procedures. Ensures assigned operatories are cleaned and disinfected.

Additional responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Collect patient data be reviewing medical history, taking blood pressure and pulse, and charting clinical findings as directed by the dentist
Contacts patients as needed and reviews schedules for optimal utilizations
Reviews and enters treatment plans
Organizes lab cases by monitoring completion dates
Ensures each assigned operatory is set-up and ready prior to seeing each patient
Provides patient education by giving pre and post operative instructions including oral hygiene instructions
May be responsible for the ordering supplies as needed

Required Skills

We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, natural or protective hairstyle, religion, sex, age, national origin, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, military service, pregnancy or pregnancy-related condition, or because of marital, parental, or veteran status. We are a VEVRAA Federal Contractor.

Required Skills

Job Location: BOSTON, MA
Position Type: Full-Time/Regular
Salary Grade: Grade 45

To apply, visit https://jobs.silkroad.com/BU/External/jobs/313306