Dental Assistant
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About the Role
The role involves assisting dentists with patient care, sterilizing instruments, taking dental X-rays, and maintaining patient records while ensuring comfort and safety.
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Responsibilities
- Prepare patients for dental procedures
- Sterilize and arrange dental instruments
- Assist the dentist during treatments and surgeries
- Take and develop dental X rays (where permitted by law)
- Pass instruments and materials to the dentist
- Suction and maintain a clear operating field
- Provide patients with post treatment instructions
- Keep complete and accurate patient dental records
Requirements
- Dental nursing skills and knowledge
- Ability to sterilize and arrange dental instruments
- Knowledge of infection control and health & safety measures
- Ability to take and develop dental X rays (where permitted by law)
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Position Overview
- This position reports directly to the head of the department.
- The Dental Assistant supports the dentists in all aspects of patient care.
- This includes getting the appropriate instruments ready, take notes from dentists’ dictation for records, charting during examinations, preparing and mixing materials, providing support to patients during treatment, ensuring patient comfort and once the patient has left, the dental nurse tidies the
General Responsibilities
- Preparing patients for dental procedures.
- Sterilizing and arranging dental instruments.
- Assisting the dentist during treatments and surgeries.
- Taking and developing dental X rays (where permitted by law).
- Passing instruments and materials to the dentist.
- Suctioning and maintaining a clear operating field.
- Providing patients with post treatment instructions.
- Exercise good judgment and maintain confidentiality in maintaining critical and sensitive information, records, and reports.
Main Responsibilities
- To accomplish high quality dental nursing whilst assisting the dentists s/he has been appointed with, in a safe and effective manner in accordance with the ‘Code of Ethics’.
- To perform all reasonable efforts to establish patient privacy and safety, ensuring that they are comfortable and relaxed during dental consultation, treatment and procedures.
- To establish patient rapport, provide reassurance and perform measures to lessen patient anxiety if applicable.
- To ensure safe disposal of sharps and clinical waste.
- To establish and maintain productive working relationships with all members of the dental team.
- To ensure that the surgical areas and equipment are regularly cleaned, sterilized, organized and maintained.
- To keep complete and accurate patient dental records, correctly take and collate dental examination resources.
- To assist the Dentist to obtain written consent and/or signature from patient and/or their consent giver/s before performing dental procedures.
- To execute proper workflow on assigned Nursing tasks such as handling General Anesthesia cases, preparing dental reports, etc.
- To ensure the proper dental materials, equipment and consumables are well maintained, available and in good working condition.
- To maintain and increase competence in dental nursing skills by attending dental CMEs and getting involved in dental research studies.
- To liaise with the Department Assistant and/or Dental Nurse Supervisor on all matters concerning administration and service concerns and conditions.
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