Dental Assistant

Company: Elevate Dental Partners
Location: Kent
Posted on: November 13, 2024

Job Description:

We are looking for an Registered Dental Assistant to join our team! We're committed to providing modern, conservative care to all our patients, while making them feel like they're right at home. Our team makes our patients feel confident in their smiles while creating lasting, meaningful relationships along the way.

Responsibilities:
--- Ensure patients comfort during procedures
--- Preparing operatories for treatment
--- Sterilizing instruments
--- Directly assist dentist during procedures using four handed dentistry technique
--- Take x-rays and intraoral photos
--- Accurately and efficiently treatment plan based on doctor's diagnosis
--- Scheduling patients
--- Providing patient education and post-operative instruction
--- Dental charting and coding
--- Ensure compliance with infection control protocols
--- Perform lab duties such as pouring models, taking impressions, and fabricating temporary crowns
--- Administrative tasks such as answering phones, calling labs, and patient follow-up calls
--- Stock supplies and maintain equipment
--- Accurately document and maintain Patient Health Information
--- Collaboration with team-members
--- Ordering supplies and maintaining budgets
--- Place temporary and permanent restorations in teeth and shape to proper contour
--- *Removes sutures and places rubber dams as directed by dentist
--- *Place Sealants
--- *Fluoride Application
--- *Coronal Polishing
--- *Take final impressions

Qualifications:
--- High School Diploma or equivalent
--- CPR/BLS certification required
--- Completion of an accredited dental assisting program preferred
--- DANB Certification required for Washington State
--- EFDA License required for Washington State
--- EDDA Certification required (minimum of one year experience without certification required for Colorado)
--- Radiology Certification required
--- *School Sealant Program completion
--- Knowledge of dental terminology, procedures, and instruments
--- Proficiency in dental patient management software such as Open Dental
--- Knowledge of prosthodontics for restorations
--- Experience working with Clear Aligners such as Invisalign is a plus
--- Strong teamwork and communication skills
--- Ability to multi-task
--- Attention to detail
--- Adaptability


Benefits - Beyond working with an amazing team
--- Medical with company paid contribution
--- Dental
--- Vision
--- Company paid Basic Life
--- Ancillary benefits
--- Supplemental Life and AD&D Insurance
--- Critical Illness
--- Short-Term Disability
--- Long-Term Disability
--- Accident
--- Competitive 401K - up to 4% match

About Company:
Elevate Dental Partners is committed to providing partner dentists and their teams with the highest quality of life as they provide the highest quality care for their patients. Our goal is to empower our dentists to succeed by providing services and a collaborative network of professionals.

You will embody the mission, vision, and values of Elevate Dental. We exist to serve our practices and patients, not the other way around. We look for ways to improve and partner together to collaborate and bring the best solutions to the table.

Elevate Dental provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or location laws.

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