Dental Assistant

SUMMARY:

We are currently seeking a Dental Assistant to join our team. This full-time role will work day shift, no weekends.

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