Job Description

Job Title: Dental Hygienist

Location: Oak Harbor, WA

We are seeking skilled Dental Assistants to join our healthcare team. The position requires customer service, critical thinking and problem solving, compassion, and teamwork.

The standard duties are as follows:

Requirements:

• Examine the patient’s oral cavity to include the mouth, throat, and pharynx, and record conditions of teeth and surrounding tissues. Refer patients to a dentist who have abnormalities to include cavities, defective fillings, suspicious growths, or periodontal disease.

• Apply desensitizing and other topical agents to treat abnormalities to include caries prevention, gingivitis, and oral ulceration.

• Instruct patients, individually and in groups, in proper oral hygiene care using materials to include teeth models, displays, slides, toothbrushes, dental floss, disclosing tablets, and mirrors.

• Demonstrate proper techniques of brushing, flossing, and the use of necessary periodontal aids. Explain the common causes of tooth decay and its relationship to the general diet.

• Take impressions and construct sports/safety mouth guards and soft night guards for vital bleaching.

• Polish restorations and apply pit and fissure sealants.

• Scaling, polishing, and periodontal charting of teeth and dental implants.

• Chairside dental assisting when directed by the Officer-in-Charge of the dental clinic.

• Check and maintain instruments to ensure working conditions. Clean, sharpen, and sterilize instruments.

• Patient Workload, Readiness, and Scheduling. Utilizes the Corporate Dental Application to enter patient-specific workload and readiness status, and also for patient scheduling.

Education:

Successful completion of a dental hygiene program accredited by the Commission on Dental Accreditation (CODA) of the American Dental Association (ADA and successfully passing the National Board Dental Hygiene Examination (NBDHE).

Degree Requirement: Associate's or bachelor’s degree, depending on the program.

License/Board Requirement: Current, full, active, and unrestricted license as a Dental Hygienist.

Certification Requirements:

• Certified in radiography.

• American Heart Association or American Red Cross Basic Life Support (BLS) Healthcare Provider Course.

• Two (2) years of clinical experience, which includes performing cleaning, taking impressions, instrument sterilization and preparation, and procedure assistance.

• Must be able to successfully pass National Agency Check with Inquiries (NACI) background investigation.

Preferred Qualification: Experience working with Veterans, Service Members, and Federal Employees.

Citizenship: Be a U.S. citizen.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: Commensurate with experience

Essential HealthCare Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer:

We are an Equal Employment/Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate in hiring based on sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. If you need reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact Human Resources and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.

Accommodation requests will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Please note that only inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to by Human Resources.

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