Job Title or Location

Preventive dental assistant

Nursing & Homemakers Inc.

Mississauga, ON

Job Details:

$26.00 - $30.00 / hour
Full-time
Experienced

Overview
  • Job Duration: Permanent
  • Language of Work: English
  • Hours of Work: 35 to 37 hours per week
  • Education:
  • Experience:
  • Education
  • College/CEGEP
  • Work setting
  • Dental practice
  • Tasks
  • Prepare patients for dental examinations
  • Prepare plaster models and moulds
  • Supervise dental assistants in their health care functions
  • Train other dental laboratory assistants
  • Cast gold or metal alloys for bridges and denture bases
  • Order dental and office supplies
  • Perform administrative functions for the dental laboratory
  • Prepare dental instruments and filling materials
  • Maintain and order supplies
  • Mould wax over dentures set-up
  • Perform reception and clerical duties
  • Educate patients concerning oral hygiene
  • Finish metal framework of dentures
  • Supervise students in training
  • Polish teeth and clinical crowns and apply fluoride and sealant
  • Prepare wax bite-blocks and impression trays
  • Schedule and confirm appointments
  • Pack plastic material in moulds to form full or partial dentures
  • Perform intra-oral duties
  • Take and develop X-rays
  • Make orthodontic bands from metal and alloys
  • Record dental procedures performed on patients
  • Invoice patients for dental services
  • Polish and buff dentures
  • Fabricate and place temporary crowns and restorations
  • Take preliminary impressions for diagnostic casts
  • Supervision
  • 1 to 2 people
  • Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses
  • Certification by the National Dental Assisting Examining Board
  • Technical expertise (dental)
  • Polishing
  • Computer and technology knowledge
  • MS Excel
  • MS Word
  • Security and safety
  • Bondable
  • Work conditions and physical capabilities
  • Fast-paced environment
  • Work under pressure
  • Tight deadlines
  • Repetitive tasks
  • Physically demanding
  • Manual dexterity
  • Attention to detail
  • Ability to distinguish between colours
  • Sitting
  • Combination of sitting, standing, walking
  • Standing for extended periods
  • Bending, crouching, kneeling
  • Hand-eye co-ordination
  • Large workload
  • Personal suitability
  • Client focus
  • Efficient interpersonal skills
  • Flexibility
  • Judgement
  • Team player
  • Accurate
  • Dependability
  • Excellent oral communication
  • Excellent written communication
  • Initiative
  • Interpersonal awareness
  • Reliability
  • Employment terms options
  • Evening
  • Experience
  • 1 year to less than 2 years
  • Employment terms options
  • Day
  • Other benefits
  • Free parking available
  • Support for persons with disabilities
  • Provides physical accessibility accommodations (for example: ramps, elevators, etc.)
  • Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for persons with disabilities
  • Applies accessible and inclusive recruitment policies that accommodate persons with disabilities