Dentist

As a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) HealthWorks welcomes everyone into a health care home with exceptional, comprehensive, patient centered care. With caring providers, convenient hours and outreach services, HealthWorks strives to be your family's doctor for life and a community health resource.

Established in 2005, HealthWorks has been committed to providing a medical home to patients, where medical, dental, behavioral health services and pharmacists work together in a team-based system of care. We strive to improve the quality of our patient’s lives who would otherwise have limited access to health care.

The Dentist will be directly involved in the assessment, management and appropriate intervention of those patients requiring dental services. Initiating diagnosis and treatment of oral diseases, injuries, and malformations of teeth and gums and related oral structures. May treat diseases of nerve, pulp, and other dental tissues affecting vitality of teeth. To further the focus of HealthWorks’ mission as a patient-centered medical home the dentist will support the patient’s optimal functioning and improve collaborative coordination of care by engaging the resources and expertise of staff care managers and community resources.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

Patient Care:

1. Provide appropriate and optimal service to all patients including but not limited to:

• Recording patient histories
• Performing examinations of teeth, gums and related tissues
• Ordering and interpreting x-rays and other tests
• Assessing and creating patient-specific treatment plans

2. Guide and support identified patients in managing their preventive dental care and chronic conditions.

3. Ensure patients understanding of their condition, treatment, encountered results and commitment to their management plan.

4. Track symptoms that are being followed, work ups underway, or high-risk areas of patient(s) family or medical history.

5. Administer anesthetics to limit the amount of discomfort experienced by patients during procedures.

6. Diagnose diseases or abnormalities, and plan appropriate treatments.

7. Design, make, and fit prosthodontic appliances such as space maintainers, bridges, and dentures, or write fabrication instructions or prescriptions for denturists and dental technicians.

8. Fill pulp chamber and canal with endodontic materials.

9. Write prescriptions for antibiotics and other medications.

10. Treat exposure of pulp by pulp capping, removal of pulp from pulp chamber, or root canal, using dental instruments.

11. Produce and evaluate dental health educational materials.

12. Plan, organize and maintain dental health programs.

JOB REQUIREMENTS / EXPERIENCE

Education: Dental degree from an accredited university

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Diagnostic procedures including initial and periodic oral examinations and pulp vitality tests.
• Radiographic procedures including intraoral, bitewing and panoramic films.
• Preventative procedures including prophylaxis for adults and children, nutritional counseling for the control of dental disease and oral hygiene instruction.
• Restorative procedures including both amalgam and resin restorations as well as crown repair.
• Oral surgery procedures including simple extractions and root removal, surgical extractions and removal of impacted teeth and residual roots as well as removal of erupted teeth and bone and/or section of tooth, tooth implantation and re-implantation, surgical exposure of impacted or un-erupted teeth to aid eruption, biopsies of hard and soft oral tissue.
• Surgical Incisions including incision and draining of abscesses, removal of reactions and foreign bodies, and sequestrectomy for osteomyelitis
• Repair of traumatic wounds including suturing of small recent and complicated wounds.
• Adjunctive general services including anesthesia with regional block anesthesia or analgesia.

Experience: Prefer at least one year of experience as a dentist in a clinical situation, or other accepted related experience as appropriate. Prior Patient-Centered Medical Home or Federally Qualified Health Care experience is preferred.

Licenses/Certifications: Maintains in satisfactory condition, licensure and continuing education as outlined by the Wyoming State Dental Board (DDS/DMD); maintains CPR certification.

• Covid-19 vaccination is a condition of employment. Proof of vaccination by a third party must be provided to HealthWorks by the date of hire. Per HealthWorks policy, requests for medical or religious belief exemptions may be submitted for consideration and approval.