Dental Hygienist

Northside Dental Company is looking to bring on a full time dental hygienist! Our team is radically passionate about patient care and each patient experience in our office. We look to create a positive, inviting, and well-run office, utilizing the latest technology, products, and knowledge, for an experience that surpasses patients' expectations.

Dental Hygienist Job Responsibilities:

• Promotes dental health by completing dental prophylaxis, providing oral cancer screening and radiographic studies, charting conditions of decay and disease, and performing procedures in compliance with the Dental Practice Act.
• Prepares treatment room for patient by adhering to prescribed procedures and protocols.
• Prepares patient for dental hygiene treatment by welcoming, soothing, seating, and draping patient.
• Documents dental hygiene services by recording vital signs and medical and dental histories and charting in patient records.
• Provides information to patients and employees by answering questions and requests.
• Uses proper technique to take bitewing, periapical, panoramic and CBCT radiograph images.
• Maintains instrumentation for dental hygiene treatment by sharpening, sterilizing, and selecting instruments.
• Selects materials and equipment for dental hygiene visit by evaluating patient’s oral health.
• Completes dental prophylaxis by cleaning deposits and stains from teeth and from beneath gum margins.
• Detects disease by completing oral cancer screening; feeling and visually examining gums, using probes to locate periodontal disease and to assess levels of recession and exposing and developing radiographic studies.
• Arrests dental decay by applying fluorides and other cavity- preventing agents.
• Communicates effectively with the dentist and front desk about chief complaints, treatment needed and next appointments needed.
• Maintains patient appearance and ability to masticate by cleaning and polishing removable appliances.
• Educates patients by giving oral hygiene and plaque control instructions and postoperative instructions and providing reminders of time of next dental hygiene visit.
• Maintains patient confidence and protects operations by keeping information confidential.
• Maintains safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations.
• Ensures operation of dental equipment by completing preventive maintenance requirements, following manufacturer’s instructions, troubleshooting malfunctions, maintaining equipment inventories, and evaluating new equipment and techniques.
• Maintains dental supplies inventory by checking stock to determine inventory level, anticipating needed supplies, communicating needs to the Ordering Lead.
• Conserves dental resources by using equipment and supplies as needed to accomplish job results.

Dental Hygienist Qualifications / Skills:

• Dental health maintenance
• Infection control
• Health promotion and education
• Positive bedside manner
• Creating a safe, effective environment
• Teamwork
• Thoroughness
• Nomad x-ray experience preferred
• Open Dental software preferred

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Bonus pay

Experience & Licensing Requirements: 

• Virginia Dental Hygienist license required
• 1+ years in a dental office preferred