Registered Dental Assistant

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The Registered Dental Assistant (RDA) will assist a provider (dentist or hygienist) chairside, pass instruments, maintain operatories, patient record keeping, take/develop radiographs, sterilize instruments, and perform expanded duties outlined in the Administrative Rules of the Michigan Board of Dentistry.

• Assemble forms for providers, take detailed medical histories, chart patient's dental status as indicated, enter information and appropriate progress notes in electronic record.
• Provide effective parent and patient communication of MCHC policy/procedures, answering questions regarding indicated treatment and clarifying issues of consent.
• Perform all routine chairside dental assisting procedures; instrument/material set-up, four-handed instrument passing technique, aspiration, and irrigation of oral field, mixing cements, bases, filling materials and taking impressions.
• Perform expanded duties as outlined in current Board of Dentistry – General Rules.
• Assist provider (dentist or hygienist) by applying appropriate behavior management methods to make children more comfortable and cooperative during their dental visit.
• Perform infection control procedures according to the department's universal precautions plan. Maintain a sterile field for all patient procedures by proper instrument sterilization and disinfection techniques.
• Maintain assigned operatories including restocking supplies, organization of materials, instruments, records, and general cleanliness.
• Perform various laboratory procedures including pouring of impressions with orthodontic bands fixed as appropriate, trimming stone models, repair of acrylic appliances and preparing cases to be sent to commercial laboratories.
• Take intraoral and extraoral (including panoramic and cephalometric films) radiographs.
• Complete job rotations in the hygiene area, sterilization area, laboratory and radiography area as assigned.
• Assist dentist with sedation cases in the operatory using monitoring system with nitrous oxide.
• Assist dentist with complete dental rehabilitation under general anesthesia in the operating room at Hurley Medical Center. This includes set-up, assisting, clean-up, using portable x-ray equipment, keeping surgery cart clean and stocked, and arriving earlier than the normal work reporting period at the hospital.
• Assist with specialty procedures in orthodontics, endodontics, periodontics, prosthodontics, hygiene, and oral surgery in some patient cases.

• Perform clerical duties as needed; answering telephone, simple typing, phone skills, maintaining recall system for hygiene and orthodontics, and preparing reports as needed.
• Participate in off-site screenings and health fairs.
• Other job-related duties as assigned.

• Must have active RDA license issued by the State of Michigan.
• Successful completion of a CODA-accredited dental radiography course or substantially equivalent required.
• Current CPR certification required.
• Two years post-education dental assisting experience preferred.
• Pediatric experience preferred.
• Working knowledge of EDR required, Dentrix experience preferred.
• Basic computer skills required in:
  Microsoft Word, Outlook and digital…