Registered Dental Hygienist; Per Diem; Blackstone CHC

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Full Time Regular Fresno, CA, US 1 Attachments

2 days ago Requisition

Salary Range: $42.00 To $54.48 Hourly

Clinica Sierra Vista is excited to be one of the largest Federally Qualified Health Centers in the Nation! We’re honored to serve the men and women of the fields. We also offer care and support to the inner city, the rural and isolated, those of low, moderate, and fixed incomes, and families from an array of cultural backgrounds who speak several languages.

We don’t inquire about immigration status because we simply don’t need to know. If you come to us, we will treat you like any other patient.

As we grow our team, we are looking for individuals who believe the patient is always #1.

Why work for us?

• Competitive pay which matches your abilities and experience
• Health coverage for you and your family
• Generous number of vacation days per year
• A robust wellness plan and health club discounts
• Continuing education assistance to grow and further your talents
• 403(B) plan with company matching

We're looking for someone to join our team as a Dental Hygienist
who acts as an auxiliary to the Dentist, is a licensed professional oral health educator and clinical operator who use scientific methods for the control and prevention of oral diseases to aid patients in attaining and maintaining optimum oral health.

The practice of dental hygiene includes dental hygiene assessment and development planning and implementation of a dental hygiene care plan. It also includes oral health education, counseling, and health screening

The Dental Hygienist uses dental hygiene care to denote all integrated preventive services administered to the patient. An objective in planning dental hygiene care is to insure the best possible sequence of procedures, which will contribute to restoration of the patient’s oral health in the shortest possible time and pave the way to the long-range preventive program that will continue throughout the patient’s lifetime.

To achieve the goals of planned care, the Dental Hygienist must see hygiene procedures as part of the total plan for the continuity of the corrective and maintenance phases of an effective preventive dentistry program.

Essential Functions :

• Take radiographic survey as needed.
• Give preliminary oral examination as necessary to chart visually identifiable decay, restorations, and oral abnormalities.

2. Therapy. Oral prophylaxis will include manual and mechanical instrumentation (piezon or cavitron), removal of all deposits on teeth (stains, plaque, and calculus) as well as root planning procedures and topical fluoride application.

3. Recall. The Dental Hygienist is responsible for the implementation of an effective recall system necessary for the monitoring of patient performance over a period of time. It should be recognized that an efficient recall system is one of the key ingredients to an effective preventive program.

4. Patient Education. The Dental Hygienist will be responsible for ensuring that patients receive necessary educational counseling of preventive dentistry. Such counseling will include motivation, plaque control, proper diet and nutrition, tobacco cessation, etc.

Required Skills:

• Administer local anesthesia (Under Direct Supervision of dentist present in facility – hygienist must have evidence of satisfactory completion of a board-approved course to administer).
• Administer nitrous analgesia (Under Direct Supervision of dentist present in facility – hygienist must have evidence of satisfactory completion of a board-approved course to administer).
• Assess…