Dental Assistant

Nuvia Dental Implant Center is rapidly expanding and looking for enthusiastic Dental Assistants to join our growing team. We are a leader in dental implant services, known for our exceptional patient care and innovative solutions. With over 45 locations across the country, Nuvia has been featured on major news outlets such as Yahoo Finance, ABC, and CBS. Nuvia's 50,000+ 5-star Google reviews make it an ideal career for any hard working dental assistant professional who enjoys helping patients through a life changing procedure.

• Pay: $24-$46 per hour (with bonus potential)
• $24-$30 per hour base
• Up to $2,000 monthly bonuses, averaging out to roughly $12 per hour
• Up to $2,000 quarterly bonuses, averaging out to roughly $4 per hour
• Retention bonuses up to $2,500 per year
• Closed airway surgeries: nearly all operations you assist with are closed airway, making your job easier and safer for our patients
• Robust dental leadership structure: support from onsite dental assistant lead, regional dental assistant leads, and a dental assistant operations manager
• Competitive base pay plus center performance bonuses and yearly anniversary bonus, pushing your yearly take home to a new level
• Benefits package: comprehensive health, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long-term disability, 401(K) with match, paid training, PTO, bereavement leave, parental leave, employee assistance program
• Nuvia provided scrubs: company branded scrubs, no need to buy new scrubs on your dime

The dental assistant (surgical assistant) at Nuvia Dental Implant Center plays a crucial role in assisting our surgeons and restorative dentists so they can focus on giving our patients a premium service that is safe and memorable. Our dental assistants have a full scope of responsibility from assisting in setup, surgery, taking impressions and pouring molds, X-rays to placing orders and working with our patients.

• Live company core values
• Taking impressions and pouring up molds
• Taking patient photos
• X-rays and Cone Beams
• Setting up appointments in scheduling platform
• Setting up and taking down operation rooms, ensuring that no one needs to leave the surgery room
• Placing orders for basic and implant supplies
• Adjusting and relining prosthesis
  
  Assisting the doctor during a variety of surgical implant procedures
• Delivering pre and post op instructions
• Sterilization and daily cleaning
• Managing patient expectations and delivering THE BEST patient care in the industry

• Registered Dental Assistant with all the proper certifications
• BLS certification approved by the American Heart Association or the American Red Cross
• Self Starter who works well as part of a team
• Patient-centric with good communication skills
• Outgoing and empathetic
• Flexible and a quick learner
• Great organizational skills and high level of office aptitude

Prepare the instruments and patients for surgery and meet the surgeon and CRNA to review surgery expectations with the patient. Assist the CRNA with the intubation process and assist with surgery.

Review the day's schedule and partner with your team to discuss specific patient needs.

Work efficiently and strategically to meet tight deadlines, ensuring patients receive their prosthetics within 24 hours.

Use your experience to problem solve daily, to include equipment challenges, patient delays, and any patient concerns, to keep processes running smoothly and give our patients a top tier experience.

Keep Nuvia looking and operating its best by performing circular tasks such as ordering supplies, sterilization, ensuring compliance, and handling lab requests or questions.

Once you finish making smiles for the day, complete all surgery reports. Prepare for the upcoming patients by reviewing patient charts, lab cases, and implants to create the action plan for the following day.