General Dentist

Overview

The General Dentist serves as a practicing dentist who performs a full range of professional dental procedures in connection with the treatment of commonly encountered dental diseases or dental health problems requiring standard corrective - restorative - or preventive measures.

• VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package
• Work Schedule:
  
  Variable work Schedule (Intermittent Hours)
  
  NOTE:
  
  Shifts may vary depending on patient care needs
• Major duties include - but are not limited to:
  The General Dentistry shall be proficient in all aspects of general dentistry including the ability to perform selected specialty services
• Specifically - the provider should possess the expertise and competency to perform the following:
  Make oral and radiographic examinations of the oral cavity
• Diagnose pathological or irregular oral conditions
• Administer local anesthesia
• Perform routine and complex restoration of teeth
• Perform simple and complex extractions of teeth
• Perform alveoloplasty and other routine surgical procedures
• Perform prosthetic dentistry to include immediate dentures - full dentures - partial dentures - crowns and fixed bridge work
• Perform routine endodontic procedures on single and multi-canal teeth
• Perform routine and surgical periodontal procedures
• The scope of practice that a specific provider may perform is defined through the medical center credentialing and privileging process.