Dental Hygienist Needed In LENOIR, NC on March 20, 2025

The Dental Hygienist promotes dental health by completing dental prophylaxis, periodontal therapies, providing oral cancer screening and radiographic studies, charting conditions of decay and disease and performing all procedures in compliance with practice policies as well as any applicable state and federal statutes.

Dental Hygienist Job Duties:

•       prepares treatment room for patients by adhering to prescribed procedures and protocols

•       prepares patient for dental hygiene treatment by welcoming, soothing, seating, and draping patient

•       provides information to patients and employees by answering questions and requests

•       maintains instrumentation for dental hygiene treatment by sharpening, sterilizing, and selecting instruments

•       selects materials and equipment for dental hygiene visit by evaluating patients oral health

•       completes dental prophylaxis and periodontal therapies 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

•       maintains patient appearance and ability to masticate by fabricating temporary restorations, cleaning, and polishing removable appliances, placing, carving, finishing amalgam restorations, removing cement from crowns and bridges

•       helps dentist manage dental and medical emergencies by maintaining CPR certification, emergency drugs and oxygen supply, and directory of emergency numbers

•       educates patients by giving oral hygiene and plaque control instructions and postoperative instructions, providing reminders of time of next dental hygiene visit

•       documents dental hygiene services by recording vital signs and medical and dental histories and charting in patient records

•       maintains patient confidence and protects operations by keeping information confidential

•       maintains safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations

•       protects patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols

•       ensures operation of dental equipment by completing preventive maintenance requirements, following manufacturers instructions, troubleshooting malfunctions, calling for repairs, maintaining equipment inventories, evaluating new equipment and techniques

•       maintains dental supplies inventory by checking stock to determine inventory level, anticipating needed supplies, placing, and expediting orders for supplies, and verifying receipt of supplies

•       conserves dental resources by using equipment and supplies as needed to accomplish job results

•       maintains professional state licensure and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing professional publications, establishing personal networks, participating in professional societies

•       contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed

•       complete annual HIPAA, OSHA, and Covid-19 training