Dental Assistant Extern - Vallejo, United States - La Clinica de La Raza
Description
Who we are:
La Clínica de La Raza is a community-based health center committed to providing culturally appropriate, high-quality, and accessible health care to the diverse communities of the San Francisco Bay Area.
**:This position is only available to current Dental Assistant externs from Carrington College
DA Extern or Volunteer:
A dental assistant is expected to perform the following duties under the general supervision of a supervising licensed dentist:
- Extra-oral duties or procedures specified by the supervising licensed dentist, provided that these duties or procedures meet the definition of a basic supportive procedure.
- Operate dental radiography equipment for the purpose of oral radiography and have a radiographic safety certificate.
- Perform intraoral and extraoral photography.
- Take intraoral impressions for all nonprosthodontic appliances.
- Take facebow transfers and bite registrations.
- Place and remove rubber dams or other isolation devices.
- Place, wedge, and remove matrices for restorative procedures.
- Remove postextraction dressings after inspection of the surgical site by the supervising licensed dentist.
- Perform measurements for the purposes of orthodontic treatment.
- Cure restorative or orthodontic materials in operative site with a lightcuring device.
- Examine orthodontic appliances.
- Place and remove orthodontic separators.
- Remove ligature ties and archwires.
- After adjustment by the dentist, examine and seat removable orthodontic appliances and deliver care instructions to the patient
415 Georgia Street, Vallejo, CA 94590
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