Dentist - Kent County, United States - DelDOT

Description

Introduction

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Summary Statement

Responsible for dental personnel compliance with local, state, and federal regulations, protocols, procedures, best practices related to providing dental treatment, education, and supervision. Designs, develops, reviews, and implements dental department policies, protocols, and procedures that follow the most current accepted professional standards. Search for grant opportunities, prepare and submit grants, develop goals, objectives, and quality measures for activities. Act as liaison and lead for Oral Health Coalition or committees as assigned. Participating in community-based screening and prevention programs and other preventive dental activities.

Essential Functions

Essential functions are fundamental, core functions common to all positions in the class series and are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all job duties for any one position in the class. Since class specifications are descriptive and not restrictive, incumbents can complete job duties of similar kind not specifically listed here.

Performs dental examinations of teeth and surrounding tissue utilizing x-rays and medical history records to determine dental treatment needs.

Provides dental services including but not limited to cleaning, scaling, bonding, fillings, extractions, restorations, oral surgery, pulp therapy for root canal treatment, simple bridgework, crown work, partial dentures, and installs space maintainers and prepares procedures for orthodontic appliances.

Prescribes and dispenses medication as required.

Administers local anesthesia, analgesia and sedation.

Supervises, trains and evaluates clinic staff.

Writes statistical and/or evaluative reports.

Provides emergency dental services to members of the community.

Job Requirements

JOB REQUIREMENTS for Dentist
Applicants must have education, training and/or experience demonstrating competence in each of the following areas:

Possession of a Delaware Dentist license or eligibility for a Delaware license.