- Position Summary:
- Develops a rapport with patients striving to build a dentist-patient partnership that facilitates marked familiarity with patients' medical and treatment history, care needs, and psychosocial factors as a means to manage patient's risk factors and improve patient outcomes.
- Develops a plan of care for each patient including: complete medical history, dental examination, diagnosis, appropriate treatment and/or referral, including hospitalization where necessary.
- Stresses the importance of preventive dental care measures.
- Confers with consulting physicians, nurse, patients, and patients' families concerning treatment and care of patients.
- Establishes an effective working relationship with public and private dentists and other clinical care referral resources.
- Attends all required staff meetings and participates in the community health center's Q/A program.
- Performs other necessary duties as required by the community health center to meet the needs of providing dental health care.
- Reviews medical histories and examines patients who visit the facility seeing dental services.
- Uses all available resources in diagnosis and treatment, such as laboratory and radiological testing, in an appropriate and cost efficient manner.
- Diagnosis dental disorders and administers dental treatment services to patients.
- Refers those cases that require specialist services, but maintains responsibility, assuring that continuity of care is provided.
- Provides primary, preventive, and episodic/emergency care to patients.
- Directs coordination of care based on patient's health, treatment, and social needs.
- Completes all records and reports as assigned.
- Provides dental supervision to support staff in implementing the plan of dental care.
- Supervises dentist extenders and profession students during clinical rotations.
- Provides encounter information necessary for billing purposes.
- Participates in the development and implementation of a regularly updated quality assurance plan for the organization.
- Participates in the Health Promotion/Disease Prevention activities required by the U. S. Public Health Service.
- Ensures an appropriate environment for the administration of health care by keeping all equipment and work areas in a clean, safe, and orderly fashion.
- In performing job duties, may be exposed to blood and body fluids, hazardous chemicals, operating technical equipment and prolonged standing.
- Performs all other duties as assigned.
- Licensed to practice dentistry in the State of South Carolina.
- Current Basic Life Support (BLS) and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) certificate.
- Must maintain DEA and controlled substance registration in good standing.
- Graduate of an accredited dental school with a DDS or DMD degree.
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