Dental Hygienist - Buffalo, United States - Dental Care Associates of Buffalo

Description

Dental care Associates of Buffalo is looking for a full or part-time dental hygienist. We are a multi doctor general practice, serving patients throughout Wright county. We offer PTO holiday pay, health insurance for full-time employees, daily commissions, along with a 401(k) profit sharing plan

Responsibilities:

• Using dental instruments to clean accretions, calcareous deposits, and stains from teeth and beneath margins of gums.
• Looking for indications of oral cancer by feeling lymph nodes under patient chins for signs of tenderness or swelling.
• Noting and reviewing patient medical history.
• Using probes to examine and locate periodontal recessed gums and other signs of gum disease.
• Recording dental decay and disease for diagnosis and treatment by dentists.
• Maintaining dental equipment and x-ray machine.
• Feeling and visually examining gums for signs of disease, sores, and other dental health issues.
• Exposing and developing x-ray film.
• Sharpening and sterilizing dental instruments.
• Promoting preventative dental care to improve patient oral health care.
• Applying fluorides and other dental decay prevention agents.
• Working with dentists and dental assistants.
• Maintaining a dental hygiene program for patients.

If you are an experienced or a new dental hygienist, please send us a résumé to