Job Description

Are you a skilled dental professional dedicated to promoting oral health and hygiene? We’re seeking a motivated Dental Hygienist to join our team and play a crucial role in providing top-notch preventive dental care to our patients.

As a Dental Hygienist with our practice, you’ll have the opportunity to work closely with our dental team to deliver comprehensive dental hygiene services. Your responsibilities will include conducting thorough cleanings, performing oral assessments, and educating patients on proper oral hygiene techniques. With your expertise and attention to detail, you’ll help our patients achieve and maintain healthy smiles while fostering a welcoming and supportive environment within our dental office.

If you’re passionate about improving oral health and enhancing patient satisfaction, we’d love to have you on board!

Dental Hygienist Duties & Responsibilities:

• Cleaning accretions, calcareous deposits, and stains of teeth and beneath gum borders with dental equipment.
• By touching lymph nodes under patients’ chins for evidence of soreness or swelling, doctors can look for signs of mouth cancer.
• Making a note of and evaluating the patient’s medical history.
• Dental decay and disease are recorded in order for dentists to diagnose and treat them.
• Keeping the dental equipment and x-ray machine in good working order.
• Examining and feeling the gums for symptoms of disease, sores, and other dental problems.
• X-ray film exposure and development
• Dental instruments are sharpened and sterilized.
• To improve patient oral health, promote preventative dental treatment.
• Fluoride and other decay-prevention chemicals are used.
• Collaboration with dentists and dental hygienists.
• Maintaining a patient dental hygiene regimen.

Dental Hygienist Requirements:

• An associate’s degree in hygiene from a recognized institution is required.
• Hygiene license issued by the state of Arizona
• CPR certification is current.
• Hepatitis B immunization is current.
• Possess the ability to give local anesthetics.
• Possessing the ability to use an x-ray machine.
• Excellent communication skills (verbal, written, and interpersonal).
• Comfortable with a variety of computer chores.
• Oral hygiene and dental health are topics on which they are well-versed.

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