Dental Assistant

Dental Assistant

The James J. Peters VA Medical Center is looking to recruit for a Dental Assistant for Dental Service. The position entails a wide range of intra-oral dental procedures and provides chair-side assistance in the clinic and operating room setting. This is an open continuous announcement until December 31, 2025. The initial cut-off date for referral of eligible applications will be October 29, 2025. Eligible applications received after that date will be referred on a bi-weekly basis.

Responsibilities include : assisting with, performing, and educating patients regarding intra-oral procedures associated with various phases of restorative, periodontal, endodontic, and oral surgery procedures. Some major duties include maintaining dental equipment in a clean and operative condition, maintaining supply levels, providing 4-handed dentistry, supporting and following all infectious disease policies, providing patient education, taking preliminary medical histories and vital signs, recording information related to the medical and dental history, making appointments, handling telephone, taking impressions for study casts, and maintaining current required training.

Additional duties include : applying topical anticariogenic agents to teeth, aiding in tooth shade selection, placing and removing matrix bands, selecting and pre-fitting provisional crowns, removing temporary cement, applying desensitizing agents to teeth, removing sutures, maintaining periodontal instrumentation and supplies, removing protective surgical dressings, placing and removing rubber dam, maintaining entire inventory for endodontic instrument, performing the full range of dental radiography, taking radiographs, providing instruction to newly assigned personnel, and assisting dentist in all oral surgical procedures.