Dental Hygienist - Choose your own shift

Job Description

Job Description

DENTAL HYGIENIST

Location : Pittsburgh, PA

Client : GOTU

Choose your own shift

DENTAL HYGIENIST JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Promotes dental health by completing dental prophylaxis, providing oral cancer screening and radiographic studies, charting conditions of decay and disease, and performing procedures in compliance with the Dental Practice Act.
• Prepares patients for dental hygiene treatment by welcoming, seating, and draping patients.
• Provides information to patients and employees by answering questions and requests.
• Maintains instrumentation for dental hygiene treatment by sharpening, sterilizing, and selecting instruments.
• Selects materials and equipment for dental hygiene visits by evaluating patients' oral health.
• Completes dental prophylaxis by cleaning deposits and stains from teeth and from beneath gum margins.
• Detects disease by completing oral cancer screening, feeling and visually examining gums, using probes to locate periodontal disease and to assess levels of recession, and exposing and developing radiographic studies.
• Arrests dental decay by applying fluorides and other cavity-preventing agents.

DENTAL HYGIENIST JOB REQUIREMENTS

Company Description

Providence Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital provides outstanding patient care and has been recognized by U.S. News & World Report as one of the Best Regional Hospitals for heart attack and heart failure care. We are proud to have received the Women’s Choice Award in comprehensive breast care for 10 consecutive years.