Description As an Affiliated Practice Dental Hygienist, you will provide preventative and restorative oral hygiene care and education to patients of all ages.
Essential Functions: - Provides clinical oral hygiene services including dental prophylaxis, scaling, root planning, sealant application, polish teeth and fluoride application, and administer local anesthesia when necessary.
- Obtains baseline oral hygiene assessment data, based upon accepted principles of oral hygiene and periodontal care.
- Assists in the oral health management of all clinic patients.
- Examines patient's surrounding tissues and teeth to determine extent of abnormal condition requiring treatment and determines dental hygiene treatment plan.
- Records patient-hygienist transactions in the patient's dental record to assure the dental record accurately and completely reflect the nature of the contact, the condition of the patie...