REPRESENTATIVE DUTIES

• Seats and drapes patients; adjusts chair.
• Lays out dental instruments and supplies.
• Hands instruments to dentist.
• Retract a patient's cheek, tongue, or other parts of tissues during a dental procedure.
• Place and remove a rubber dam.
• Conduct a mouth-mirror oral inspection, reporting observations to the supervising dentist.
• Remove debris as is normally created and accumulated during or after procedures by the dentist by the use of vacuum devices, compressed air, mouth washes, and water.
• Provide any assistance, including the placement of material in a patient's oral cavity in response to the specific direction of a licensed dentist who is actually performing a dental procedure on the patient.
• Removal of post-extraction dressings.
• Removal of sutures.
• Placement of matrix retainers for alloy and composite restorations after a dentist has prepared the cavity.
• Take impressions for study casts.
• Removal of excess cement after a dentist has placed a permanent or temporary inlay, crown, bridge, appliance, or orthodontic bands with hand instruments only.
• Place non-aerosol and non-caustic topical anesthetics.
• Complete toothbrush prophies for minors.
• Patient education in oral hygiene.
• Take, expose, and develop radiographs.
• Take intra-oral and extra-oral photographs
• Take and record blood pressure and vital signs
• Relate pre- and post-operative instructions and;
• Monitoring of nitrous oxide/oxygen unit.
• Creates and maintains recording of client files and statistics.
• Maintains patient confidentiality at all times.
• Assists with registration and data collection for QI and statistical reporting, processes appropriate documents for new clients including intake forms and exit interviews.
• Sterilize instruments and equipment.
• Maintain dental chair water bottles daily.
• Replace solid collector and shock waterline, once weekly
• Responsible for daily upkeep and general maintenance of dental equipment.
• Update SDS binder as needed.
• Maintains current dental logs.
• Refer clients to appropriate community or state resources, health agencies, social agencies, private and public health professionals and follow up to ensure services received.
• Records accurately findings dictated by dentists on dental charts.
• Provides education to individuals and/or groups on oral hygiene procedures.
• Participates in dental health projects involving dental health education, demonstration, and promotion.
• Assist with completing, filing, and follow up on applications or documentation for health or social services i.e. insurance applications.
• Encourages clients to share information pertaining to traditional practices they are using and documents in electronic dental record (EDR).
• Maintain dental and office supply inventory and replenish as necessary.
• Attend training as requested and participate in case review, program development, and implementation.
• Greets all patients and visitors in a prompt, courteous and helpful manner.
• Answer phones, schedules appointments according to type of procedure and duration of appointment and participates in registration and checkouts patients
• Update patient account information in HKH Electronic Record at every visit.
• Verifies patient insurance coverage eligibility at every scheduled appointment.
• Determine copay amount to be collected based on patient’s insurance plan prior to scheduled services.
• Reminder appointment calls according to HKH assignment.
• Maintains daily balancing of cash drawer and follows end of day cash close procedures.
• Ensures timely input of patient data into HKH Electronic Medical Records with consistency and accuracy.
• Maintain a safe, clean, and confidential working environment consistent with OSHA, HIPAA, and HKH standards.
• Performs other duties as assigned and accepts such responsibility.

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Skills/Knowledge, Education, Training and Experience

Position Environment

Performance Requirements

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  Courteous, honest and professional at all times.

• Able to communicate and relate well with physicians, clinical support staff and other HKH employees.

• Able to provide innovative input into the development of the clinic and its processes.

• Maintains appropriate licensure and certification including meeting and/or exceeding CME requirements.

• Efficient, organized and accurate.