Main Areas of Responsibility:
Under the direction of the Dental Director, the Dental Hygienist provides preventive dental services and oral health education to patients and gathers patient data for use by the dentist in diagnosis and treatment planning. The position promotes dental health by completing dental prophylaxis, provides oral cancer screening, conducts radiographic studies; charts restorations, conducts periodontal packet measurements;
Additional Areas of Responsibility:
Receives patients and prepares them for dental procedures, both physically and emotionally; interviews and conducts preliminary assessment and triage of patients to determine reasons for visit, obtains dental health history and checks appropriate vitals, records data on patient’s chart;
Reviews and evaluates patient medical/dental questionnaire for drug and/or procedure contra-indicators;
Exposes, processes, and mounts x-rays both digitally and manually, evaluates radiographs for review by dental providers;