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Dental Assistant
Posted on January 28, 2025
by Bristol Dental Clinic
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Job Sector:
Healthcare & Social Workers
Term of Employment: Full-Time
Total Views: 204
Duration: 2 calendar days (3 business days)
Last Updated: 2 days ago
Job URL: https://newworkers.ca/jobs/ontario/mississauga/810433969/dental-assistant/
Job Description
Tasks
- Prepare patients for dental examinations
- Maintain and order supplies
- Perform reception and clerical duties
- Sterilize and maintain instruments and equipment
- Educate patients concerning oral hygiene
- Polish teeth and clinical crowns and apply fluoride and sealant
- Prepare wax bite-blocks and impression trays
- Schedule and confirm appointments
- Take and develop X-rays
- Record dental procedures performed on patients
- Invoice patients for dental services
- Polish and buff dentures
- Take preliminary impressions for diagnostic casts
Experience and specialization
Technical expertise (dental)
- Plastering
- Packing
- Waxing-up
- Casting
- Polishing
- Assembly
Computer and technology knowledge
- MS Excel
- MS PowerPoint
- MS Word
Equipment, eystems and controls experience
- Medical and biomedical equipment and systems
Specialization or experience
- Specialized environmental skills and knowledge
Additional information
Security and safety
- Immunization records
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Tight deadlines
- Repetitive tasks
- Attention to detail
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Standing for extended periods
Personal suitability
- Client focus
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Flexibility
- Judgement
- Team player
- Accurate
- Dependability
- Excellent oral communication
- Excellent written communication
- Initiative
- Interpersonal awareness
- Reliability
Benefits
Other benefits
- Free parking available
- Other benefits