HCA Solutions is seeking a qualified Dental Assistant for the Federal Medical Center Lexington, KY. This is a contracted W-2, long-term placement position. The work hours are full-time Monday-Friday, between the hours of 6:30 am and 2:30 pm. with a 30-minute unpaid lunch.

Job Responsibilities:
Assists Dental Officer in dental specialty sections, such as restorative, oral surgery, periodontics, prosthetics, examinations, and triage of emergency cases.

Retrieves patient's records, escorts patient to dental treatment area, seats and prepares patient for Dental Officer, assists by preparing dental instruments, dental materials, drugs, and medications, passes instruments, retracts tissues, irrigates oral cavity, and helps to maintain a dry field.

Assist in dental health education, makes necessary entries on dental treatment chart (both electronic and paper records), and records dental charting.

Triage dental emergencies, obtains diagnostic quality intraoral and extra oral radiographs using standard and digital radiography while minimizing radiation exposure and processes and saves digital radiographs to patient's electronic and paper medical record. Placing and removing dental packings and removing sutures.

Placing and finishing all types of dental restorations, temporary and permanent, including bases and liners.

Responsible for the disinfection and sterilization procedures for the dental department.

Prepares reports for the Infection Control department.

Answering phones, manage ingoing and outgoing mail, maintaining files, preparing treatment schedules, taking inventory, preparing purchase forms for needed supplies, stocking supplies, purging expired product, compiling reports, and other administrative duties assigned by the Chief Dental Officer.

Ensures accurate invoicing and billing from dental lab, performing oversight on MSDS for accuracy, preparing charting forms and also counts and logs needles and instruments twice daily.

Job Qualifications:
-The Dental Assistant must be registered in the state of Kentucky or possess a letter from the Kentucky Board of Dentistry that states your training meets or exceeds Kentucky requirements.

-Must have current certification in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).

-Bilingual oral communication skills are desirable.

-The Dental Assistant must be totally familiar with four-handed dentistry with respect to all technical methods and procedures as practiced in this institution.

-Must have an excellent working knowledge of instruments, types of composite materials, and methods used for the purpose of making impressions.

-Must have a working knowledge of commonly used medication and doses for dental infections and pain as preferred by the dentist.

-Must possess skills in expanded dental functions to permit direct patient care by applying rubber dams, placing matrix bands, inserting and contouring filling materials, fabricating and cementing temporary crowns, placing surgical dressings, removing sutures, providing postoperative instructions, instructing patients on proper dental disease control techniques, and taking impressions for study casts.