Overview
Languages
English
Education
- College/CEGEP
Experience
1 year to less than 2 years
Work setting
- Dental practice
Responsibilities
Tasks
- Prepare patients for dental examinations
- Train and supervise other dental technicians or dental laboratory assistants
- Order dental and office supplies
- Perform administrative functions for the dental laboratory
- Prepare dental instruments and filling materials
- 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
- Pack plastic material in moulds to form full or partial dentures
- Perform intra-oral duties
- 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
Supervision
- 1 to 2 people
Credentials
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses
- Certification by the National Dental Assisting Examining Board
Experience and specialization
Technical expertise (dental)
- Polishing
Computer and technology knowledge
- MS Excel
- MS Word
Additional information
Security and safety
- Bondable
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Tight deadlines
- Repetitive tasks
- Physically demanding
- Manual dexterity
- Attention to detail
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Sitting
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Standing for extended periods
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Large workload
Personal suitability
- Client focus
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Flexibility
- Judgement
- Team player
- Accurate
- Dependability
- Excellent oral communication
- Excellent written communication
- Initiative
- Interpersonal awareness
- Reliability