Registered Dental Hygienist

Job summary

Provide dental hygiene care, including assessments, scaling and root planing, imaging, anesthesia as needed, polishing, fluoride treatments, and personalized home-care instruction. Manage patient visits and records, prepare and sterilize treatment rooms, maintain supplies, and deliver excellent customer service.

Job details

Home / Registered Dental Hygienist Registered Dental Hygienist Job Description – Registered Dental Hygienist Asante Dental Centre strives to provide exceptional patient care by providing a comfortable and relaxing dental environment with a friendly dental team supported by high-technology products to help improve patient experiences and provide an enhanced standard of dental care. As an RDH at Asante Dental Centre, your duties will include: Managing patients from check-in to check-out Reviewing and updating health history with patients, taking blood pressure measurements as required, and documenting patient concerns for the doctor to review Explaining procedures that will be done and answering any questions that the patient may have regarding oral hygiene Showing before and after photos and patient education videos as required Being familiar with and able to explain services to patients, e.g., Digital x-rays, intraoral camera, VELscope, Invisalign, bleaching, etc Independently performing clinical procedures, including: Taking and mounting digital intraoral and panoramic x-rays accurately Providing scaling, root planing, and other treatments within the scope of training. Provide anaesthesia as needed for hygiene treatments. Providing each patient with periodontal evaluation and customized home care instruction Polishing and fluoride treatments Intraoral scanning Completing documentation of current day’s treatment including Akitu One Charting Chair side booking of patients for subsequent hygiene visits Complete responsibility for the tear down and set up of treatment rooms before and after every patient, including disinfection of non-sterilizable products or surfaces in the rooms. Handling all sterilization procedures, including the use of barriers as needed Providing patients with pamphlets and discussing dental treatment Asking patients for referrals and thanking them for choosing our office Making sure that the treatment rooms are clean and everything is put away before leaving for the evening Being able to work independently as a team member with limited direction and supervision Managing hygiene supplies and asking CDA to order as needed PROVIDING EXCELLENT CUSTOMER SERVICE

What you’ll do

Provide dental hygiene care, including assessments, scaling and root planing, imaging, anesthesia as needed, polishing, fluoride treatments, and personalized home-care instruction. Manage patient visits and records, prepare and sterilize treatment rooms, maintain supplies, and deliver excellent customer service.

Requirements

The posting does not specify formal education, licensing, or years-of-experience requirements. The role calls for the ability to perform dental hygiene procedures independently, communicate effectively with patients, maintain accurate documentation, and follow room preparation and sterilization procedures.

Listed skills

• Clinical care · Preferred

Other relevant skills

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• Patient Care
• Patient Communication
• Health History Review
• Blood Pressure Measurement
• Digital X-Rays
• Panoramic X-Rays
• Scaling
• Root Planing
• Anesthesia Administration
• Periodontal Evaluation
• Oral Hygiene Education
• Fluoride Treatments
• Intraoral Scanning
• Dental Charting
• Sterilization
• Infection Control

Job areas

• Healthcare
• Customer Service & Support

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