DENTIST
Job Description
HealthWorks
Position Description
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ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
Patient Care:
1. Provide appropriate and optimal service to all patients including but not limited to:
* Recording patient histories
* Performing examinations of teeth, gums and related tissues
* Ordering and interpreting x-rays and other tests
* Assessing and creating patient-specific treatment plans
2. Guide and support identified patients in managing their preventive dental care and chronic conditions.
3. Ensure patients understanding of their condition, treatment, encountered results and commitment to their management plan.
4. Track symptoms that are being followed, work ups underway, or high-risk areas of patient(s) family or medical history.
5. Administer anesthetics to limit the amount of discomfort experienced by patients during procedures.
6. Diagnose diseases or abnormalities, and plan appropriate treatments.
7. Design, make, and fit prosthodontic appliances such as space maintainers, bridges, and dentures, or write fabrication instructions or prescriptions for denturists and dental technicians.
8. Fill pulp chamber and canal with endodontic materials.
9. Write prescriptions for antibiotics and other medications.
10. Treat exposure of pulp by pulp capping, removal of pulp from pulp chamber, or root canal, using dental instruments.
11. Produce and evaluate dental health educational materials.
12. Plan, organize and maintain dental health programs.
JOB REQUIREMENTS / EXPERIENCE
_Education_ _:_ Dental degree from an accredited university
_Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:_
Diagnostic procedures including initial and periodic oral examinations and pulp vitality tests.
Radiographic procedures including intraoral, bitewing and panoramic films.
Preventative procedures including prophylaxis for adults and children, nutritional counseling for the control of dental disease and oral hygiene instruction.
Restorative procedures including both amalgam and resin restorations as well as crown repair.
Oral surgery procedures including simple extractions and root removal, surgical extractions and removal of impacted teeth and residual roots as well as removal of erupted teeth and bone and/or section of tooth, tooth implantation and re-implantation, surgical exposure of impacted or un-erupted teeth to aid eruption, biopsies of hard and soft oral tissue.
Surgical Incisions including incision and draining of abscesses, removal of reactions and foreign bodies, and sequestrectomy for osteomyelitis
Repair of traumatic wounds including suturing of small recent and complicated wounds.
Adjunctive general services including anesthesia with regional block anesthesia or analgesia.
Experience: Prefer at least one year of experience as a dentist in a clinical situation, or other accepted related experience as appropriate. Prior Patient-Centered Medical Home or Federally Qualified Health Care experience is preferred.
Licenses/Certifications: Maintains in satisfactory condition, licensure and continuing education as outlined by the Wyoming State Dental Board (DDS/DMD); maintains CPR certification.
Work Schedule:
Weekdays (8-5)
Compensation Range:
TBD/Negotiable
Benefits:
Health, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance,
401K Retirement with up to 4% Matching Contribution and 3% Profit Sharing Contribution.
Paid Time Off and Extended Illness Bank.
9.5 Paid Holidays.
Compensation Points:
Loan Repayment, Continuing Medical Education, Cost of Living, Health Insurance
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