- Education :
- Expérience :
Education
- College, CEGEP or other non-university certificate or diploma from a program of 1 year to 2 years
- Dental assisting / assistant
- or equivalent experience
Work setting
Dental practice
Tasks
- Prepare patients for dental examinations
- Prepare plaster models and moulds
- Supervise dental assistants in their health care functions
- Train other dental laboratory assistants
- Cast gold or metal alloys for bridges and denture bases
- Order dental and office supplies
- Perform administrative functions for the dental laboratory
- Prepare dental instruments and filling materials
- Maintain and order supplies
- Mould wax over dentures set-up
- Perform reception and clerical duties
- Sterilize and maintain instruments and equipment
- Educate patients concerning oral hygiene
- Finish metal framework of dentures
- Polish teeth and clinical crowns and apply fluoride and sealant
- Schedule and confirm appointments
- Perform intra-oral duties
- Take and develop X-rays
- Record dental procedures performed on patients
- Polish and buff dentures
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses
Registration with provincial or territorial authorities
Equipment, eystems and controls experience
Medical and biomedical equipment and systems
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
Experience
1 year to less than 2 years
Health benefits
- Dental plan
- Vision care benefits
- Durée de l'emploi : Permanent
- Langue de travail : Anglais
- Heures de travail : 30 to 40 hours per week
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