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Dental Assistant

Employer

Smiles Dental Group

Date Posted

December 23, 2024

Languages

English
  • Location Edmonton, AB
  • Earnings $32.00 to $37.00 hourly (to be negotiated)
  • Work Hours 35 to 40 hours per week
  • Position Permanent Full Time
  • Vacancies 1  Vacancy
  • Closing Date Feb 21, 2025
Job Requirements

Employer

Smiles Dental Group

Languages

English

Education

College/CEGEP

Work setting

Dental practice

Tasks

  • Prepare patients for dental examinations
  • Prepare plaster models and moulds
  • 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
  • Perform reception and clerical duties
  • Sterilize and maintain instruments and equipment
  • Educate patients concerning oral hygiene
  • Supervise students in training
  • Polish teeth and clinical crowns and apply fluoride and sealant
  • Prepare wax bite-blocks and impression trays
  • Schedule and confirm appointments
  • Perform intra-oral duties
  • Take and develop X-rays
  • Make orthodontic bands from metal and alloys
  • Record dental procedures performed on patients
  • Take preliminary impressions for diagnostic casts

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses 

  • Membership in the Canadian Dental Assistants Association
  • Registration with provincial or territorial authorities

Area of specialization

Orthodontic appliances

Work conditions and physical capabilities

  • Fast-paced environment
  • Work under pressure
  • Attention to detail
  • Combination of sitting, standing, walking

Personal suitability

  • Client focus
  • Judgement
  • Team player
  • Accurate
  • Dependability
  • Excellent oral communication
  • Excellent written communication
  • Initiative
  • Reliability

Experience

2 years to less than 3 years

Health benefits

  • Dental plan
  • Health care plan

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Interest Codes & Abilities
The Dental Assistant is part of the following larger National Occupational Classification (NOC).

Interest Codes

Dental Assistants
METHODICAL

Interest in copying information to record dental procedures performed, order dental and office supplies, prepare dental instruments and filling materials, and to invoice patients; and in taking preliminary impressions for diagnostic casts

SOCIAL

Interest in assisting dentists in patient care and treatment; and in educating patients concerning oral hygiene

OBJECTIVE

Interest in operating equipment to sterilize and maintain instruments and equipment; in taking and developing X-rays, polishing teeth and clinical crowns and applying fluoride and sealant, and to fabricating temporary crowns and restorations

Reading Interest Codes
A Quick Guide

The interest code helps you figure out if you’d like to work in a particular occupation. 

It’s based on the Canadian Work Preference Inventory (CWPI), which measures 5 occupational interests: Directive, Innovative, Methodical, Objective, and Social.

Each set of 3 interest codes for this NOC group is listed in order of importance.

A code in capital letters means it’s a strong fit for the occupation.

A code in all lowercase letters means the fit is weaker.

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