Dental Assistant (Ortho)

Company Core Purpose, Core Values

Shine Ortho Studio is part of Dental Excellence Group - a growing, privately held multi-million company that offers patient-focused, high-quality dentistry in the Northwest Ohio area. There are over 100 employees, including doctors, hygienists, clinical assistants, and business and marketing support teams. The company’s mission is to create a place where dental care is so friendly, comfortable, and convenient, it completely changes the way people think about dentistry. 

The practice has six core values; a teamwork focus, a patients first mentality, with the patients’ comfort and care our #1 priority. We value kindness and compassion, both within our team and with our patients and doing the right thing, even if it means correcting our mistakes. We also value being your best, challenging all team members to meet their God given potential in attitude, skill, and service. Our final core value is making every minute count, driving performance and efficiency.

Mission of Role

The Dental Assistant reports to the Practice Administrator and the Orthodontist. The Mission of the Dental Assistant is to create a relationship with patients, assisting the Orthodontist to increase production, assist the Orthodontist in the bonding/debonding of braces, making adjustments, seating appliances, and ensure that the patients treatment remains on schedule by scheduling back each patient in treatment for their next visit. The Dental Assistant must be knowledgeable about dentistry and orthodontics. The Dental Assistant must be able to work with the Orthodontist in a wider variety of orthodontic procedures.

Key Responsibilities

• Seating patient and provide patient comfort
• Updating patient health histories if needed and update the Orthodontist of any changes
• Be completely prepared for procedure prior to the Orthodontist coming in treatment room
• Assisting chair side with dentist with a wide variety of orthodontic procedures
• Taking x-rays
• Checking to make sure that all lab cases are here and logging them in Easy RX
• Clinical notes completed each day in patients WAVE chart
• Effective knowledge and use of the iTero, scanning patients in a timely manner (under 7 minutes to scan)
• Taking impressions, pouring up impressions and lab work
• Ensure that the lab area is clean, organized and adheres to OSHA compliance standards
• Making retainers and trimming appropriately 
• Some independent work with patients 
• Ordering list is updated for supplies needed and putting supplies away as well as stocking rooms
• Patient education about procedures
• Cleaning and setting up rooms
• Sterilizing instruments and overall upkeep/organization of sterilization area
• Equipment maintenance and upkeep
• Other responsibilities not listed such as open communication, Level 10 individual Rocks

Key Competencies

• Customer Focus
• Good oral communication
• Team player
• Organization/planning
• Resourcefulness/Initiative
• Excellence
• Adaptable
• Likability
• Stress management
• Listening
• Integrity
• Intelligence
• Assertiveness
• Enthusiasm/passion