Fatima Devi Reverente

• Providing clinical support to the Dental Practitioner, ensuring all dental instruments and equipment are available for a wide range of treatments
• Providing administrative support to the Dental Practitioners, including the preparation of statistical data and reports
• Preparing all necessary materials and instruments for before and after the dental treatment, which includes ensuring all equipment in the dental clinic function properly, disinfecting all surfaces and used instruments and disposing of all contaminated material
• Ensuring that all equipment are safe and ready for next use
• Performing certain intra – oral duties like taking preliminary dental impressions, providing oral hygiene instructions to patients etc
• (As per facility)
• Preparing patients for x-ray procedures and processing X-ray images
• Conducting daily or periodic checks and calibration of equipment
• Recognize report and advice on discrepancies in performance and initiate remedial action in the light of this information
• To ensure that the equipment is used in the correct manner to obtain optimum results
• Maintaining the integrity of clinical equipment as per manufacturers guidelines taking into consideration facilities guidelines and hygienic and sterilization rules and regulations
• Stock-Inventory Controller/ Generate purchase orders for required materials not available in dental department
• Maintaining and recording inventory statistic of supplies for dental store, rotation of stock in an orderly fashion, and eliminating outdated items
• Reporting shortage of materials to lead Dentist at earliest convenience, ordering and approving replenishments when necessary.

Perform full range functions required of a dental assistant

• Assist Dentist during examination and treatment of patients
• Prepare patient, sterilizes and disinfect instruments, set up instrument trays, and prepare materials
• Takes and records medical and dental histories and vital signs of patient
• Exposes dental diagnostics x-rays
• Assist Dentist in management of medical and dental emergencies
• Instruct patients in oral hygiene and plaque control programs
• Provides post operative instructions prescribed by Dentist
• Records treatment information in patients records
• Smoothly and swiftly transferring required instruments from the tray to the Dentist
• Preparing dental materials, composites, cements, impression materials, etc
• Knowing and using dental procedure isolation techniques
• Managing and control inventory

• Restorative cases – using light cured composites
• Endodontics (Root Canal Therapy-anterior)
• Oral Surgery – anterior and posterior extractions
• Impaction (3rd molar surgical removal)
• Prosthodontics complete denture making removable partial denture porcelain fixed bridge porcelain crowns/units Sterilization/disinfection of instruments.

• Perform full range functions required of a dental assistant/hygienist
• Perform oral prophylaxis and polishing
• Oral examinations
• Instruct patients on OHI (oral hygiene instructions)
• X-ray procedures
• Preliminary impressions
• Prepare all apparatus for attending dentist
• Appropriate equipment available based on procedure to be implemented
• Assisted for implant; periosurgery i.e
• Bone grafting; oral surgery i.e
• Exposure/removal of impacted 3rd molars and canines
• Widely assisted in fields of general dentistry, pedodontics, orthodontics, prosthodontics and aesthetic dentistry i.e
• Teeth whitening/bleaching
• Supervise equipment including repair and replacement recommendation
• Supervise daily activities of all dental assistants
• Responsible for the creation of all work schedules for dental assistants
• Supervise the process for maintaining adequate stock inventory
• Coordinate the training of all new dental departments of non-dentist personnel
• Generate purchase orders for required materials not available
• Check patients’ appointments and dentist schedule

• Perform oral examinations
• X-ray procedures – periapical and panoramic x-rays
• Perform oral prophylaxis/polishing using ultrasonic scaler
• Perform restorative cases using light cured composites
• Perform prosthodontic cases making complete denture; removable partial denture; porcelain fixed bridges, porcelain crown/units
• Perform oral surgery i.e
• Anterior and posterior extractions including impacted 3rd molar
• Sterilizing equipment (instruments using ultrasonic sterilizer and autoclave machine.