Dental HygienistAkahi Associates

Overview

Location: Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson

Hours of Performance: The performance hours of the MTF are as follows: In general, all Dental Clinics are open between the hours of 0600-1700, Monday-Friday. Routine Clinic hours may vary by location.

Regular dental services may be scheduled between 0600 hrs. (6:00 a.m.) and 2200 (10:00 p.m.) hrs. Monday through Friday, excluding U.S. Federal holidays. Depending on mission requirements, services may be required on weekends.

Pay: $69.22/hr + Health & Wellness $5.09/hr worked (in lieu of benefits)

Benefits: Vest vacation, sick leave, holiday leave, Life, Accidental Death and Dismemberment, Short Term Disability

Optional Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(K) matching with employee participation in 401(K) plan

Responsibilities

• Examine patient's oral cavity to include mouth, throat, and pharynx, and record conditions of teeth and surrounding tissues.
• Refer patients to dentist who have abnormalities to include cavities, defective fillings, suspicious growths, or periodontal disease.
• Apply desensitizing and other topical agents to treat abnormalities to include gingivitis and oral ulceration.
• Instruct patients, individually and in groups, in proper oral hygiene care using materials to include teeth models, displays, slides, toothbrushes, dental floss, disclosing tablets and mirrors.
• Demonstrate proper techniques of brushing, flossing, and use of necessary periodontal aids.
• Explain the common causes of tooth decay and its relationship to general diet.
• Take impressions and construct sports/safety mouth guards and soft night guards for vital bleaching.
• Polish restorations and apply pit and fissure sealants.
• Chair side dental assisting when directed by the OIC of the dental clinic.
• Record patients treated.
• Check and maintain instruments to insure working condition.
• Clean, sharpen, and sterilize instruments.
  Patient Workload, Readiness, and Scheduling.
• Utilizes the Corporate Dental Application to enter patient specific workload and readiness status and also for patient scheduling.