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Dental Hygienist - choose your shift
$110,240 - $128,960/Yr
Unclassified - Hamden, CT
posted 2 months ago
Full-time - Entry Level
Hamden, CT
About the position
The Dental Hygienist position at GoTu offers registered dental hygienists the flexibility to choose their shifts, work locations, and pay rates. This role is designed for those seeking to balance their professional commitments with personal preferences, allowing for a tailored work experience in the dental field.
Responsibilities
- Promotes dental health by completing dental prophylaxis, providing oral cancer screening and radiographic studies, charting conditions of decay and disease, and performing procedures in compliance with the Dental Practice Act.
- Prepares patients for dental hygiene treatment by welcoming, seating, and draping patients.
- Provides information to patients and employees by answering questions and requests.
- Maintains instrumentation for dental hygiene treatment by sharpening, sterilizing, and selecting instruments.
- Selects materials and equipment for dental hygiene visits by evaluating patients' oral health.
- Completes dental prophylaxis by cleaning deposits and stains from teeth and from beneath gum margins.
- Detects disease by completing oral cancer screening, feeling and visually examining gums, using probes to locate periodontal disease and to assess levels of recession, and exposing and developing radiographic studies.
- Arrests dental decay by applying fluorides and other cavity-preventing agents.
Requirements
- Active dental hygiene license in CT.
- Knowledge of dental procedures and terminology.
- Understanding of HIPAA regulations and ability to maintain patient confidentiality.
- Excellent communication skills to educate patients on oral health care practice.
Benefits
- Malpractice & OAI/workers compensation insurance for all temporary placement shifts.
- Full control over when and where you work and how much you are paid for your services.
- No monthly or annual minimum work requirements provides ultimate working flexibility to build your dream schedule.
- Guaranteed pay - if an office cancels within a certain period, you may still get paid at least 25% of the daily pay.
- Counter offer any available shift for more money or hours that work for you.
