Lead Dental Surgical Assistant – Surgical Sciences

Come join the staff at OU HSC and become a part of Oklahoma’s premier research university which leads the state in education and career opportunities. OU HSC is one of only four comprehensive academic health centers in the nation with seven professional colleges. We are currently building world-class institutes for the treatment of diabetes and cancer. We are looking for a Lead Dental Surgical Assistant to join the Surgical Sciences team! This position serves as a lead dental surgical assistant and unit leader: developing staff schedules, training new staff, and monitoring staff performance during surgical procedures.

Duties:

• Provides surgical assistance to faculty, residents, and dental students and supervises other dental staff
• Assists surgeon with the placement of implants during surgical procedures
• Prepares patients for procedures with proper monitors for sedation
• Reads and notates monitor readings from the procedure
• Prepares surgical trays with instrumentation for basic extractions, IV extractions, biopsies, and implants
• Also prepares trays with needed materials such as anesthesia, implants, bonding agents, bone grafting, and collagen membrane
• Sterilizes instruments
• Prepares surgical rooms for the proper procedures
• Performs a wide range of tasks such as providing patient care, preparing and sterilizing instrumentation, taking x-rays, maintaining records, consent forms, and other documentation, and performing basic administrative office procedures
• Maintains awareness of emergency situations and responds according to departmental policy
• Recovers patients from sedations, and cleans/sanitizes rooms after patient treatment
• Continues dental surgical education by attending training sessions to learn concepts of sterile procedures, sterilization, radiology, dental record keeping, fire and safety procedures

Education: High School Diploma / GED

Experience: 36 months experience in Oral Surgery

Certifications:

• Radiology Certification
• Nitrous Oxide Certification
• Dental Anesthesia Assistant National Certification (DAANCE)
• Basic Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)

Skills:

• Able to keep hand and arm steady while moving arm or while holding arm and hand in one position
• Able to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate or assemble very small objects
• Able to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine to exact positions
• Able to bend, stretch, twist and/or reach with your body, arms and/or legs
• Must possess good multi-limb coordination i.e. the ability to coordinate two or more limbs while sitting or standing
• Must possess good trunk strength i.e. the ability to use abdominal or lower back muscles to support part of the body continuously or repeatedly over time
• without giving out or fatiguing
• Able to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information
• Good manual dexterity required to enable safe, skillful use of instruments while working in the mouth

Working Conditions:

• Physical: Standing for long periods of time.Manual dexterity.Speaking, bending, and reaching.
• Environmental: Exposure to infectious diseases and radiation from x-ray.

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