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Dental Hygienist

GoTu

Overland Park, KS
1 day ago
$45.00 - $65.00

Job Description

Join GoTu as a Dental Hygienist and enjoy the flexibility of working on your terms while promoting oral health through preventive treatments and patient education. Benefit from guaranteed pay and a supportive community of dental professionals.

Key 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

Required Qualifications

  • Active dental hygiene license in KS
  • 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 & Perks

Occupational accident and malpractice insuranceFull control over when/where you work and how much you charge for your servicesNo time commitments for flexibilityExpress pay option for quick paymentGuaranteed pay with cancellation protectionAccess to educational resources and free live webinars