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Dental Hygienist

GoTu

Colorado, CO
2 days ago
$50.00 - $90.00/hour

Job Description

Join GoTu as a Dental Hygienist and take control of your career with flexible scheduling, competitive pay, and the opportunity to work on your terms while promoting oral health.

Key Responsibilities

  • Promotes dental health by completing dental prophylaxis, providing oral cancer screening and radiographic studies, charting conditions of decay and disease
  • 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 CO
  • 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 allows payment within a day of working the shiftGuaranteed payCancellation protection up to 4 days prior to your shift with guaranteed payAccess to educational resources and free live webinars