Upper Great Lakes Family Health is seeking a Dental Therapist to provide dental services – in the clinic, and in the community (i.e., schools, nursing homes).
The Dental Therapist will work in collaboration with a Dentist within the Scope of Practice:
Evaluative Procedures
- Identifying oral and systemic conditions that require evaluation or treatment by dentists, physicians, or other health care professionals and managing referrals
- Comprehensive charting of the oral cavity
- Administering and exposing radiographic images
- Pulp vitality testing
Preventive Procedures
- Dental prophylaxis including subgingival scaling or polishing procedures
- Applying topical preventative or prophylactic agents, including fluoride varnish, silver diamine fluoride and other fluoride treatments, antimicrobial agents, and pit and fissure sealants
- Providing oral health instruction and disease prevention education, including nutritional counseling and dietary analysis
- Fabricating athletic mouth guards
Restorative Procedures
- Preparation and placement of direct restoration in primary and permanent teeth
- Fabrication and placement of single-tooth temporary crowns
- Preparation and placement of preformed crowns on primary teeth
- Indirect and direct pulp capping on permanent teeth
- Indirect pulp capping on primary teeth
Periodontal and Surgical Procedures
- Changing periodontal dressings
- Suturing and suture removal
- Nonsurgical extractions of periodontally diseased permanent teeth with mobility +3, unless the tooth is unerupted, impacted, fractured, or must be sectioned for removal
- Simple extraction of erupted primary teeth
- Placement and removal of space maintainers
Palliative and Other Procedures
- Minor adjustments and repairs on removable prostheses
- Applying desensitizing medication or resin
- Emergency palliative treatment of dental pain related to a care or service described in this subsection
- Dispensing and administering via the oral or topical route nonnarcotic analgesics and anti-inflammatory and antibiotic medications as prescribed by a health care professional
- Administering local anesthetic and nitrous oxide analgesia
- Performing other related services and functions authorized by the supervising dentist and for which the DT is trained
Must be have a valid, Michigan Dental Therapist license (or ability to get one upon hire).
If you are interested, contact Shawn Beaudry: [email protected]