Our client, a leading Dental Care provider that offers emergency dental care and treatments for periodontal disease, extractions, root canals etc is seeking an enthusiastic, goal-driven, and dedicated professional with a strong sense of integrity to fill this vacant position.

Job Title - Dental Assistant

Location - Ogbojo, East Legon

Work Schedule: - Monday- Saturday 8:30am till 6pm (+occasionally last Sunday of the month).

Job Summary:

The Dental Assistant supports the dentist in delivering safe, efficient, and high-quality dental care. This role includes preparing treatment rooms, assisting during procedures, sterilizing instruments, maintaining patient comfort, and ensuring the clinical area runs smoothly and hygienically.

Job Description:

· Run the orthodontic marketing (e.g set up posters, brochures, photo board, Facebook, instagram posts)

· Identify patients with potential orthodontic need

· Assist with the orthodontic screening

· Assist at the 1st consultation

· Take intra / Extra oral photos

· Take pan/ceph

· Take growth wrist x-ray

· Take impressions or intra-oral scan for models

· Take progress records / Pictures

· Take final records

· Import records

· Prepare and print forms (Patient Consultation Report, Consent Form, Contract)

· Assist with 2nd consultation

· Treatment Discussions

· Place spacers / Size bands

· Cement bands / Re-cement bands

· Order appliances after patients accept treatment

· Fill out lab order forms /Work with ortho labs

· Prepare bracketing set up

· Assist with bracketing

· Put on indirect / direct bonding brackets

· Size archwires / Tie in archwires / Retie archwires for reactivation

· Fit functional appliances

· Change elastics / Put on power chains

· Place open / closed coils / Insert split hooks / Bond cleats

· Discuss orthodontic emergencies like loose brackets and poking wires (view the Orthodontic Emergencies Guide)

· Assist with removing bands, brackets, archwires, and cements

· Fabricate in-office clear retainers

· Fit retainers

· Sterilize and care for instruments

· Set up, order, and maintain inventory (8 supplies you’ll need to start ortho cases)

· Encourage and manage patients

· Talk to patients about referring their friends and family members who are seeking ortho treatment

· Check retainers for the patient in follow-up appointments

· Manage Schedule and appointments

· Answer dm’s / calls

· Teeth-whitening service

· Scaling and Polishing

· General Patient Service

· Any other activity assigned by Supervisors and management

· Tidying and cleaning the dental surgery.

· Advising patients on oral hygiene.

Minimum Requirements & Qualification

· Candidate must have prior experience in a similar role within a dental, medical, or customer-service environment.