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Job Description
Clean teeth and examine oral areas, head, and neck for signs of oral disease. May educate patients on oral hygiene, take and develop x rays, or apply fluoride or sealants.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 29-2021.00
- The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 73,440.00
- The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 35.00
- Currently, there are 204,990 people on this job
Also Known As…
- Registered Dental Hygienist, Part Time Clinical Faculty
- Registered Dental Hygienist (RDH)
- Pediatric Dental Hygienist
- Implant Coordinator
- Hygienist
- Education Coordinator
- Dental Hygienist, Mobile Coordinator
- Dental Hygienist
- Oral Hygienist
- Dental Nurse
Tasks for “Dental Hygienists”
- Clean calcareous deposits, accretions, and stains from teeth and beneath margins of gums, using dental instruments.
- Feel lymph nodes under patient's chin to detect swelling or tenderness that could indicate presence of oral cancer.
- Maintain dental equipment and sharpen and sterilize dental instruments.
- Expose and develop x-ray film.
- Remove excess cement from coronal surfaces of teeth.
- Record and review patient medical histories.
- Place and remove rubber dams, matrices, and temporary restorations.
- Feel and visually examine gums for sores and signs of disease.
- Examine gums, using probes, to locate periodontal recessed gums and signs of gum disease.
- Remove sutures and dressings.
- Apply fluorides or other cavity preventing agents to arrest dental decay.
- Administer local anesthetic agents.
- Provide clinical services or health education to improve and maintain the oral health of patients or the general public.
- Maintain patient recall system.
- Conduct dental health clinics for community groups to augment services of dentist.
- Make impressions for study casts.
- Chart conditions of decay and disease for diagnosis and treatment by dentist.
Related Technology & Tools
- Dental needles
- Air-driven dental polishers
- Autoclaves
- Hollow handle scalars
- Motor-driven dental polishers
- Periapical films
- Film badges
- Saliva ejectors
- Portable dental x ray units
- Dental x ray machines
- Dental chairs
- Nitrous oxide administration equipment
- Microscope slides
- Instrument sharpening devices
- Aspirating syringes
- Calculus explorers
- Mechanical stethoscopes
- Rotating caps
- Suctioning equipment
- Dental polishers
- Ultrasonic scalers
- Digital cameras
- Dental lasers
- Lead aprons
- Panoramic dental x ray units
- Matrices/matrix retainers
- Digital dental x ray units
- Angle formers
- Bite wings
- Intraoral dental cameras
- Ultrasonic sterilization units
- Rubber dams
- Computer scanners
- Mercury blood pressure units
- Cotton pliers
- Impression trays
- Dental curettes
- Solid handle scalars
- Electronic calculus detectors
- Oxygen administration equipment
- Electronic blood pressure units
- Manual blood pressure cuffs
- Personal computers
- Retraction cords
- Air abrasion equipment
- Caries detection aids
- Hand scalers
- Caries explorers
- Autoscalars
- Amalgam carriers
- Periodontal probes
- Nabers furcation probes
- Neodymium-doped Yttrium Aluminum Garnet Nd:YAG dental lasers
- Dental x ray development equipment
- Mechanical mixers
- Cavitron equipment
- Pulp testers
- Notebook computers
- Air/water syringes
- Dental digital radiology software
- Email software
- Scheduling software
- Microsoft Excel
- Voice-activated perio charting software
- Henry Schein Dentrix
- Inventory management software
- Dental billing software
- Dental office management software
- Dental imaging software
- Dental clinical records software
- Microsoft Office
- Word processing software
- Dental charting software
- Web browser software
- Microsoft Word
- Dental intra-oral imaging software