Gilmore Family Dentistry Dental Hygienist Pensacola, FL · Full time

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Family owned private practice providing quality dental care to the Pensacola community for over 50 years. We provide family preventative, restorative, and cosmetic dental care. We work with many local specialists to ensure our patients receive the best care possible when treatment is best addressed by referral.

Certified Dental Hygienist to perform standard preventative procedures to help patients maintain good oral health. Will also provide oral health education to patients, answer questions they may have, and help put them at ease when it come to having dental work done. Must work well within a team and being willing to help others when needed. Hourly pay will be based on experience.

Requirements:

• Active RDH license in the state of Florida
• Current CPR certification
• Available to work Monday - Thursday and half a day on select Fridays
• A team player who is kind and helpful to both patients and co-workers

Nice to Have's but not Required:

• Experience with practice management software, office uses Curve Hero
• Experience with digital imaging sensors and software

Patient Management:

• Check the daily schedule and ensure services needed for hygiene patients
• Work with Front Desk to schedule hygiene patients with efficiency
• Carefully review patient medical and dental history forms
• Accurately chart each patients periodontal health
• Provide thorough and gentle prophylaxis to patients
• Perform scaling, root planning and selective polishing for designated patients
• Provide radiographs for patients as prescribed by the dentist
• Provide topical fluoride applications for designated patients
• Communicate with patients in an understandable and professional way
• Check on patient comfort during treatment; help allay patient anxiety
• Take accurate notes on the provided treatment
• Provide patient education sessions and materials to patients

Benefits:

• Uniforms
• Participation in 401k, including up to a 6% company match and 50% coverage of the plan management fee.
• Paid Time Off - accrued monthly, prorated
• Paid Vacation Time Off - awarded annually
• Paid Observed Federal Holidays
• Discounted Dental services for employee and immediate family