Dental Assistant

Employment Information

  • Post ID: 735689984
  • Open Date: May 5, 2025
  • Close Date: July 15, 2025
  • Organization: TORONTO FAMILY DENTAL
  • Sector: Healthcare & Social Workers
  • Business Location:Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
  • Total Views: 200
  • Duration: 0 calendar days (1 business days)
  • Last Updated: 4 hours ago
  • Job URL: https://newpeople.ca/jobs/ontario/scarborough/735689984/dental-assistant/
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Job Details

  • Experience: 2 years - 3 years
  • Job Vacancies: 1
  • Compensation: $35.00 to $38.00 per hour (To be negotiated) / 30 to 40 hours per week
  • Anticipated Start Date: As soon as possible
  • Apply by: email to [email protected], by mail
  • Education: Other trades certificate or diploma

Job Description

Tasks

  • Prepare patients for dental examinations
  • Prepare plaster models and moulds
  • Supervise dental assistants in their health care functions
  • Train other dental laboratory assistants
  • Order dental and office supplies
  • Perform administrative functions for the dental laboratory
  • Prepare dental instruments and filling materials
  • Maintain and order supplies
  • Perform reception and clerical duties
  • Sterilize and maintain instruments and equipment
  • Educate patients concerning oral hygiene
  • Finish metal framework of dentures
  • Polish teeth and clinical crowns and apply fluoride and sealant
  • Pack plastic material in moulds to form full or partial dentures
  • Perform intra-oral duties
  • Make orthodontic bands from metal and alloys
  • Record dental procedures performed on patients
  • Invoice patients for dental services
  • Polish and buff dentures
  • Fabricate and place temporary crowns and restorations
  • Take preliminary impressions for diagnostic casts

Experience and specialization

Technical expertise (dental)

  • Plastering
  • Packing
  • Waxing-up
  • Polishing
  • Assembly

Computer and technology knowledge

  • MS Excel
  • MS Outlook
  • MS Word

Equipment, eystems and controls experience

  • Medical and biomedical equipment and systems

Additional information

Work conditions and physical capabilities

  • Fast-paced environment
  • Work under pressure
  • Repetitive tasks
  • Attention to detail
  • Combination of sitting, standing, walking

Benefits

Other benefits

  • Parking available